Reliving 9.11.01

Editor’s note: It’s with pleasure that I introduce to you an old friend of mine… and a new author here at BitsBlog… Maribeth Achim.

Maribeth has always been a creative sort, and so when I told her about this website

Amazing. Seems that every time the left in this country builds up a little momentum in the department of telling us how we’re not in danger from terrorism, one of these stories pops up.

ROMULUS, Mich. -AP- An attempted terrorist

From  the NewsReal Blog:

Toymaker Mattel Inc. has given its best-selling Barbie doll a makeover in honor of her 50^th anniversary.

Meet Burkha Barbie, garbed in traditional Islamic Dress. On sale now.

I have to say that it

An outright brilliant column from Doctor Charles Krauthammer this morning:

For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the “propaganda of the deed.” And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 — not just the most destructive, but the most spectacular and

With the ruling, yesterday, from Atty General Eric Holder that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed will be tried in New York City, in a civilian court, Americans should begin to notice a pattern from the Obama administration of running in exactly the

Radicial Islam has been waging war on the United State at least since 1993.

Yet the dim one, b/k/a President Barack Obama continues to find attacks against in and against our country to be “incomprehensible.”    Claudia  Rosett, Forbes, try

The purpose of an Army has been described as kill people and break things.   As such people who excel at leading units dedicated to such tasks, killing people and breaking things, are not noted for nuance.   Case in point,  William

C.J. Burch, a Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit,  coins what I will call the Obama doctrine:

“Ah, but those middle class protesters are a threat to politicians’ power.  Terrorists are just a threat to their constituents’ lives. See the difference?”

The

There are lots of conflicting reports on the number of victims of  Nidal Malik Hasan and his bloody ramage at Ft Hood yesterday.  the most reliable reports that I’ve found suggest that there’s 13 dead as of this morning

Reposted from 9/13/01

It is recorded in our history books that when he looked down at the ship full of smiling, victorious faces… faces of his flyers, just having returned from Pearl Harbor, Japanese fleet Admiral Yamamoto was quiet, pensive,

An interesting, if occasionally infuriating piece from Michael Ledeen at Pajamas Media this morning.  A snip and a couple comments:

I studied fascism primarily because I wanted-desperately-to understand how so many people could have appeased it.  Did they-and by

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.    I am going to keep this calm because I respect the calm, rational, historically informed, and politically ascute response of the Secure Arkanas rally, from Keep Arkansas Legal:

Secure

It’s time we faced things for what they are.
And, what they are not.

Good for the Italians!

ROME (AP) — Italy has pulled out of a U.N. conference on racism seen by many Western governments as being hijacked by Muslim attempts to attack Israel and shield Islam from criticism.    Foreign Minister Franco Frattini

Something I found while scouring the Buffalo News sources for info on the plane crash of last evening… found in The Buffalo News:

Orchard Park police are investigating a particularly gruesome killing, the beheading of a woman, after her