Katrina's Lessons Are as Important as 9/11's
While the media covered a lot of the 9/11 memorials, concerts and memories, it seemed as if the legacy of Katrina got very little attention.
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9/11: Never Again?
Michael Brenner | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
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Let's drop the childish game of scaring ourselves with the likes of high school drop-out Jose Padilla and similarly I.Q. challenged riff-raff. In doing so, we are behaving like kids who conjure monsters.
Kennedy Memoir Excerpt Blasts Bush Admin. For Iraq War
Talking Points Memo | Ben Frumin | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
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We've obtained an exclusive excerpt from the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's autobiography "True Compass" -- which goes on sale today -- in which the Massachu...
New Osama Bin Laden Tape: Obama Reportedly Called "Powerless" By Al-Qaida Leader
AP | Posted 11.13.2009 | World
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WASHINGTON — In a tape released Sunday by al-Qaida's media wing, terrorist leader Osama bin Laden said President Barack Obama is "powerless" to ...
Glenn Beck's Crazy 9/12 Tea Party Had Nothing to do With 9/11
Rachel Sklar | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media
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Beck wants this country to return to the values it held on 9/12/2001. As someone who was in New York on 9/11 (and 9/12) I remember those values being terror and a profound grief.
Bloomers and Birthers
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living
As a child, religions seemed to me a way of separating people, and in the aftermath of the eighth anniversary of 9/11, it doesn't look a whole lot different to me now.
Joe Wilson and the 9/12 March: The Week That Decency Died?
John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
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The 9/12 protests are extensions of the 'sore loser' rallies, and they're one hundred percent partisan. That is why their attempts to wrap themselves in the tragedy of 9/11 is so wrong.
White Whine
Kate Clinton | Posted 11.12.2009 | Comedy
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Republicans treat President Obama as if he were a substitute teacher and they are just waiting for the real deal to come back in the room.
We The Fallen of 9/11
Stephen Herrington | Posted 11.12.2009 | World
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One must question at this point, on this day of the year especially, whether the power of the U.S. government, diplomatic and military, has been used in the best way to honor our own fallen of 9/11
An Historian's Prescient View of 9/11
Al Eisele | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home
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On the morning of Sept. 11, David McCullough called me to say that an airplane had just crashed into the World Trade Tower. Here is the story that my colleagues and I filed in the Sept. 12 issue of The Hill.
Left, Right & Center: ObamaCare, No to Afghanistan, and 9/11 Eight Years On
Huff Radio | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
A truly substantive discussion of Swiss and Massachusetts models for health care. And on the eighth anniversary of 9/11, is the country any safer?
9/11 Film Review of Amreeka: Drama of the Arab-Christian Experience in America Also Strikes Notes of Heart and Humor
Penelope Andrew | Posted 11.11.2009 | Entertainment
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Amreeka is an artful, moving testimony to the perils of making assumptions about individuals or groups. It is a is a film of impeccable taste that unites instead of divides.
Michael Williams, Delta Passenger, Caught Carrying Gun On 9/11 At LaGuardia
NBC New York | Jonathan Dienst | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York
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As New York remembered the 9/11 attacks, a man with a loaded handgun tried to board a Delta Airlines flight at LaGuardia Airport, authorities said. ...
The Unedited Truth: Why MSNBC Re-Airs 9/11 Coverage
Dan Abrams | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media
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Some have called it gruesome or ghoulish, even referring to it as "death porn." Maybe so, but it also really happened.
9/11 Remembered: Photos From The Day (PHOTOS)
Huffington Post | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York
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Rain mixed with tears in New York today as mourners commemorated the 8th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Below are images from the memoria...
Keep Your Shoes On: A Modest Proposal for Rational Airport Security
Jay Michaelson | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
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The rest of the world is laughing at us. Literally, in some cases -- when I reflexively took my shoes off at a security line in Berlin, the guard chuckled. Stupid American.
9/11 Eight Years After
Christine Pelosi | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
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It was not and is not inevitable that we demonize each other when, quite frankly -- we are not the problem -- the terrorists are.
CNN's Sloppy Reportage Needlessly Panics Nation
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media
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Thanks to CNN's overactive imagination, news consumers experienced a brief dose of 9/11 nostalgia panic as a routine Coast Guard training exercise magically transformed into a touch-and-go bit of terrorist interdiction on the high seas!
Eight Years After 9/11, Does Afghanistan Matter?
David Latt | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
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If the Taliban retake the country, the fate of Afghanistan's women and girls is easy to imagine. They will not be educated. Their schools will be closed or burned to the ground. They will be persecuted.
Sacred Memories: A 9/11 Ritual
Rabbi Irwin Kula | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
So what message would I like to send out today 9/11? No words at all. Simply a chant of actual final cell phone conversations of people, who simply and heroically witnessed a yearning to love.
This 9/11, Urban Communities Remember and Serve
Rev. Lennox Yearwood and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green
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To see people from all walks of life take up service as a way to remember the tragedy of 9/11 is beauty from ashes. It is also part of the solution that will put our nation on the road to recovery, permanently.
Interview with NYC Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler - 9/11 Then And Now
Posted 11.11.2009 | New York
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Edward Skyler has worked for Mayor Michael Bloomberg since before his election, and was actively campaigning for the candidate when the 9/11 attacks t...
9/11 Mourners Observe Moment Of Silence As Bells Toll
Huffington Post/AP | SUZANNE MA | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York
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NEW YORK — Cold rain mixed with tears as mourners collected under umbrellas and a dreary sky Friday to mark the eighth anniversary of the Sept. ...
9/11: Good War, Bad War, No War
Jamal Dajani | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
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Today, America needs to reassess what has been done in the name of the victims of 9/11: two horrible and unwinnable wars.
Coast Guard's Sept. 11 Training Exercise Sparks Confusion In D.C.
AP | CALVIN WOODWARD and EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — A morning of remembrance turned into one of flashbacks, fear and media missteps Friday when a Coast Guard exercise – unfoldin...
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