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A professor scorned for remarks about Sept. 11 victims vowed that his firing over allegations of plagiarism, falsification and other misconduct wouldn't end his 2 1/2-year dispute with the University of Colorado.
The nation's largest firefighters union has accused Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, of committing "egregious acts" against firefighters who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The Republican candidate for governor says the state's recently dedicated 9-11 memorial should be torn down, calling it an insult to America because of wording that he says criticizes the United States and fails to adequately honor victims and military personnel.
Broadcasters say the hesitancy of some CBS affiliates to air a powerful Sept. 11 documentary next week proves there's been a chilling effect on the First Amendment since federal regulators boosted penalties for television obscenities after Janet Jackson's breast was exposed at a Super Bowl halftime show.
Even the symbol of new beginnings at ground zero wasn't immune from the realities of redesign and renegotiation. The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower, the soaring skyscraper that will replace the fallen twin towers at the World Trade Center, was quietly and temporarily removed from the site Friday, nearly two years after it was laid with much fanfare.
Death penalty in 9/11 trials may be difficult - Legal experts say Obama was overly confidentAfter Zacarias Moussaoui -- the accused "20th hijacker" in the Sept.
Climate change deniers are anti-science and anti-reason — and they terrify meSure, I could do something about this. I could pack in this journalism lark, go back to university, spend three years replacing my useless philosophy degree with something science-ish, then do a masters, and then do a PhD, probably in climatology. But I can't be arsed.
Seeing the Forest: Name It "The Bush Debt Tax"A common sense proposal.
At least two 9/11 plotters may plead insanityWhen five defendants are brought before a New York federal judge to face charges for the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the first question may be whether some of them are competent to stand trial at all.
Bush adminstration could have captured terrorist Osama Bin Laden in December 2001: Senate reportDoesn't surprise me.
9/11: Pentagon Aircraft Hijack Impossible On the morning of September 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 77 departed Dulles International Airport bound for Los Angeles at 8:20 am Eastern Time.
Why people believe in conspiraciesWhy do people believe in highly improbable conspiracies? In previous columns I have provided partial answers, citing patternicity (the tendency to find meaningful patterns in random noise) and agenticity (the bent to believe the world is controlled by invisible intentional agents …
Wikileaks publishes 500,000 pager messages sent on 9/11 - WikileaksMore than half a million pager messages sent on the day of the Sept 11 attacks – some by security officials in New York and the Pentagon – are being leaked onto the web.
9/11: The Unofficial Story (CBC documentary)Eight years after 9/11, why are doubts growing about the official record of that day?
Web site posts what it says are half million text messages from 9/11 - CNN.comNewly released text messages reportedly from the morning of September 11, 2001, show panicked family members trying to contact loved ones and officials frantically trying to grasp what was happening.
Works and Days » Where Has the Thrill Gone? by Victor Davis Hanson Millions of independents and swing voters went for Obama for five reasons: (1) they believed the media hype that Bush was the "worst" (fill in the blanks); (2) the sudden financial panic of September 2008 and the anger at Wall Street banditry and bail-outs; (3) Obama's yout …
Perino: No Terrorist Attack During Bush's TermLast night, former White House press secretary Dana Perino suggested that President Obama was "playing politics" by refusing to label the recent shootings at Fort Hood army base a terrorist attack. According to the Huffington Post, Ms.
The 00's : Call it the Decade from Hell, or the Reckoning, or the Decade of Broken Dreams, or the Lost Decade.Calling the 2000s "the worst" may seem an overwrought label in a decade in which we fought no major wars, in historical terms. It is a sadly appropriate term for the families of the thousands of 9/11 victims and soldiers and others killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
9/11 Never Forget Coalition Rally: Will You Attend? | The FOX Nation9/11 Never Forget Coalition Rally: Will You Attend?
It had to be a sign. Time to move the family to PakistanTo my London friends it is a land of beheadings and bombings, but I know it as a place where hope and tolerance can flourish...
A Plan C for AfghanistanWhen there is no good solution to a problem, a president has three options: to avoid the problem, to pick the least bad of the available options, or to mix and match among the proposed solutions and minimize the long-term damage any decision will cause.
Obama has recently indicated that he would like to increase troops into Afghanistan. Obviously, the world has changed dramatically since the fall of 2001. The world's perception on Americans has changed as well - for the worse.
UK Iraq war inquiry learns that British officials heard Bush-Cheney Admin 'drum beats' of war before 9/11 -- over TWO years before invasionSenior members of George Bush's U.S administration were already discussing 'regime change' in Iraq two years before the invasion of 2003, the official inquiry into the war was told today.
Please, Mr. Custer, We Don't Want To GoWhen the neo-Cons, a group of liberal Democrats, realized Margret Thatcher was right in saying, "The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money," they decided Liberalism is, as Michael Savage contends, a mental disorder.
War On Terror Brought Islam In Focus The events of 9/11 created dramatic changes in the lives of peoples all across the globe. A new term widely used TERRORISTS for Muslims, was spread like a virus. Instead of developing hate and fear, this event and vocabulary got more people to study and read about Islam.
A History of Aircraft Terrorism: It Didn't Start With 9/11Despite what many young Americans seem to think, aircraft sabotage did not begin with the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. It has been with us for decades. Here is a list of some of the worst air-related terrorist acts of the '70s, '80s and '90s.
ZIHOP as Limited HangoutThe Military Industrial Complex did not arise from some flaw in the American character, nor indeed from Zionism. It arose, simply put, because capital requires more capital, power more power still. Powerful states act out.
Eric Holder's Horrible HearingPeter Regan--who lost his dad, a New York firefighter, on 9/11--is disturbed by the plan on several fronts. After 9/11, the then 20-year-old joined the Marines, serving two tours in Iraq before coming back home to follow in his father's footsteps in the fire department.
DAWN.COM | Columnists | Smokers� Corner: Boxing the faithOnce upon a time, charity boxes of so-called Islamic welfare organisations were a ubiquitous sight at shops in our cities. These boxes were claimed to have been put there by the shopkeepers and Islamic welfare groups to raise money for the building of mosques and madressahs.
Obama, the Un-decider - The Daily BeastThe president's approach to the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed New York trial offers something for everyone—and decisions on nothing. Obama may be the anti-Bush, Lee Siegel argues—but he's failing to govern.
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