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The Old Dominion University Shooter Has Been ID'd and It Looks Like Islamic Terrorism

Amy Curtis | March 12, 2026 3:15 PM

Earlier, we reported on a shooting at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. That shooting wounded two individuals and the shooter is deceased.

Now we reportedly have the identity of the shooter: Mohamed Jalloh. This is the same Mohamed Jalloh who was previously convicted of supporting ISIL.

Jalloh was arrested in 2016, according to a press release from the Department of Justice, "attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).  According to the complaint, Jalloh is alleged to have attempted to provide services by assisting in the procurement of weapons to be used in what he believed was going to be an attack on U.S. soil committed in the name of ISIL.  In addition, the complaint alleges that Jalloh attempted to provide material support to ISIL by providing money to assist in the facilitation of individuals seeking to join ISIL."

Suspect dead after ramming vehicle into Michigan synagogue, 'active shooting incident': police

Michigan State Police are responding to an "active shooting" at Temple Israel, a Reform Jewish synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan. The shooting unfolded at about 12:30 p.m. local time Thursday.

And who’s giving these terrorists aid and comfort? Here are two of them:

Democrats Vote to Continue Schumer Shutdown Amidst Terror Attacks, Chaos at Airports

The Democrats once again voted Thursday to keep the partial government shutdown going and refused to restore funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

These are the same people who threw open the border to unscreened, unvetted people from around the world and kept it open for four years. Combine that with their so-far-successful effort to disable Homeland Security and one could be excused for suspecting that they are actively hoping, even working for, massive terrorist attacks which they and their media monkeys will blame on Trump.

(One) sale reported today as of this writing; maybe more in the next 50 minutes?

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107 Stonehedge Drive North, listed at $1.650 million, sold for $2. 1957 construction, last updated in 1999, so some work is probably due. My personal preference would be to live on the eastern side of town, but the King Merritt development (a variation of the “AnnJim” naming practice) is very nice: one-acre lots, quiet streets, and not all that far from downtown Greenwich, although Tod’s Point would be a hike. I get its appeal.

A reader asked yesterday whether I knew of any owners who’d stayed put for decades and then sold for millions, and this is probably one of them: the sellers purchased it in 1968 for, I’m sure, far less than they sold it for today.

If you’ve ever wondered (and I know you haven't) why Democrats and NGOs fought so hard to demonize Elon Musk and DOGE, wonder no more

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Day care, home health care, interpreter services, “learing” centers, food stamps, disability/workman’s comp, and on,and on and on – we’ll leave out the industrial/military complex, but that’s certainly part of it — all rife with fraud, and all ignored, even encouraged by the states and cities, especially the blue ones. Here’s just another example:

Inside the 90 minute city hall lockup before LA approved $177M for activist groups

The mystery behind a 90-minute closed-door meeting at Los Angeles City Hall is now coming into focus.

Before approving a $177 million taxpayer windfall for tenant-rights groups, Los Angeles City councilmembers were warned about a problem that has quietly been building inside City Hall for years: missing receipts, weak oversight and unanswered questions about how earlier public funds were spent.

The contracts ultimately passed in a 12–1 vote, with Councilmember John Lee casting the lone dissent.

But the closed session with City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto signaled deeper concerns about the way hundreds of millions of dollars tied to the city’s eviction defense system have been administered.

When the council returned to open session, Feldstein Soto made clear the issue was not about whether tenants should receive legal representation.

“There is absolutely no chance that this city’s tenant eviction defense program, or right-to-counsel program, is in any jeopardy,” Feldstein Soto told councilmembers. “The issues raised have nothing to do with that. What is at stake is how it is administered, and whether we are handing $177 million in a block grant to specific providers.”

The funding package sends the largest share, $106.6 million, to the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles(LAFLA) to run eviction defense services.

Another $42.1 million goes to the Southern California Housing Rights Center, while the Liberty Hill Foundation will receive $21.7 million and Strategic Actions for a Just Economy will receive $6.6 million.

The organizations receiving the funds are not just legal service providers. Many are also major players in activism. Attorneys tied to LAFLA have been involved in lawsuits challenging Los Angeles’ enforcement of laws tied to homeless encampments and street property seizures during sanitation operations. 

Strategic Actions for a Just Economy has pushed aggressive policy demands including freezing rents, canceling the 2028 Olympics and abolishing the LAPD. The group has also sued the City of Los Angeles over approvals for a luxury hotel project on public land, a case that led to closed-door settlement talks in 2023. 

