IN THE REAL WORLD - AT 7:44 P.M. ET:  From Fox News:

Investigators found research on New York City sports stadiums and sites related to the city's Fashion Week events on the computer of a man being questioned in an FBI probe of an alleged terrorist plot, ABC News reports.

Authorities have made few public comments about the progress of their investigation, but there have been numerous reports that Najibullah Zazi has admitted to ties to Al Qaeda while claiming he was not central to the suspected terror cell under investigation.

COMMENT:  There's been a remarkably indifferent reaction to this news on the part of the public.  Were clearly falling asleep, and those devoted to The One apparently believe that a wave of his hand or a burst of his rhetoric will erase all threats.  The man in question here was trained in Afghanistan, and it wasn't in rug making.

September 19,  2009