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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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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Remembering 9/11  —  Note: This entry will ride on top all day.
Discussion: Darleen's Place and Sister Toldjah
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Terror war all but forgotten on home front  —  Sept. 11, 2005 — the fourth anniversary of the start of the war.  That is, if you believe it's a ''war'' A lot of people didn't want to, even in those first days.  —  About a week after, one of my local radio stations held a fund-raiser and this is how their trailer for it opened.
Discussion: Power Line
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Area417:
Sept. 11: What were you doing four years ago today?  —  I remember the phone call from my husband; it came around this hour four years ago today.  He told me that a plane had flown into one of the twin towers.  —  At the time, I thought that a small, private plane had somehow tragically gone astray.
Discussion: ScrappleFace
Jay / Stop the ACLU:
September 11th Remembered
Discussion: basil's blog
Evan Thomas / Newsweek:
How Bush Blew It  —  Bureaucratic timidity.  Bad phone lines.  And a failure of imagination.  Why the government was so slow to respond to catastrophe.  —  Sept. 19, 2005 issue - It's a standing joke among the president's top aides: who gets to deliver the bad news?
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.
Hindrocket / Power Line:
THE SMART VS. THE STUPID  —  The smart, in this case, is David Riggs, a Ph.D. in applied economics with whom I became friends when he worked at the Center of the American Experiment, a Minnesota-based think tank on whose board of directors I served for some years, and of which Scott is currently a member.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune:   Nick Coleman: The new American experiment: No heart
Gavin M. / Sadly, No!:
Your 10-minute Powerline Suh-zzadly Nizzle
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Washington Post:
The Steady Buildup to a City's Chaos  —  Confusion Reigned At Every Level Of Government  —  Walter Maestri had dreaded this call for a decade, ever since he took over emergency management for Jefferson Parish, a marshy collection of suburbs around New Orleans.
Discussion: War and Piece and ScrappleFace
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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 …
Michele / a small victory:
TODAY  —  I still think about it on days like this, when the sky is a deep blue, the clouds are perfectly formed bundles of white, the air is crisp and cool; chilly enough for long sleeves but warm enough to keep the windows in the car rolled down.  It was a just like that day.  It was a perfect day, for a while.
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Sheila / The Sheila Variations:   THE BLINDING BLUE OF THAT MORNING
Agence France Presse:
Yahoo's Yang say hands tied in China Internet censorship case  —  HANGZHOU, China (AFP) - Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) chief Jerry Yang said his company was complying with local laws when information on an Internet user was passed to Chinese police in a move leading to the jailing of a mainland journalist.
Discussion: Gateway Pundit and Barcepundit
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Roger L. Simon / Mystery Novelist and Screenwriter:   Yahoo - A Good 1940s German Company
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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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.
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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CALIFORNIA YANKEE:
A Day For Remembering  —  [This was originally posted September 11, 2004.
Discussion: Winds of Change.NET
Amy Westfeldt / Associated Press:
Nation Remembers Victims of 9/11 Attacks  —  NEW YORK - America grieved the victims of Sept. 11 on Sunday as the brothers and sisters of the dead recited their loved ones' names and tearful messages of remembrance to a weeping crowd gathered at the site where the World Trade Center once stood.
Palm Beach Post:
Lack of plan hurt Katrina-hit states' response  —  TALLAHASSEE — One thing Florida knows is hurricanes.  —  Florida emergency planners criticized and even rebuked their counterparts — or what passes for emergency planners — in those states for their handling of Hurricane Katrina.
Mike Allen / Time:
Living Too Much in the Bubble?  —  A bungled initial response to Katrina exposed the perils of a rigid, insular White House.  Inside Bush's plan to show he isn't isolated  —  President bush was seated in the white house situation Room, watching military and disaster officials beaming …
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 …
Discussion: AMERICAblog and ACSBlog
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Katrina: Incompetence Distilled  —  The New York Times has a feature story in its Sunday edition that supposedly looks at the frustration of coordinating the local, state, and federal responses to Hurricane Katrina.  However, the article by a crew of Times writers instead inadvertently encapsulates …

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Blame Aplenty  —  A team of Indiana firefighters …
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Roberts Cultivated An Audience With Justices for Years
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If peace needs to be purchased with the sword,  —  we should be ready to do this.
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9/11, 7/7 and 8/30  —  On the fourth-year anniversary …
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