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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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CALIFORNIA YANKEE:A Day For Remembering — [This was originally posted September 11, 2004.
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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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Paula Reed Ward / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:Flight 93 memorial decried as Islam symbol
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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 …
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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 …
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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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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.
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.
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.
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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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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.
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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The Moderate Voice
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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 …
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.
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 …
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.
Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:
Historians Fear Attack Date's Significance Could Fade — The first year was marked with a moment of silence, the tolling of bells and a reading of the names of the nearly 3,000 people who died. Those sad rituals continued for the second and third anniversaries of the Sept. 11, 2001 …
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Juan / Informed Comment:
9/11, 7/7 and 8/30 — On the fourth-year anniversary of the al-Qaeda attacks on the US, it is important that we take stock of where we stand. We do not stand in a good place. The US military is bogged down in an intractable guerrilla war in Iraq, which most Muslims view as an aggressive neo-imperialism.
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.
Jack Shafer / Slate:
Chief Justice Rehnquist's Drug Habit — The man in full. — As we usher the 16th chief justice of the United States to his celestial reward, let us remember him in full. He labored successfully to return power to the states, treated colleagues with warmth and respect …
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