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This is why you don’t debate with talking points with a person of Condi Rice’s intellect. Some have called this a spanking. I call it a a lesson in bad interviewing. If this were one of Condi’s classes, Lawrence O’Donnell would be clapping erasers after class. IF you watch nothing else today, please watch this, and listen, and enjoy. Allahpundit at Hot Air gives O’Donnell props just for having Rice on. But I don’t think if you call yourself a journalist, you pat yourself on the back just because you take on an opponent face-to-face.

Upon waking up this morning, and being told by a family member that the master-mind of the horrific September 11, 2001, attacks, Osama Bin Ladin has been killed in an American military operation in Abbottabad in northwestern Pakistan. Truly today in the United States of America, this is a very good day, at last, JUSTICE HAS BEEN DONE. JUSTICE HAS BEEN DONE by having Osama Bin Ladin hunted down and killed for the families and friends of the 3,000 people who were killed on September 11, 2001, ten years ago this coming September 11, 2011.

Americans tonight are united in celebration and gratitude. God bless all the brave men and women in our military and our intelligence services who contributed to carrying out the successful mission to bring bin Laden to justice and who laid the groundwork over the years to make this victory possible. It’s a testament to the hard work and dedication of these brave Americans who relentlessly hunted down our enemy. This is a victory for the American people, for the victims who were heartlessly murdered on September 11 and in Al Qaeda’s other numerous attacks, and for all the peace-loving people...

The U.S. government for the first time has released in full the evidence against the organizers of the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks, Agence France-Presse reported on Sunday, April 10th. The data was made public just as U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was referring the case to the Defense Department. The terrorists will be judged by a military tribunal in Guantanamo, rather than in a civilian criminal court in the United States. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, Wallid bin Attash, and Mustapha al-Hawsawi are considered the organizers of the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks. For a...

President Barack Obama's adviser on Muslim affairs, Dalia Mogahed, has provoked controversy by appearing on a British television show hosted by a member of an extremist group to talk about Sharia Law. Miss Mogahed, appointed to the President's Council on Faith-Based and Neighbourhood Partnerships, said the Western view of Sharia was "oversimplified" and the majority of women around the world associate it with "gender justice". The White House adviser made the remarks on a London-based TV discussion programme hosted by Ibtihal Bsis, a member of the extremist Hizb ut Tahrir party. The group believes in the non-violent destruction of Western...

Tow truck driver T. J Gilmartin hauled away destroyed FDNY vehicles from Ground Zero after 9/11, and now suffers diminished lung capacity and multiple breathing problems. He told the Daily News about his recent trip to Capitol Hill, where he hoped to sway Senators to vote in favor of the Zadroga 9/11 health bill, which will provide money and health care to sick first responders. While he noted many positive experiences with most of the Senators--he called Sens. Jeff Sessions and Richard Shelby of Alabama "gentlemen"--he says his interaction with Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) did not go as well. "I...

We concur with North Carolina's Renee Ellmers that "The terrorists haven't won. We should tell them in plain English, 'No; there will never be a mosque at Ground Zero.'" Ellmers spoke with Freedom Radio about the mosque and her campaign to unseat Congressman Bob Etheridge: Last year, eight Muslim residents of her Congressional district were arrested for plotting to attack the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Virginia which demonstrated the threat posed by the rise of radical Islamists here is a national security concern. Her opponent for North Carolina's 2nd District seat, Congressman Bob Etheridge, reportedly "has never thought building...

The 9 News link came to me via my Google alert for 'September 11'. As you will see, the museum also contains a gallery on that subject. In a city-owned museum in Loveland, Colorado, where school children often make field trips, there is a 12-panel lithograph entitled "The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals" which the artist defends and the city refuses to remove. Not everyone there is amused. "It depicts clearly a picture of our Lord Jesus Christ engaging in an oral sex act with another person," says Deacon Ed Armijo of St. John's The Evangelist Catholic Church. Deacon Armijo...

Anjem Choudary, former spokesman for the radical Muslim group Islam4UK, and his followers burned the U.S. and British flags outside the U.S. embassy in London on September 11. The group was banned this past year on January 12 by the British government under counter-terrorism laws. However, the then British Home Secretary Alan Johnson said: “It is already proscribed under two other names – Al Ghurabaa and The Saved Sect”. According to the group, this was done as a counter-protest to the planned Quran burning in the United States– that never actually happened. (Jump below video to read more on the...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) – The publisher of a Maine newspaper has apologized for giving Page One coverage to the end of Ramadan on Sept. 11 without mention of the ninth anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks. Saturday’s print edition of The Portland Press Herald featured a front-page photo of Muslims praying at the end of the Muslim holy month. It published coverage of events marking the anniversary of the terrorist attacks the next day. Editor and publisher Richard Connor issued a front-page apology to readers who were offended. Connor says the celebration by 3,000 Muslims at the Portland Expo warranted...

