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TOPSFIELD (WBZ) Students at Mascanomet High School place flags to honor the victims of September 11 Mascanomet High School senior Olivia O'Malley wants to make sure nobody ever forgets what happened on September 11, 2001. Armed with a box of American flags, she began her mission on Thursday to plant a flag for each person who lost their life 8 years ago. "We can never forget it started as an ordinary day." Olivia has been planting flags on the lawn at Mascanomet High School each year as a reminder. She says her mission began three years ago when, on the...

The Pittsburgh Steelers’ Troy Polamalu, suffered a knee injury in last night’s victory game against the Tennessee Titans. And according to nfl.fanhouse.com, it is uncertain at the time, how serious the injury is, although Troy will undergo more tests today. Troy was not seen in the locker room after the game, as he was getting treatment on a sprained MCL in his left knee instead. Polamalu was apparently injured late in the first half, when a player landed on his left leg, in a pile up for a loose ball.

Yesterday, with the nerve of a Soviet apparatchik announcing a phantom bumper crop, your administration took credit for 1 million jobs saved or created since the stimulus package was enacted. And, Apparently you’re planning a major address on Monday to mark the anniversary of the Lehman Brothers Collapse, probably to take credit for “taking us back from the brink.” Well, we’re just tickled for you. It seems you're having a great crisis. But, while you’re creating phantom jobs or jobs in the public sector, to paraphrase Joe Pesci in My Cousin Vinny, the rest of us are dyin’ out here......

CIA Director Leon Panetta addressed agency staff in an e-mail today marking the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks tomorrow. With the CIA facing scrutiny over Bush-era torture of detainees and questions about how it should share responsibilities with the FBI and other federal agencies, Panetta used the opportunity to try to boost morale and rally employees. Panetta's full message is included below: Message from the Director: September 11th Tomorrow, our nation as a whole will remember those lost to us eight years ago. For the men and women of the CIA, September 11th is a constant, powerful incentive in...

Tributes will be held around New Zealand on Friday, in memory of those who lost their lives in the September 11 terror attacks in New York, eight years ago. A memorial will be held at Christchurch's Firefighters Reserve, while in Auckland, 60 fire fighters will climb the floors of the BNZ Tower. Nearly 3,000 people died in what was the world's worst terrorist attack after the hijacking of four passenger jets in the US. Two planes brought down New York's iconic Twin Towers. Another plane flew into the Pentagon and United flight 93 crashed into a field after passengers tried...

Rarely seen amateur footage of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York has been released on as part of the launch of a new website, that aims to bring together images and stories from the day. The rarely seen views of the attacks, one of the most recorded events of all time, are among hundreds of hours of amateur videos, images and stories gathered by the foundation building the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. The foundation's website has photographs, video and audio recollections by professional photographers, fleeing trade centre workers and witnesses who recorded...

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Have you heard about the latest Obama czar to stir up controversy for his extreme policy positions and radical affiliations? I’m not talking about Van Jones, the recently deposed “Green Jobs Czar.” Sure Jones has an affinity for Marxist ideology and dabbles in 9/11-was-an-inside-job lunacy. But this guy makes all the fuss surrounding Jones look downright humdrum by comparison. He’s got ties to domestic terrorists, believes babies who survive abortions do not deserve protection and for decades embraced a mentor who thinks America deserved what it got on that horrific day eight years ago. And he’s the most powerful czar...

The Jihadi attacks against New York and Washington created an unforgettable date in the collective psyche of Americans: this nation was bled by men indoctrinated by an ideology that, both in its texts and in its actions, knows no mercy for free societies. The terrifying three numbers and a hyphen 9-11 took their place in the country's national identity, alongside Pearl Harbor in the high drama of American history. But 9-11 became also a benchmark to other nations and regions of the world. In Europe, Russia, and India, civil societies began identifying the date 9/11with their own subsequent traumas. Madrid...

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Add another Obama insult to injury on 9-11. First, he desecrated the memory of 9-11 with his planned proclamation of his mandatory civilian service on 9-11, which he has designated a "National Day of Service." And now 9-11 has yet another title: State Department personnel are supposed to pray with Muslims on the newly declared "Interfaith Day of Service," whatever that means on 9-11. September 11, which should be a somber day of mourning and reflection (on how the hell we got here), will be a day when Obama -- in a celebratory mode -- makes his big announcement. The...

