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Remembering 9/11 and the Night at Shea Stadium That Brought Everyone Together
By Steve Phillips - AOL NewsThe morning of September 11, 2001 started a bit overcast. I left home at my normal time but anticipated a very busy day at work because I had organizational telemeetings scheduled for the entire day. Every Mets minor league club had its own time window in which we were going to discuss each player in the organization and their progress over the minor league season. The big league club was on the road in Pittsburgh. Normally I would listen to any number of radio stations on my drive into work. As I was approaching the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, which links the Bronx with Queens, I heard on a ...
Learning the Lessons of the Oklahoma City Bombing 15 Years Later
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyFifteen years after the Oklahoma City bombing that claimed 168 lives, the memory seemed so distant even in the state where it happened that Oklahoma officials earlier this month passed a law requiring the state's board of education to develop and teach courses about the death and destruction that occurred at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building at precisely 9:02 a.m. on Wednesday, April 19, 1995. Discussing the new measure at the Oklahoma City National Memorial, Gov. Brad Henry found it difficult to explain why the state had to mandate the teaching of a topic of such obvious local and ...
Probe Finds Credibility Issues With 9/11 Lawsuits
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK (Feb. 7) -- As the first cases in a massive battle over illnesses linked to 9/11 near trial, an Associated Press investigation has found that several of the initial 30 suits contain inconsistent or exaggerated claims about how the workers got sick or how much time they spent at ground zero. One demolition worker who said he developed health problems after toiling for six months in the toxic ruins of the World Trade Center has actually been severely ill since the 1990s. In a previous medical malpractice case, he said he was so sick between 2000 and 2003 that he couldn't work ...
Enough With Lament: Why This Decade Should Be Celebrated
By Andrew Clark - Politics DailyNow that the eve of a new decade is upon us, the pundits are looking back at the 2000s, and they're judging it a train wreck. Time Magazine heralded the goodbye to the Decade From Hell, calling it the "most dispiriting and disillusioning decade Americans have lived through in the post-World War II era," going so far as to create a slide show titled "The 10 Worst Things About the Worst Decade Ever." In a clever wordplay, the Washington Post lamented that the decade should not be called the Aughts, but the "Oughts," in memoriam of all the achievements that "ought" to have happened in the 2000s, ...
Steny Hoyer Defends NYC Terror Trials: 'Holder Made the Right Decision'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyHouse Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the second-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, Tuesday defended Attorney General Eric Holder's recent announcement that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 masterminds will be tried in a civilian criminal court in New York City rather than before a military tribunal. "There is bipartisan support for the actions that the attorney general has determined are in the best interests of bringing these heinous acts to justice," Hoyer said. "We are agreed with the attorney general and the president that this can be done consistent with the ...
Arabs in Military Try to Rise Above Massacre
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Nov. 6) -- The shooting rampage at Fort Hood could make life noticeably more difficult for Arabs and Muslims serving in the U.S. military. Soon after the killings, witnesses said that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged gunman, had shouted "Allahu Akbar," the Arabic phrase for "God is great," as he fired. Meanwhile, a video played repeatedly on cable television of him wearing the white dishdasha and skullcap of an observant Muslim. The clip was recorded just hours before the attack that killed 13 people and wounded at least 28 others, reports said. For those who believe Muslims ...
U.S. Charges Afghan-Born Airport Employee With Bombing Plot
By David Sessions - Politics DailyAn Afghan-born Colorado airport shuttle bus driver has been charged with conspiring to carry out a bombing attack in the United States. He is accused of acquiring bomb-making chemicals similar to the ones used in the 2005 London transit attacks. Najibullah Zazi, 24, already under arrest in Colorado on another charge, was charged in a grand jury indictment unsealed in New York on Thursday with suspicion of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. Security experts have said that the case, if proven, will be the most significant terrorist threat on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001. ...
Van Jones, Obama's Green Jobs Advisor, Under Fire for '9/11 Truther' Past
By David Sessions - Politics DailyAnthony "Van" Jones, a special advisor for green jobs to the Obama administration, has come under fire for his participation with the "9/11 Truth" movement, which promotes the notion that the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were an inside job by the U.S. government. Jones was on the organizing committee for a 2002 "truth" march in San Francisco, and was one of 100 notable signatories of a "9/11 Truth Statement," calling for an investigation into the terrorist attacks. ...
Flyover of Lower Manhattan Shows Callous Disregard for Public Safety at FAA
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyCORRECTION: An earlier version of this story reported that the Department of Homeland Security was responsible for telling local authorities not to alert the public about the flyover. That information was incorrect. It was the FAA that requested the event be unpublicized. The article has been changed accordingly.Now that it is over, perhaps officials in the Federal Aviation Administration can sit back and laugh at the boneheaded decision to stage a publicity photo shoot of a jumbo jet-liner being chased by fighter jets while flying low over lower Manhattan. But the fact that today's incident ...
Ari Fleischer Strikes Out While Defending Bush Legacy
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyOn Hardball yesterday, there was a considerable amount of give and take between host Chris Matthews and former Bush Press Secretary Ari Fleischer. While Fleischer stayed in the game by splitting hairs between stupidity and dishonesty, and by painting himself as Chris Matthews' victim, he strikes out with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth.It's a long clip, full of thrusts and parries, but Fleischer gives himself away in the interview's closing seconds: .msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; ...
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