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The Twisted and Dangerous Republican Record on Terrorism

Bob Cesca | Posted 01.06.2010 | Politics

Read More: Peter King, Fearmongering, Wingnuts, Richard Burr, Underpants Bomber, War on Terror, Terrorism, George W. Bush, 9/11, Al Qaeda, Dick Cheney, Michael Chertoff, Christmas Day Terror Attack, Fear Mongering, Counter-Terrorism, Northwest Flight 253, Republican Party, Republicans, Politics News

We all understand that Americans have a short attention span, and an even shorter memory, but the Republicans are really counting on it as they exploit the post-underpants bomber freakout.

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The Palin Facebook Doctrine

Shannyn Moore | Posted 01.06.2010 | Politics

When Dick Cheney pops up like a whack-a-mole on Cialis, and you can bet Palin won't be far behind. The Underwear Bomber and President Obama's response needed a special Palin edition

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Twin Towers T-Shirt Furor: Shirt Referencing 9/11 World Trade Center Attacks Gets Dearborn Students In Trouble

AP | Posted 01.06.2010 | New York

Read More: Twin Towers T-Shirt, Tee Shirt, Thunderbird, World Trade Center T-Shirt, 9/11, World Trade Center, Dearborn Public Schools, Dearborn, Twin Towers, Michigan, New York News

DEARBORN, Mich. — At least nine Detroit area high school juniors are in trouble for wearing sweat shirts bearing a design that evokes the terror...

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After the Underwear Bomber, Republicans Have Shown Their True Color: Weakness

Mitchell Bard | Posted 01.06.2010 | Politics

Where are the tough-guy Republicans now? When did fear and whining replace the gunslinger persona? The Republican reaction has been to give the terrorists exactly what they want.

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Maureen Dowd: New Year's Eve With Janet Napolitano

nytimes.com | MAUREEN DOWD | Posted 01.03.2010 | Politics

Read More: Maureen Dowd Janet Napolitano, Cia, Janet Napolitano, 9/11, Maureen Dowd, New Years Resolution, New York Times, Politics News

Janet Napolitano and I hadn't planned to spend New Year's Eve together. But there we were on this soggy Thursday, sitting in her office on the out...

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Sleep Loss in America: The Decade That Didn't Sleep and Why It's Complicated

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 12.31.2009 | Living

Read More: The South, Protect/Protect, War on Terror, Lesley Poma-Steven, September Stock Market, Importance of Sleep, Nasdaq, West Coast, Prime Time, 9/11, Melatonin, Facebook, Cbs, Sleep Disorders, Veterans, Iphone, Michael Moore Movie, Michael Moore, Financial Crisis, Korean War, Decade, Global Financial Crisis, Ptsd, Sleep Deprivation, Whitney Museum, Global Warming, Ipod, Jenny Holzer, Twitter, Major League Baseball, Sleep Aids, Sicko, Sleep in America Poll, Afghanistan War, Tumblr, Iraq War, Bush Administration, Dow Jones, Jay Leno, It's Complicated, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Geopolitics, Insomnia, Bear Stearns, National Sleep Foundation, Ground Zero, David Letterman, Sleep, Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, Blackberry, Farmville-Game, Lehman Brothers, Tiger Woods Accenture, Living News

We have been on a roller coaster when it comes to how we now sleep and what a ride we have been on.

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Never Give Up: How The Son Of A World Trade Center Hero Decided Nothing Would Keep Him Down

Posted 12.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: 911, 9/11, World Trade Center Attacks, Joey Graziano, Slideshow, World Trade Center, Graziano, September 11th, 911 Attacks, Politics News

By Luke Mullins Special to the Huffington Post Introduction With as many as 1,700 students pursuing just 32 slots, the chances of winning a Rh...

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A New Year: Where We've Been And Where We're Going

Jim Selman | Posted 12.29.2009 | Living

We've lost a lot of our our innocence in only 10 years. From Al Quaeda to Bernie Madoff, we're waking up to the realization that the American Dream is just a dream if we aren't responsible for it.

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James Ryan, 9/11 Firefighter, Denied Line-Of-Duty Funeral By FDNY

nydailynews.com | By Michael J. Feeney and Katie Nelson | Posted 12.29.2009 | New York

Read More: New York Firefighters, Firefighters, Fdny-911, James Ryan, 9/11, Fdny, New York Fire Department, New York, New York City, New York News

Fellow firefighters said Long Island firefighter and 9/11 hero James Ryan deserved a line of duty funeral with all the bells, whistles and family bene...

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The Decade At War (PHOTOS)

Vanity Fair | Posted 12.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Photos, Photography, Windows on the Wars, War, 9/11, War Photographs, War Pictures, Afghanistan War, Decade in War, War Photos, Iraq War, Decade at War, Pictures, Politics News

A decade ago, America was flush and at peace. Then came the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the retaliatory invasion of Afghanistan, and the controversial ...

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Thwarted Plane Bombing Shows Continuing Threat and Diversity of Jihadist Radicalism

Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 12.28.2009 | World

A worldwide struggle by a transnational movement aided by the Internet and social media enables would-be "lone" fanatics anywhere to market themselves to terror groups as recruits.