9/11/01 will remain one of the worst days in American history. Along with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, the date of September 11th will not be forgotten by Americans who lived through that awful day. Yet, it must be noted; nine years later we still will not define those responsible. I do not support any conspiracy theory (governments are too incompetent to carry out any conspiracy), but it must be said that nobody in power correctly identifies our enemy and his nature. President Bush called them "evil-doers", and they were that. President Obama called them the...

I came across this song on the radio today, and I found it really poignant. I decided to translate it, and post it here, on FR, to show you, that we in Poland are with you on this sad day. God bless United States of America and the American people. Cezary Makiewicz „11 Września”„September 11th” Nie miałem tam nikogo z bliskich, I didn’t have my beloved ones among them Nikogo kogo bym choć znał, No one, I’d even know Widziałem tylko w telewizji, I only saw it on TV A jednak sercem byłem tam. Yet –I was there with my...

I wrote this column seven years ago, on the 2nd anniversary of the 9/11 jihadi attacks. Sad to say, I could have just as well written it today. Spitting on their graves by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate 9/10/03 Across the nation, public officials will strike somber poses and shed television-friendly tears and bow their blow-dried heads in memory of the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks. They’ll hold hands, light candles, and pass around a plateful of platitudes: “Never forget,” they’ll intone. “Let’s roll,” they’ll thunder. “God bless America,” they’ll warble in perfect harmony. They’ll assure us that they...

"...Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours..." Revelation 14:13 "O one, O only mansion, O Paradise of joy, Where tears are ever banished And smiles have no alloy! The Lamb is all thy splendor, The Crucified thy praise; His laud and benediction Thy ransomed people raise. With jasper glow thy bulwarks, Thy streets with em'ralds blaze; The sardius and the topaz Unite in thee their rays; Thine ageless walls are bonded With amethyst unpriced; The saints build up thy fabric, The cornerstone is Christ. Thou...

Exactly nine years ago to the minute, hundreds of people were dying. Many died of burns, trauma, or smoke inhalation. Just minutes later would almost 3,000 in total be murdered by an imperialist attack by the forces of Islamist terrorism. People jumped from the Towers in order to not suffer burns any longer-- people walked stunned over the Brooklyn Bridge-- over 200 firefighters did not return home. And few remember. We should be ashamed of ourselves. In the days following the attacks of September 11th, 2001, some of the most parroted lines were "Lest we forget" and "Never forget." By...

Dina Abdalla tries to laugh when her friends poke fun, asking if she's a terrorist plotting an attack on Waubonsie Valley High School in Aurora. She tries to have a sense of humor. At the same time, she doesn't find it funny. When asked about the real terrorists who attacked the United States on September 11, 2001, Abdalla responds without hesitation.

The pastor at the centre of the Koran-burning row has challenged a New York Imam to call off the building of a mosque at Ground Zero. Pastor Terry Jones and his colleague Pastor K A Paul read out their telephone number live on television and said the Imam has just two hours to respond. "It appear that the pastor has reconsidered his earlier deal over the New York mosque."

WASHINGTON — According to the "experts," anyone older than 10 will remember traumatic events for the rest of their lives. That's certainly true of the thousands of World War II veterans and family members I have met doing interviews for our "War Stories" series on Fox News Channel. All of them can recall where they were when they learned of the attack on Pearl Harbor, whom they were with and what was said. It should be the same for the terror attack nine years ago on Sept. 11. My friend Tom Kilgannon, president of Freedom Alliance, and I clearly remember...

What is it with General David Petraeus, head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan? Has he not heard of the Constitution? Let me explain what I mean. Now we are at the nine-year anniversary of the horrible 9/11 terrorism that killed over 3,000 Americans. Various people are marking the event's anniversary in various ways. One of the kookier ways is that a small church in Gainesville, Florida is hosting -- or is planning to host -- a burning of the Islamic Holy Book, the Koran. The burning, a nutty idea, is to protest the church's views of Islam as intolerant.This is...

Anyone who disagrees with President Obama has been labeled a “racist”. Those who attend tea parties have been labeled “Nazi”. If you don’t like what this administration has done, and speak out against it, according to the Speaker of the House, you are “unamerican”. Taxes must be raised on the “rich” as, according to our President, they are the “greedy” ones who sit back and reap their rewards off the backs of the “poor”. Let’s forget for the moment that the “poor” wouldn’t have a job, but for the “rich”. We have an Imam who wants to build a Mosque...