The Liberty Hill Foundation, another recipient of city funding, has also backed advocacy campaigns and legal challenges tied to policing and housing policies, including efforts that limited the Los Angeles Police Department’s ability to enter individuals into gang databases.

But several councilmembers were warned ahead of the vote that earlier contracts tied to the same network of organizations had already raised red flags.

According to officials familiar with the discussions, there were cases where contractors failed to submit receipts, invoices or outcome reports detailing how taxpayer money was spent or what results the programs produced.

Those concerns have been simmering inside City Hall for more than a year.

In 2025, Feldstein Soto refused to sign a long-term extension of a contract with LAFLA tied to the city’s Stay Housed L.A. eviction defense program.

Although the deal had already been approved by the City Council and Mayor Karen Bass, the City Attorney’s Office said the agreement violated procurement rules because it functioned as a sole-source contract, steering tens of millions of dollars to a single provider without competitive bidding and with little ability to track the program’s progress or how the money was being spent.

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Councilmembers attempted to address the concerns before the final vote by rewriting portions of the deal.

Seven amendments were added to the proposal that emerged from Councilmember Nithya Raman’s Housing and Homelessness Committee, many aimed at tightening oversight.

The revisions require contractors to clearly separate administrative expenses from direct program services and direct the Los Angeles Housing Department to provide annual reports to the council detailing how the funds are spent.

During the public debate, Councilmember Monica Rodriguez was blunt about accountability.

“Graffiti contractors are required to provide more documentation just to get paid,” Rodriguez said.

“So when you’re dealing with millions and millions of dollars, if you don’t provide the receipts, we’re not going to pay you.”

But I’m sure they will; there’s a decades-long track record top prove it.

Perspective; I include a link to a complete debunking of this latest faux outrage of the Democrats, but this picture says all that's needed to be said

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Here’s the link to the story

UPDATE: Of course it’s not about Trump, it’s just a deep concern that taxpayer money is being diverted from worthy social programs to greedy soldiers. From the Obama years:

A perfect illustration of why New Yorkers and their spiritual sisters across the country elect politicians who will ruin them and this disgraceful nation

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John Sexton, HotAir:

Jihadi Footstool Admits He Made a Fool of Himself (But He's Still Wrong)

We've all seen the video at this point. A counter-protester named Walter Masterson is shouting through a megaphone about everyone being welcome in New York. And literally at that moment, would-be ISIS terrorist Emir Balat jumps over him to throw a bomb at the people he's been shouting at. Luckily the homemade explosive didn't go off.

Masterson completely missed the irony. In fact, shortly after this happened, he was on Twitter identifying himself as the guy with the megaphone to claim his 15 minutes of fame and doubling down on his message.

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Sexton: “If it wasn't already clear that Masterson is a moron, he was also certain the bomb wasn't real and never moved out of the way. In fact he mocked the people who ran.”

I can not stress this enough, it was right near our feet and it did not look real. We just stood there laughing.

Meanwhile the incel femoids ran away having been totally jestermogged. Their cortisol levels have yet to recover. pic.twitter.com/XyzWKk1LK6

— Walter Masterson (@waltermasterson)March 8, 2026

The FBI later confirmed that these were real bombs which were intended to go off. Fortunately, the guys who made them got something wrong and they didn't explode. For obvious reasons, no one is explaining exactly what their mistake was in the bomb chemistry but the bombers expected them to go off. In fact they later said they wanted to kill for ISIS and that they hoped for a higher death toll than the Boston marathon bombing.

For many obvious reasons, Masterson has now become a meme on the right.

Fortunately, PBS stepped forward to explain to its audience what really happened:

Anyway, you can imagine how terrible this must be for Masterson. His entire life seems to be about making fun of conservatives and now he's become a meme on the right. Today, he posted a video admitting he made a mistake.

Sexton:

He's had days to think about this and he still doesn't get it. Here's what he says near the end of the video: "Elon Musk and all of right wing media are having a field day right now because I am choosing inclusion and not bigotry."

No, that's not it, Jihadi Footstool! People aren't mocking you because you're against bigotry. People are mocking you because your first instinct was to denounce the bigot and ignore the Islamic terrorist who tried to murder you! 

