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What Are We Teaching Children About 9/11?Twenty-five years later, some instructional materials criticize America’s response to terrorism instead of informing students about the ideology and perpetrators of the attacks.September 11, 2026, marks 25 years since al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners and murdered nearly 3,000 innocent people in the deadliest terrorist attack in American history.A generation of students has grown up with no memory of that day. What they understand about it depends on what we choose to teach them. Judging by some of the materials available, Americans should be concerned.One of the nation’s most elite schools of education—the University...

Saudi Arabia’s critical East-West oil pipeline system was struck on Thursday, with multiple pumping stations hit in an attack that could threaten one of the kingdom’s most important crude export routes, according to CNN, citing two U.S. officials familiar with the matter... ...OilPrice.com reported that NASA FIRMS had detected multiple large fires near the East-West pipeline, while Sentinel-3 imagery appeared to show a massive plume of black smoke stretching across western Saudi Arabia. One U.S. official said the attack involved drones originating from Iraq, although responsibility for the strikes has not yet been established... ...It also remains unclear whether the...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were seen yukking it up during the somber reading of 9/11 victims at Ground Zero during the 25th anniversary service. The New York City Democratic Socialists of America darlings appeared all smiles in a live feed of the ceremony, interspersed with shots of a man cradling his head in his arms and bawling his eyes out and friends and family reading out the names of their departed loved ones from the podium.

The Heavy Yoke of 9/11 Twenty-five years after September 11, we’ve failed to confront the ideology that drove the terrorists.Twenty-five years ago this morning, 2,977 people were murdered in the space of 102 minutes. Most of them had gone to work. Some had boarded an airplane. Among them were 343 New York City firemen who climbed the stairs of the World Trade Center towers while everyone else came down, knowing what that act meant. Aboard a plane over Pennsylvania, 40 passengers and crew learned by telephone what was happening and took their plane back from the men who had...

Prices increases remained stubbornly high in August with little relief in sight for weary American consumers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that consumer prices rose by 0.4 percent in August month over month, leaving the annual CPI inflation rate at 3.4 percent, flat with the 3.4 percent figure in June. 'Apart from the hot core inflation, today’s data doesn’t even cover the most recent oil price spike above $100,' Nic Puckrin, markets expert and former Goldman Sachs analyst, told the Daily Mail. The August inflation numbers are the last impactful data report to come out before the Federal...

Remember all that weaponry Joe Biden’s administration ordered our soldiers to leave behind when we pulled out of Afghanistan? Well we just armed terrorist groups around the world. Sorry to spoil your morning coffee, but let’s recall that terrible day when thirteen U.S. soldiers were killed in Afghanistan. Remember that day when President Biden back in 2021 decided to walk away and leave a ton of military equipment behind? It was bad, really bad. Well, whatever happened to those weapons anyway? Many of us predicted that they’d fall in the hands of the bad guys. Here is one story I...

A new sculpture has been unveiled in London’s Trafalgar Square, where it will stand for the next two years. “Lady in Blue,” by New York-based artist Tschabalala Self, is a bronze statue of an anonymous young Black woman wearing a form-fitting blue dress, matching heels and glass beaded jewelry. She’s strong and she’s going places. It is the 16th statue to be installed on the so-called Fourth Plinth, as part of an ongoing public art commission first launched by the Royal Society of Arts and today supported by the Mayor of London, Arts Council England and Bloomsbury Philanthropies. “Lady...

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were caught laughing together at the 9/11 25th anniversary memorial service on Friday. The Democrats were seen bursting into laughter at the Ground Zero event in lower Manhattan, while the names of 9/11 victims were being read and mourners stood silently around them. At the same moment, loved ones of the victims of the attacks were reading names of the deceased, and others were seen crying at the memorial. It comes after Mamdani appeared at the event despite being urged not to attend by 9/11 victims groups, which he refused...

