As I watch documentary recollections of 9/11, I remain of the opinion that it will be a nearly impossible task to contextualize the atrocity in any form of popular culture. That’s not to say it can’t happen, but to do
Ten years ago at this exact time I was standing in my pajamas in my living room with tears streaming down my face, my hair a wreck. I was a 21-year-old newlywed and mother. My months-old infant sat in a
On September 11, 2001, I was a left-wing freelance journalist spending a few days in the African ghetto of inner city Johannesburg as an escape from the previous week of antisemitic mayhem at the UN World Conference Against Racism in
Live coverage of 9/11 observations via CBS News.
In the same way he tried to capitalize on the horrific Tucson shooting as an excuse to attack Sarah Palin and conservatives, Paul Krugman has used his New York Times blog to attack Rudy Giuliani and President George W. Bush
9/11…A tragic day when Islamic terrorists from Al Qaeda hijacked commercial jets and used them to destroy the WTC, hit the Pentagon and crashed another hijacked plane in Shanksville, PA. 3,000 innocent lives, Americans and foreigners of all sizes, colors,
Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center was wildly disappointing. This film could have been the defining film of our times, but it ended up being nothing more than a generic disaster film. It’s a missed opportunity, which I think was brought
On this 10th Anniversary of the September 11th attack on America we’ll hear politicians and pundits wringing their hands over the “tragic events” of that morning. They’ll wonder aloud whether we’ve “learned anything” in these past ten years and whether
The most memorable article in the New Yorker issue devoted to 9/11, “Ten Years Later,” is Paul Goldberger’s review of the new World Trade Center. Goldberg dislikes the new buildings going up around Ground Zero, particularly the Freedom Tower, which
As a first responder paramedic and survivor of the 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center, the tenth anniversary has brought for me an unsettling feeling of fear that was unexpected. A fear that is not based on the
( I was asked to deliver some comments to a crowd that will gathering to memorialize the events of 9/11/2001. Unfortunately I will not be present to deliver them but I wanted to get these out in advance of the
President Obama used the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks to list his administration’s efforts in what he calls the “war against Al Qaeda”.
Looking back over the last 10 years and thinking about where many of us were and how we felt when the towers fell is surreal. These are sad thoughts. But what I find even more saddening is the fact that
A couple weeks ago my good friend and gifted songwriter/musician Andrew (BigDawg), Co-Founder of BigDawg Music Mafia, and I were tuned in to “America Akbar” on Radio Jihad Network, a weekly internet radio show hosted by our good friends Gadi
The National Football League avoided a potential public relations nightmare, and more importantly, did what was widely considered to be the right thing, announcing Friday that players may wear special shoes and gloves that differ from official NFL equipment for
The Bloomberg terms for this year’s 9/11 Memorial are not only wrong, they are spiritually, metaphysically and, even in Karl Marx’s terms, dialectically “unbalanced”. Bloomberg is courting an even worse disaster than 9/11. To bear false witness against God, of
Some U.S. airports have beefed up security after intelligence about a plot linked to the 9/11 anniversary targeting Washington D.C and New York City.
Many of you sent me a video of Herman Cain’s 9/11 tribute. Many individuals have made such tributes; they’re all over Youtube and making the rounds via email. There is no shame in honoring what we lost as a country
When I first saw Brian De Palma’s Scarface, a decidedly eighties remake of the classic Howard Hawks gangster movie, I loved it. I was a teenager, the perfect age to see Tony Montana’s dizzying rise in the Miami underworld, followed
Tonight on Secure Freedom Radio, Former Undersecretary of Defense, Douglas J. Feith joins Frank for two segments to discuss his book, War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism, and the how the decisions
This was going to be just one post on how great Hollywood has done with the 9/11 coverage and specials. But people on the left had to ruin it because Hollywood didn’t take advantage of this opportunity to take swipes
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Iran’s Ahmadinejad criticizes slaughter in Syria * Greece’s GDP fell by 7.3% in Q2 – more than expected * US investigates “specific, credible” terror threat for 9/11 * One, Two, Three … Infinity
George Soros has spent an inordinate amount of his life trying to change the landscape of economics to his benefit. Now he’s attempting to manipulate the sentiments surrounding the 9/11 anniversary. As the U.S prepares to acknowledge the 9-11 10th
The world is full of bad people but the good news is that here in America our First Amendment makes it easier to spot them. Via NBC: The festival, “9/11 Reclaiming the Truth, Reclaiming our Future,” is organized by the
Republican Bob Turner holds a 6-point lead over Democrat rival David Weprin, 50-44, in the race to replace Anthony Weiner in New York’s 9th congressional district, as the campaign heads into its final days ahead of the special election on