And even in this second attempt at a reaction, you still have much more to say about Jake Lang than you do about the terrorists. You don't name them or their ideology. All you can manage to say is that they are both bad.

What I'm about to say is not a defense of Jake Lang. I have no love for Temu Nick Fuentes. But, like you, he had a right to be there expressing his opinions. His opinions are racist and dumb but so long as he limits himself to speech, he's operating under the protection of the First Amendment. That's how it's supposed to work in America.

The terrorists, on the other hand, are not there to voice an opinion. They were there to murder complete strangers, including you, you absolute dummy. They are something much, much worse than Jake Lang. To make it really simple for you, attempted mass murder is worse than saying unpleasant things. If you can't see that terrorist bomb throwers are in a totally different category of bad, you're hopeless. 

But, hey, give it a few more days and maybe try again to think about what almost happened here. Third time's the charm.

"Mr. Balat looks forward to his day in court, when we expect him to be fully exonerated" Mehdi Essmid, Esq., attorney for mad bomber Emir Balat

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lawyers just hate when photos like this happen

Okay, he didn’t really use that standaard defense lawyer cliche, but I’m sure he will in subsequent news conferences — they always do. Talk about being caught red handed — flesh colored, anyway — ow.

And as if that’s not enough trouble, there are other pictures ones just as damning:

This would probably be a good time to begin plea bargain discussions.

The NY Post reports on the latest developments.

UPDATE: Yes, it’s CNN, but this is still kind of, sort of, astonishing. Stephen Green adds, “CNN is about to come under new ownership. Do you get it yet, David Ellison?”

Two new listings

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41 Stone Brook Lane, $3.295 million. I much preferred its original name, Hooker Lane, but the neighbors, tired of schoolboys stealing the road sign and, perhaps, a bit embarrassed by the moniker, had the town change it. Too bad; frat houses everywhere mourned its passing.

American Heritage Magazine Feb/March 2006

This past October the residents of Hooker Lane, in the tony [sic] Cos Cob section of Greenwich, Connecticut, made headlines when 9 of the 11 homeowners on the 1,580-foot-long dead end—or “cul-de-sac,” in real estate-ese—petitioned the town’s board of selectmen to change the name of their street to Stonebrook Lane.

Hooker is a good old Connecticut family name, though the name of the lane apparently came from the maiden name of the wife of the man who developed the area in the 1960s rather than from Rev. Thomas Hooker, a founder of Hartford in 1636. But Hooker Lane’s residents got tired of the snickering that generally greeted them whenever they had to give anyone their address. “‘You live on Prostitute Street,’ that’s typical,” 12-year-old Brendan O’Connor told The New York Times .

The sense of hooker as “prostitute” often has been associated with Gen. Joseph (“Fighting Joe”) Hooker, who commanded the Army of the Potomac for five months in 1863. [And made a horrible job of it - Ed]. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., grandson of one President and great-grandson of another, reinforced this notion when he described Hooker’s headquarters as “a place where no self-respecting man liked to go, and no decent woman could go … a combination of bar-room and brothel.” Citing this quote, Shelby Foote gave Fighting Joe credit for the word’s sexual sense in The Civil War: A Narrative, Fredericksburg to Meridian (1963), the second of his three-volume history of the conflict.

The sexual meaning of hooker predates the Civil War, however. John Russell Bartlett defined hooker as “a strumpet, a sailor’s trull” in the 1859 edition of his Dictionary of Americanisms . Still earlier is a bit of man-to-man advice from 1845: “If he comes by way of Norfolk, he will find any number of pretty Hookers in the Brick row not far from French’s hotel” (quoted in Norman E. Eliason’s Tarheel Talk: An Historical Study of the English Language in North Carolina , published in 1956).

This leaves the term’s origin a bit of a mystery. Bartlett thought it came from Corlears Hook, a section of New York City’s Lower East Side noted for “houses of ill-fame frequented by sailors.” Others guess that it is a spinoff from the British slang use of hooker to refer either to a petty thief (also called an angler ) who used a stick with a hook to sneak goods away from their owners or to a boat (from the Dutch hoecker-schip ), originally a fishing vessel and later any boat. Most likely, though, is that it derives from the way prostitutes attract clients. Henry Mayhew quoted an English streetwalker in 1857: “I’ve hooked many a man by showing him an ankle on a wet day” ( London Labour and the London Poor ).

