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Glenn Beck's Crazy 9/12 Tea Party Had Nothing to do With 9/11

Rachel Sklar | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Politics News, Tea Party, 9/12, 912 Project, 2001, 9/11 Anniversary, September 11, 9/11, Fox News, 9-12-Project, Glenn Beck, 9/12 Tea Party March, 9/12 March on Washington, Glenn Beck 9-12, Glenn Beck 9/12, Teabaggers, Media News
Rachel Sklar

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.

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Bloomers and Birthers

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: 9/11, Religion, Childhood, Parochial School, Living News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

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.

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Joe Wilson and the 9/12 March: The Week That Decency Died?

John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: 2010, John Boehner, Joe Wilson, 9/11 Anniversary, 9/11, 9/12 March on Washington, Tea Party, Rep. Joe Wilson, New York, Barack Obama, 2012, New York News, Politics News
John R. Bohrer

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.

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White Whine

Kate Clinton | Posted 11.12.2009 | Comedy

Read More: 9/11, Obama Speech, Barack Obama, Obama Speech to Congress, Joint Session of Congress, Joe Wilson, Comedy News
Kate Clinton

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.

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We The Fallen of 9/11

Stephen Herrington | Posted 11.12.2009 | World

Read More: Nyfd, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Special Forces, George W. Bush, 9/11 Anniversary, Nypd, 9/11, Taliban, Tora Bora, Osama Bin Laden, World News
Stephen Herrington

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

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An Historian's Prescient View of 9/11

Al Eisele | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home

Read More: 9/11, 9/11 Media Coverage, The Hill, Katie Couric, September 11th, David McCullough, Home News
Al Eisele

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.

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Left, Right & Center: ObamaCare, No to Afghanistan, and 9/11 Eight Years On

Huff Radio | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, Obama Speech, Obamacare, Afghanistan, Health Care, 9/11 Anniversary, Politics News
Huff Radio

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?

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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

Read More: Palestinian-Americans, Arrested Development, Independent Films, National Geographic, Hiam Abbass, Films, Arab-Americans, 9/11, Nisreen Faour, Babel, Munich, The Immigrant Experience, Cherien Dabis, Lemon Tree, Lebanese-Americans, Melkar Muallem, Women Directors, Alia Shawkat, The Visitor, Amreeka, Jordanian-Americans, Muslim-Americans, Arab-Christians, Yussef-Abu-Warda, Arab-Muslims, Entertainment News
Penelope Andrew

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.

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Michael Williams, Delta Passenger, Caught Carrying Gun On 9/11 At LaGuardia

NBC New York | Jonathan Dienst | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

Read More: Laguardia Security, Delta Airlines, LaGuardia Airport, 9/11, Laguardia Airport Security, Post-911 Security, Airport Security, Delta, Michael Williams, New York News

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. ...

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The Unedited Truth: Why MSNBC Re-Airs 9/11 Coverage

Dan Abrams | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media

Read More: 9/11, Dan Abrams, Msnbc, 9/11 Memorial, 9/11 Media Coverage, 9/11 Anniversary, 9/11 Msnbc, Twin Towers, Ground Zero, Media News
Dan Abrams

Some have called it gruesome or ghoulish, even referring to it as "death porn." Maybe so, but it also really happened.

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9/11 Remembered: Photos From The Day (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

Read More: Photos, 9/11 Memorial, Joe Biden, 9/11 Anniversary, 9/11, Slidehuge, Michael Bloomberg, 9/11 Memorial Service, Vice President Joe Biden, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Slidepoll, New York News

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...

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Keep Your Shoes On: A Modest Proposal for Rational Airport Security

Jay Michaelson | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Shoe Bomber, Department of Homeland Security, Fearmongering, Tom Ridge, Homeland Security, 9/11 Anniversary, 9/11, Airport Security, Bush War on Terror, September 11th, Living News
Jay Michaelson

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.

