September 11, 2010 – 8:14 am
This is Brooke Alexandra Jackman. She was born August 28, 1978. She was murdered by Islamic extremists September 11, 2001, while working at Cantor Fitzgerald, where she worked as an assistant trader. She was just 23. After reading so many touching stories and tributes about Brooke, I feel I almost know her. Her smile is […]
August 28, 2010 – 5:11 pm
Nice After nearly nine years, life is returning to ground zero in a tangible way. Crews Saturday began planting 16 swamp white oaks at the World Trade Center site. They are the first of nearly 400 trees to be planted around the eight-acre memorial to the nearly 2,800 people were killed when terrorists attacked the […]
May 26, 2010 – 9:30 am
All I have to say is, this is very disappointing. Oh, and despicable After a raucous hearing, a Manhattan community board backed a proposal on Tuesday evening to build a Muslim community center near the World Trade Center. The 29-to-1 vote, with 10 abstentions, followed a four-hour back-and-forth between those who said the community center […]
May 19, 2010 – 7:28 am
No. Seriously. Thomas Friedman actually goes there: Obama And The Oil Spill President Obama’s handling of the gulf oil spill has been disappointing. I say that not because I endorse the dishonest conservative critique that the gulf oil spill is somehow Obama’s Katrina and that he is displaying the same kind of incompetence that George […]
May 15, 2010 – 9:30 am
Remember back on May 7th, when I mentioned that there is a mosque planned to be built two blocks from the site of the World Trade Center? Yeah, it gets better A mosque rises over Ground Zero. And fed-up New Yorkers are crying, “No!” A chorus of critics — from neighbors to those who lost […]
May 7, 2010 – 9:30 am
CNN seems almost confused and incredulous that people would have a problem with this idea, since Muslims died in the terror attack on 9/11, too Plans to build a mosque two blocks away from ground zero have set off an emotional debate among area residents and relatives of victims of the September 11, 2001 terror […]
March 11, 2010 – 9:30 am
Could this be considered a case of political correctness, or, simply a case of “some ideas are so stupid that I’m not sure how you actually did this“? Saskatchewan’s opposition New Democratic Party is slamming an advertisement distributed in a government-held constituency announcing a fundraising dinner that includes an image of the twin towers of […]
February 22, 2010 – 4:41 pm
Facepalm A lingering technical question about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks still haunts some, and it has political implications: How did 200,000 tons of steel disintegrate and drop in 11 seconds? A thousand architects and engineers want to know, and are calling on Congress to order a new investigation into the destruction of the Twin […]
February 10, 2010 – 4:08 pm
After all this time, still shocking and saddening Newly released aerial photos of the World Trade Center terror attack capture the towers’ dramatic collapse, from just after the first fiery plane strike to the apocalyptic dust clouds that spread over lower Manhattan and its harbor. The images were taken from a police helicopter — the […]
November 13, 2009 – 10:00 am
File this under “are you fracking kidding me?” Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, and four other men accused in the plot will be prosecuted in federal court in New York City, a federal law enforcement official said early on Friday. As Jammie Wearing Fool points out, this is going […]
