I believe in the free speech that liberals used to believe in, the economic freedom that conservatives used to believe in, and the personal freedom that America used to believe in.
Since there isn’t anything better I can write about what September 11th means to me than what I wrote in 2007, here it is again.
This is the third fourth year that I’ve been blogging during the anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Each time I’ve tried, in one way or another, to articulate how that [...]
Plans to build a mosque and Islamic Community Center two blocks from the site of the former World Trade Center, have caused the anti-Muslim corner of the blogosphere to go just a little nuts:
New York (CNN) — Plans to build a mosque two blocks away from ground zero have set off an emotional debate among [...]
In one of the early Republican debates in the 2008 election cycle, Ron Paul and Rudy Giuliani sparred over the September 11th attacks and the role that U.S. foreign policy choices may have played in inciting the attacks:
On Iraq, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, the Libertarian candidate for president in 1988, stood alone in railing [...]
The President of Iran is crazier than we thought:
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the September 11 attacks on the United States a “big fabrication” that was used to justify the U.S. war on terrorism, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Ahmadinejad, who often rails against the West and Israel, made the [...]
The latest controversy of the day among many on the right, led principally by Liz Cheney and William Kristol, involves attacking Justice Department lawyers who represented alleged members of al Qaeda or the Taliban detained at Guantanmo Bay.
As Kristol puts it:
[L]awyers now at the DOJ worked on the historic Boumediene case. That case established the [...]
I told you so:
NEW YORK (AP) – A lawyer for one of five men facing trial for the Sept. 11 attacks says the men plan to plead not guilty and use the trial to express their political views.
Attorney Scott Fenstermaker says his client Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali and the others will not deny their role [...]
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