But General Hooker does not get away scot-free. Today the section of Washington, D.C., bounded by Constitution Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue, and Fifteenth Street NW is called the Federal Triangle (the huge Ronald Reagan federal office building is located there). In the latter decades of the nineteenth century, however, this was the capital’s red-light district, and it was known as Hooker’s Division on account of the many prostitutes who lived and worked in what census records of 1870 and 1880 listed as “female boarding houses.”

So Hooker may not have been directly responsible for hooker , but he certainly helped popularize it.

AnnJim Drive

And, just as the developer of Hooker Lane named it after his maiden aunt (or someone), the man who built a similar development, also in Cos Cob, also at around the same time, named his creation after his two children, Ann and Jim, who, presumably, shared the same virtuous character as Hooker’s relative.

As of today, 21 AnnJim Drive is available for $3.925. At least you can be confident no one will steal the street sign.

There’s been no real estate news, so far, to report today, so here’s a roundup of miscellaneous acts of idiocy culled from various websites

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The Democrats immediately jumped on this “scandal”; Governor Noisome included

Hello, World!

Here's the full post from @ZitoSalena: 

@TMZ Generated "outrage" or as it will be inevitably called lobster-gate here is some important context:

In 2009 when Robert Gates was the secretary defense during the Obama administration in Iraq and Afghanistan here is a story from a reporter who was embedded with the soldiers.

"The lobsters and crab legs are shipped from the United States and driven down on a refrigerated truck from Bagram. On seafood night, the crew serves up 400 of the tasty tails, 130 pounds of Alaskan King crab legs, and 135 pounds each of shrimp and scallops."

And here is a story from 2024 when Lloyd Austin was the secretary of defense.

UK to Replace Churchill on Banknotes With a Squirrel

Victim of public education: Salem Witch Trials were ‘mass genocide of women’

A very unfortunate teenage victim of public education [Harvard undergrad, probably — Ed] with the piercings and the tattoos and the manic pharmaceutical eyes, the whole nine yards, shares the insights she learned in school regarding the Salem Witch Trials, which she describes as the “mass genocide of women”:  

I don't know why, but all of a sudden I just started thinking about the Salem Witch Trials and I'm just so mad. Because that was just a mass genocide of women. And they teach it in school like it's something fun to learn about. They tortured, sexually assaulted, and then murdered millions of women. And they got away with it by accusing them of being witches.


Media Frolics:

WH Fires Back: 'Fake News!' as WaPo Whines About Photographer Access... After Firing All Their Photogs

The Washington Post’s “reporting”:

The Defense Department has barred press photographers from briefings on the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military conflict with Iran after they published photos of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that his staff deemed “unflattering,” according to two people familiar with the decision who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation.

The March 2 briefing came days after a joint military strike on Iran that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Feb. 28. It was also the first time the defense secretary had appeared behind the briefing room podium since June 26.

Several outlets including the Associated Press, Reuters and Getty Images sent photographers to the briefing from Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

But after they published photos — which have broad reach because they are licensed by publications globally — members of Hegseth’s staff told colleagues that they did not like the way that the secretary looked. Hegseth’s aides decided to shut out photographers from the two subsequent briefings at the Pentagon, on March 4 and March 10, according to the two people familiar with the decision.

And then there’s Whoopie and the View, because without them to entertain and amuse us, we’d be left with just Tucker

Finally, from the entirely predictable but somehow unforeseen consequences from the Department of FAFO, this:

Starbucks founder follows Jeff Bezos out of Washington State and heads to Florida

Washington Passes 9.9 Percent Millionaire Tax - Now Starbucks Founder Howard Schultz Is Leaving Seattle

Tales from the Old Sod; you might say the employer lost his appeal

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food fight!

A book-keeper whose boss repeatedly shouted the word 'potato' at her 'in a strong Irish accent' has been awarded more than £23,000 by an employment tribunal after it found she had been racially harassed.

'It made me feel small, insecure, violated, and extremely anxious.'

Bernadette Hayes, who is Irish, worked for engineering company West Leeds Civils in Holbeck when the incidents took place between December 2023 and June 2024.

Mick [just sayin’ ] Atkins, director of the firm, also used 'offensive and humiliating' phrases that were 'overtly linked to race' towards Hayes, a judge ruled.

Hayes was awarded £20,735.91, and the business was ordered to give her four weeks' pay, amounting to £2,800.

POTATO!