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On 9/11, A Passenger and Flight Attendant Make Peace
By Mia Navarro - Politics DailyI had scheduled my flight back to New York without thinking about the date. On Thursday, as I wound up a work week in Arizona and started planning my return to the city, it finally dawned on me. "Darn, I'm flying on 9/11." I'm not sure what exactly I feared, but the "high" terror alert at the airport security checkpoint in Flagstaff did not make me feel any better. I usually feel like sheep when I fly. On Saturday, I felt the urge to quack. As it turned out, my flights to Phoenix and then on to New York on US Airways were right on schedule and just as packed with passengers as usual. We may ...
For Men Going to War, Thoughts of 9/11 and One Last 'Date Night'
By David Wood - Politics DailyLAKE CHARLES, La. -- There was some muttering in the ranks when the battalion commander scheduled a dress ball for 9/11. After all, this was one of the last weekends before the men of the 2nd Battalion of the 30th Infantry Regiment wrench themselves away from wives and babies and girl friends, and with heavy packs and body armor and weapons, depart for Afghanistan. Some of the soldiers wanted to go raise hell instead of dressing up and having to behave in front of the battalion commander and his wife. And besides, many of the young troops were in grade school when the Twin Towers were ...
Should the Media Have Covered Pastor Whatshisname?
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyThis week on Politics Daily's online weekend show, "Woman UP," Alex Wagner, Bonnie Erbé, our special guest, Walter Shapiro, and I discuss coverage of the obscure preacher who effectively held the country hostage by threatening to burn the Koran on the ninth anniversary of 9/11. Should we have covered him? Was Obama wrong to weigh in, and was Defense Secretary Robert Gates right to give him a call? Click play below to watch the video: Click here to follow Melinda Henneberger on Twitter. ...
Koran-Burning Threat Still Up in the Air; Imam Says He's Open to Meeting
By David Gibson - Politics DailyProspects for a negotiated end to the threatened 9/11 Koran-burning by a small Florida church appear to be ebbing and flowing by the hour. On Friday afternoon, Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Muslim leader behind a controversial Islamic center proposed near ground zero, said that contrary to claims by Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, he has no meeting planned with the Jones in New York on Sept. 11. "I am prepared to consider meeting with anyone who is seriously committed to pursuing peace. We have no such meeting planned at this time," Rauf said in a statement ...
In the 10th Year of War, a Harder Army, a More Distant America
By David Wood - Politics DailyThe U.S. Army now begins its 10th continuous year in combat, the first time in its history the United States has excused the vast majority of its citizens from service and engaged in a major, decade-long conflict instead with an Army manned entirely by professional warriors. This is an Army that, under the pressure of combat, has turned inward, leaving civilian America behind, reduced to the role of a well-wishing but impatient spectator. A decade of fighting has hardened soldiers in ways that civilians can't share. America respects its warriors, but from a distance. "They don't know ...
Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck to Commemorate 9/11 With 'Patriots' at Alaska Event
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailySarah Palin and Fox News personality Glenn Beck will commemorate the ninth anniversary of the 2001 terror attacks on America with "patriots" at an event far-removed from Ground Zero or their joint appearance in Washington last month. The two are reuniting in Anchorage, Alaska -- Palin's home state. "We can count on Glenn Beck to make the night interesting and inspiring, and I can think of no better way to commemorate 9/11 than together with patriots who will 'never forget,' " Palin said in a Facebook posting about the Saturday evening event at the Dena'ina Center in Anchorage. Unlike Beck's ...
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