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Lorie Byrd / PoliPundit.com:
WE WILL NOT FORGET — SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 — "The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness, and a quiet, unyielding anger. These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat.
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Lorie Byrd / PoliPundit.com:COMMENTARY - September 11 — Below is just a sampling …
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Ken / No, You Can't Have A Pony!:
Paranoia Of The Day — This amuses me to no end. — Take a look at this picture. It is what the proposed Flight 93 memorial will look like from the air (Flight 93, as you recall, was the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania on 9/11). — The image-over-substance wingnuts are absolutely freaking out about it.
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Gordon Russell / Times-Picayune Breaking News Weblog:
Mayor Nagin speaks out — In a stark reminder of how drastically Hurricane Katrina has impacted the lives of New Orleanians, Mayor Ray Nagin has purchased a home for his family in Dallas and enrolled his young daughter in school there. — Nagin, who spoke with The Times-Picayune by telephone from Dallas …
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Dr. Steven Taylor / PoliBlog:
Remembering 911 — This is a repost of my post from last year on this date: Remembering September 11, 2001. I can think of no other way to reflect on the events of four years ago than to simply remember, so here are my memories of that day: — I was in my office at Troy (then State) University.
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Will Lester / Associated Press:
President's Approval Rating Dips Below 40 — WASHINGTON - President Bush's job approval has dipped below 40 percent for the first time in the AP-Ipsos poll, reflecting widespread doubts about his handling of gasoline prices and the response to Hurricane Katrina.
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Brian Ross / ABCNEWS:
Tape Released: American al Qaeda Member Warns of Attacks — Names Los Angeles and Melbourne as Next Targets — Sept. 11, 2005 — In an apparent Sept. 11 communiqué broadcast on ABC News, an al Qaeda operative threatens new attacks against cities in the US and Australia.
Washington Post:
Terrorism Could Hurl D.C. Area Into Turmoil — Despite Efforts Since 9/11, Response Plans Incomplete — The U.S. Capitol and the White House have been fortified, police forces strengthened, high-tech security equipment purchased, vulnerable streets closed and checkpoints and barriers erected.
Reuters:
Firms with White House ties get Katrina contracts — FEMA taps Halliburton subsidiary, Shaw Group, Bechtel for cleanup — WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Companies with ties to the Bush White House and the former head of FEMA are clinching some of the administration's first disaster relief …
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Times of London:
Ditch Holocaust day, advisers urge Blair — ADVISERS appointed by Tony Blair after the London bombings are proposing to scrap the Jewish Holocaust Memorial Day because it is regarded as offensive to Muslims. — They want to replace it with a Genocide Day that would recognise the mass murder …
Associated Press:
Lawyer Is Fired After Talking About Rove — AUSTIN, Texas - A lawyer with the Texas secretary of state was fired after she spoke to a reporter about presidential adviser Karl Rove's eligibility to vote in the state. — Elizabeth Reyes, 30, said she was dismissed last week for violating …
truthout.org:
Blackwater Mercenaries Deploy in New Orleans — New Orleans - Heavily armed paramilitary mercenaries from the Blackwater private security firm, infamous for their work in Iraq, are openly patrolling the streets of New Orleans. Some of the mercenaries say they have been "deputized" …
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
Most Overrated Movie Of All Time? — Karol says Good Will Hunting. I was smart enough to stay clear of that one, myself. — So— which movies are overrated? Let's keep this on prestige-type Oscar-bait kind of movies; I don't want you geeks and morons to generate into a 400 post discussion …
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Nick Coleman: The new American experiment: No heart — Everyone is playing the blame game on Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans, and we at the top end of the Mississippi River can join the fun by pointing fingers close to home. — Part of what drowned New Orleans is a political ideology determined …
Bruce Thornton / victorhanson.com:
The Forbidden History — A Review of The Legacy of Jihad. Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims edited by Andrew G. Bostom. — Private Papers — Four years after 9/11 the postmortem of that disaster continues to focus on the institutional failures of our intelligence agencies and government bureaucracies.
Atlas Shrugs:
SHOTGUN SEAN - POSTERBOY FOR NRA/SECOND AMENDMENT — I don't even have a category for this moron. Thank G-d for the New York Post though, they run images the MSM wouldn't dare. — "Actor Sean Penn lugs a shotgun through the flooded streets of New Orleans as if he is starring in an action thriller - but he is not.
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