A wealthy Washington, D.C., suburb's public school district is advising teachers not to link 9/11 with radical Islam and to be sure to create "safe spaces" for Muslim students as the nation somberly marks the 25th anniversary of the terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans. The guardrails in a six-page instructional guide, "25th Anniversary and Commemoration of 9/11" and distributed to teachers, has prompted critics to accuse Fairfax County (Virginia) Public School's liberal leaders of coddling post-9/11 sensitivities rather than teaching history. "It's sort of a vanilla way to do things," retired Navy Vice Admiral Lou Crenshaw, who was...

For Immediate Release. September 5, 2006 In Their Own Words: What the Terrorists Believe, What They Hope to Accomplish, and How They Intend to Accomplish It The Terrorists On September 11 Osama Bin Laden: The 9/11 Attacks Were "An Unparalleled And Magnificent Feat Of Valor, Unmatched By Any In Humankind." BIN LADEN: "On the blessed Tuesday 11 September 2001 … they launched their attacks with their planes in an unparalleled and magnificent feat of valor, unmatched by any in humankind before them. … Yet with the destruction of the Twin Towers in New York, there occurred an even bigger destruction:...

AOC and Muslim mayor Mamdani seen here giggling and smiling as people are CRYING just feet away from them, as names are being read at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. Disgusting.

RSBN for complete coverage of the Pentagon observance ceremony with President Trump & The First Lady.

Room full of women on the Oprah show starts cheering after a doctor says that black female child murderers need to be supported too, not just the white child murderers like Lindsay Clancy. "I want us to have the same passion for [female child murderers] who don't look like Lindsay." "There are women of color sitting around this country in prisons for [murdering their children]. I just wanna remind us to have the pink shirts and the energy for them as well." Totally insane.

11 September 2026 Friday of week 23 in Ordinary Time St. Felix and Regula, ZurichReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First reading1 Corinthians 9:16-19,22-27We go into strict training, like fighters at the gamesI do not boast of preaching the gospel, since it is a duty which has been laid on me; I should be punished if I did not preach it! If I had chosen this work myself, I might have been paid for it, but as I have not, it is a responsibility which has been put into my hands. Do you know what my reward is? It...

Last September 11, every Muslim congressmember and some radical allies teamed up on a congressional resolution demanding reparations to Muslims for 9/11. House Resolution 741, introduced a week after the anniversary of September 11, claimed that “in the aftermath of September 11, 2001” Muslims “experienced hate and were targeted by the government” and called for “various forms of relief to support those affected.” The money would have potentially gone to Islamic groups listed as terror co-conspirators. While the resolution did not specify which “community-based organizations” that “center the experiences and demands of Arab, Muslim, Middle Eastern” and others would have...

Zohran Mamdani and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani were seen shaking hands outside of the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum today following a tense public spat about Ground Zero air quality.The former and current New York City mayors came to blows after Giuliani claimed it 'offended' him that Mamdani, the city's first Muslim mayor, would attend the 25th anniversary memorial service for lives lost in the terror attacks.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told the National Baptist Convention this week that she is “amazed watching how God works” in advancing progressive politics, citing organizing efforts in deep-red states. Speaking to the convention in Orlando, Florida, the New York Democrat framed a string of recent electoral developments in religious terms, describing them as the fruit of faith-based organizing during her 2024 rally tour with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). She recounted stops in states pundits called hopeless. “Why would you go to Idaho? Why would you go to Montana? Why would you go to Utah?” Ocasio-Cortez said. “I felt very called.”...

Vice president increasingly looks like presidential candidate, but some Republicans want Marco Rubio DALLAS—Vice President JD Vance looked very much like a presidential candidate-in-waiting at the Republican convention this week. He delivered a prime-time address, met with delegates from battleground states and headlined a high-dollar fundraiser with GOP donors.Vance’s Thursday night speech fired up the crowd, as he laid out his vision for the America he wants his children to grow up in, while painting Democrats as extreme. During the speech, audience members said the quiet part out loud, shouting “48!” Donald Trump is the 47th U.S. president, and the...