On the anniversary of its darkest day, the FDNY is launching a state-of-the-art boat designed to quickly respond should the unthinkable happen again. The boat "343," named after the number of Fire Department members killed in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, will be christened Friday in Florida and soon after move to the forefront of a fleet of boats charged with patrolling the 562 miles of city coastline. The primary mission of the $27-million boat was born eight years ago, when the older FDNY Marine 1 - the John D. McKean - raced to the burning Trade Center and evacuated...

I just watched Bill O'Rielly talk with George Stephanopolis and I was struck with a sense of deja-vu. I have seen this BS before and steffi was on the inside that time. I find it impossible to believe that this excuse for a journalist has more than 20 viewers outside of the beltway and New York. The boy is about as objective about politics as my 18 year old cat is about home life. I mean, as long as she has a clean box, food and water, she is happy, but this nitwit is happy with nothing more than re-processed...

In his Wednesday speech, President Obama fired up the troops on the urgency of re ducing the number of uninsured in this country and achieving universal coverage via insurance regulations and forcing all Americans to buy insurance. Under his plan, insurers would be faced with "guaranteed issue" and "community rating." In other words, they wouldn't be allowed to deny insurance based on a pre-existing condition, take coverage away in the middle of a treatment, set a premium based on one's medical history or set lifetime caps on coverage. If there were a "guaranteed issue" law for fire insurance, no one...

Every commemoration of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 reveals our confusion. Eight years after 9-11, we are still asking ourselves too many questions, and in those questions are embedded the reasons the war has gone on so long. Who is this enemy and why do they want to harm us, many ask. If you can’t define the enemy, you cannot defeat him. Where are we this year in the confrontation with the forces that caused us harm and want to defeat us? Are we making progress in the war against the “terror forces;” are we far from victory;...

As I'm sure you know, meteorology is an inexact science due to the large number of variables involved in predicting and understanding the weather. I frequently say that weather forecasting is a humbling endeavor, and I have learned to respect its challenges. From this perspective, you might be able to better understand why I wince when hearing pronouncements such as "the science is settled", "the debate is over", or even the "the temperature in the 2050s is projected to be..." I realize that forecasting climate and weather are different, but both involve a large number of moving parts. There are...

OK, President Obama has had his say on health care. Now let's look at some inconvenient truths. Obama insisted Wednesday that his public-option plan would save tax dollars, while not adding "one dime" to the deficit. Moreover, he said, "nothing in our plan requires you to change what [health insurance] you have." The first claim is demonstrably false; the second, profoundly misleading. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has reported that the House Democratic bills would add $220 billion to the deficit over the next decade -- and even more after that.

The latest American official to be targeted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for exercising his freedom of speech is the mayor of Clarksville, Tenn., Johnny Piper. CAIR joined Clarksville-area Muslims in scolding Piper for forwarding an e-mail that protests against an Islamic stamp issued by the U.S. Postal Service. Too many politically correct officials cower before CAIR. They accept its self-definition as a civil rights organization (which it is not) and ignore the facts that it is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas funding caseand that sevveral of its officials have been convicted of terrorism-related offenses. But Piper...

Eight years ago today, our homeland was attacked by fanatical Muslims inspired by Saudi Arabian bigotry. Three thousand American citizens and residents died. We resolved that we, the People, would never forget. Then we forgot. We've learned nothing. Instead of cracking down on Islamist extremism, we've excused it. Instead of killing terrorists, we free them. Instead of relentlessly hunting Islamist madmen, we seek to appease them. Instead of acknowledging that radical Islam is the problem, we elected a president who blames America, whose idea of freedom is the right for women to suffer in silence behind a veil -- and...

Eight years ago, on an ordinary Tuesday morning, nearly 3,000 lives were lost in the deadliest attack on American soil in our history. It was an event that forever changed the life of this city. And it was a tragedy that will be forever seared in the consciousness of our nation. Every year on this day, we are all New Yorkers.