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9/11 Eight Years After

Christine Pelosi | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: President, First Responders, Swiftboating, Liberty, Impeachment, War, 9/11, 9/11 Commission, Security, Torture, September 11, Politics News
Christine Pelosi

It was not and is not inevitable that we demonize each other when, quite frankly -- we are not the problem -- the terrorists are.

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Jason Linkins

CNN's Sloppy Reportage Needlessly Panics Nation

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Coast Guard Potomac, Video, Cnn, CNN Coast Guard, Media Criticism, 9/11, Coast Guard, Media News, September 11th, Media News

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!

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Eight Years After 9/11, Does Afghanistan Matter?

David Latt | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, Women's Rights, George Will, Taliban, Arianna Huffington, Afghanistan War, President Obama, Politics News
David Latt

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.

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Sacred Memories: A 9/11 Ritual

Rabbi Irwin Kula | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: 9/11, World Trade Center, New York, 9/11 Anniversary, Living News
Rabbi Irwin Kula

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.

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This 9/11, Urban Communities Remember and Serve

Rev. Lennox Yearwood and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins. Green the Block, Community Service, Reverend Yearwood, Rev.Lennox Yearwood, 9/11 Anniversary, 9/11, Community Organizing, Green News
Rev. Lennox Yearwood and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins

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.

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Interview with NYC Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler - 9/11 Then And Now

Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

Read More: Edward Skyler, Volunteering, 9/11 Anniversary, 9/11, National Day of Service, United We Serve, New York City, Public Service, New York News

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...

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9/11 Mourners Observe Moment Of Silence As Bells Toll

Huffington Post/AP | SUZANNE MA | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

Read More: 9/11, 9/11 Memorial, 9/11 Commemoration, 9/11 Anniversary, 9/11 Victims, 9/11 Mourners, September 11th, September 11th Anniversary, September 11 Anniversary, New York News

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. ...

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9/11: Good War, Bad War, No War

Jamal Dajani | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, Cia, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Terrorism, 9/11 Anniversary, 9/11, Iraq, September 11th, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Afghanistan War, World News
Jamal Dajani

Today, America needs to reassess what has been done in the name of the victims of 9/11: two horrible and unwinnable wars.

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Coast Guard's Sept. 11 Training Exercise Sparks Confusion In D.C.

AP | CALVIN WOODWARD and EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: 9/11, Obama, Uscg, Coast Guard, Training Exercise, September 11, World News

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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9/11 iPhone App Remembers Terrorist Attacks

Mashable | Posted 11.11.2009 | Technology

Read More: Iphone, 9/11, iPhone App, Terrorist Attack, Memorial, September 11th, 9/11 Anniversary, Smart Phone, Technology News

To help you recall and remember what occurred eight years ago today, there's an app called "9/11 Numbers" which brings the sobering realities of Septe...

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#Whereiwas: Twitter Users Share 9/11 Memories

Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

Read More: Twitter, 9/11, Whereiwas, Twitter Trends, #Whereiwas, September 11th, Tweets, Memories, New York News

Twitter users are taking to the Internet today to share memories of where they were on September 11th, 2001. Scroll down to see a real-time feed of...

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9/11 Memories: Submit Your Photos And Stories

Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

Read More: 9/11, 9/11 Memories, 9/11 Photos, September 11th Anniversary, September 11th, New York, New York News

Eight years ago today, the worst terrorist attack in United States history destroyed twin emblems of our country, killed nearly three thousand people,...

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9/11 + 8: Where We've Been, Where We're Going

William Bradley | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Abdullah Abdullah, Britain, Turkey, France, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mossad, Iran, Hamid Karzai, Osama Bin Laden, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Cairo, Barack Obama, Germany, Egypt, Al Qaeda, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Northern Alliance, Tehran, Iraq, Israel, Donald Rumsfeld, 9/11, Torture, Video, World News
William Bradley

Eight years since 9/11. It feels like 18 years, if not 80. So much has changed since then, yet so much is still the same.

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