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'Please Remove Your Jackets, Sweaters and Pants, and Place All Laptops and Electronics...'

Andy Ostroy | Posted 12.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Northwest Airlines, Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, 9/11, 9-11, Terrorism, Al Qaeda, Politics News

So what now? Will the Department of Homeland Security now require that we remove our pants too, leaving us standing there even more humiliated in our underwear and tees?

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Upholding the Constitution

David Vines | Posted 12.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Cornyn, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Trial, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ksm, Terrorism, 9/11, New York, Eric Holder, Politics News

There is no "oh, well, except for terrorists" clause to the Sixth Amendment. And that is what makes our country so great.

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Subway At Ground Zero: Sandwich Shop Will Climb Up Building As It's Built

AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 12.24.2009 | New York

Read More: World Trade Center, Restaurant, Subway, Ground Zero, Wtc, Ground Zero Towers, 9/11, Subway Sandwich, September 11th, New York News

NEW YORK — Fresh bread will soon be baking high above ground zero. The new World Trade Center got its first restaurant Wednesday – a sand...

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The Religious Decade: 2000 To 2010

Paul Raushenbush | Posted 12.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Slidehuge, Christopher Hitchens, Slidepoll, George W. Bush, 9/11, Pope Benedict XVI, Rick Warren, Faith, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, 2009, Osama Bin Laden, Religion, The Dalai Lama, Interfaith, Slideshow, Atheists, Gay Marriage, Living News

The following 10 stories show the breadth of religious actors and events and how deeply they affected the last 10 years of American and world history.

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The Decade in Denver

Craig Alan Silverman | Posted 12.22.2009 | Denver

Read More: 9/11, Democratic Convention Denver, Kobe Bryant, Ward Churchill, John Mark Karr, John Elway, Tiger Woods, Rocky Mountain News, 2008 Democratic National Convention, Decade in Review, Denver, Denver Broncos, 2000s, Colorado, Denver News

So much of America's best and worst happen here in the Centennial State.

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In Nightmares Begin Responsibilities: Why War Will Take No Holiday in 2010

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 12.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, 9/11, Cost of Afghanistan War, Us Troops Afghanistan, Tomdispatch, Afghanistan War, Politics News

Here's my fantasy this holiday season: I'd like, that is, to obliterate TomDispatch, for without the Afghan war, my website would never have existed. Here's the saddest thing: I know full well that its future is assured as long as I care to do it.

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Taxpayers Help Goldman Sachs Reach Height Of Profit In New Skyscraper

Bloomberg | Posted 12.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Geithner, Goldman Sachs, Investment Banks, 9/11, Obama, Hedge Fund, Headquarters, Pataki, Bonuses Feinberg, Bailout, Treasury, Blankfein, Banks, Liberty Bonds, Tarp, Executive Pay, Business News

In the first six months of 2010, about 6,000 employees of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. will take a break from their spreadsheets and move across the south...

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Downtown Dispatch: Fear and Anxiety Grip Lower Manhattan as It Braces for the Terror Trials

Julie Menin | Posted 12.18.2009 | New York

Read More: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Militray Tribunal, New York, Eric Holder, Terrorism, Torture, KSM Trial, 9/11, Lower Manhattan, World Trade Center, Ksm, New York News

Emotions bubbled to the surface in lower Manhattan this week. Neighborhood activists lambasted Eric Holder's decision to hold the KSM trial in the shadow of the World Trade Center site.

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9/11 Families Want Ashes Removed From Dump

AP | Posted 12.17.2009 | New York

Read More: 9/11, September 11th Families Want Ashes, New York City, New York, New York News

NEW YORK — A lawyer has asked a federal appeals court to let families of victims of the World Trade Center attacks remove ashes of their loved o...

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FBI Lends Hand With 9/11 Trial

AP | Posted 12.16.2009 | New York

Read More: 9/11, Fbi, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Terror-Trials-in-Us-Courts, New York City, New York, Terrorism, New York News

NEW YORK — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is forming a squad to assist prosecutors in the upcoming New York trials of Sept. 11 suspects. F...

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Flickr, YouTube Feature World Trade Center Rebuilding

AP | Posted 12.16.2009 | New York

Read More: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, One World Trade Center, Wtc, 9/11, Youtube, World Trade Center, World Trade Center Construction, September 11th, Flickr, New York News

NEW YORK — New pictures and video showing the rebuilding at the World Trade Center site are now on two social networking sites. The Port Author...

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Majid Khan, Guantanamo Detainee, May Get Brooklyn Trial

AP | TOM HAYS and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 12.14.2009 | New York

Read More: 9/11 Trials, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Majid Khan, Brooklyn, 9/11, New York, New York City, New York News

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors are considering sending a Guantanamo Bay detainee named Majid Khan – who grew up in Maryland before alleg...

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WaPo's Public Enemy Correction Inspires Hilarious Twitter Meme [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Twitter, Corrections, Trending Topics, 911, Washington Post, Public Enemy, Media News, September 11th, Media News

The Post published an article reporting rap legends Public Enemy referred to 9/11 as "a joke," when in reality they were referring to emergency number 9-1-1. Happily, something is being done about it!

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