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Mike Gallagher is a right-wing radio host. He appeared on Fox News’ “Your World With Neil Cavuto” last week. Inspired obviously by the London-Glasgow terror plot, and worried — as any responsible American should be — about the possibility of a similar situation arising in the U.S., Gallagher offered this considered advice:

So, there seems to me to be nothing wrong with suspending the opportunity for Muslim doctors to enter the United States until, as you said, we sort this thing out and know who’s who.
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We’ve got to understand (that) all the terrorists are Muslim.

Let’s hope the Department of Homeland Security was listening.

Gallagher, of course, is neither intellectually dishonest nor a raving xenophobe. So any day now, he’s going to clap his hand to his head in dismay, and cry out in dismay: “Sh*t! I clean forgot about Timothy McVeigh, didn’t I?”

Being a man of integrity, he will ask to re-appear on Fox News. Where he will earnestly deliver the following equally reasonable homeland-security-critical suggestion:

There seems to me to be nothing wrong with suspending the opportunity for white male Americans who are decorated war veterans to live the United States. Just until this whole domestic terrorism thing is sorted out once and for all, you know.

Can’t screw around with the security of the homeland. Gotta do what ya gotta do. Whatever it takes. That’s the American way, isn’t it? At least now, in the time of Bush?