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Holder Blames Congress Before Announcing Plan to Hold Military Tribunals for 9/11 Terror Suspects

April 4th, 2011 · No Comments

Only after claiming Congressional interference played a pivotal role in his decision, Attorney General Eric Holder announced today he will use military tribunals to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and several other alleged 9/11 terrorists. AG Holder’s decision comes barely two years after President Barack Obama’s Jan. 22, 2009, announcement that he would close the Guantanamo [...]

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Lobbyists, Lobbyists Everywhere!

April 4th, 2011 · No Comments

By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger The March 2 Open Secrets blog contains a report co-authored by Dave Levinthal and Craig Gurian.  The report is titled, “New Study: More Than 130 Top Congressional Staffers Are Former Lobbyists.” Wow!  So what do we do now?  Get the kids in off the street?  Take cover in a [...]

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9/11 Marks Opportunity to Stop Flight 93 Memorial

September 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment

With both Barbara Bush and Michelle Obama attending the ceremony in Somerset, Pa., to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Tom Burnett Sr. and Alec Rawls of the Error Theory blog are buying full-page color ads in the city’s Daily American Sept. 10 and 11.  The ads will serve as ready-made [...]

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Elena Kagan Lied to Supreme Court in 9/11 Case

June 29th, 2010 · No Comments

President Barack Obama’s latest Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, lied about the wording of a law that goes to the very heart of our ability to use the courts to combat Islamic terrorism. As Obama’s solicitor general, Kagan urged the Court to dismiss the suit that our 9/11 families have been pressing against the Saudi [...]

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Fort Hood: Separation of Mosque and State?

November 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment

By William J. Federer Guest Blogger Everyone has heard of separation of church and state, but what about separation of mosque and state? Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan (right) yelled “Allahu Akhbar,” Arabic for “Allah is great,” before killing 13 and wounding 31 at Fort Hood, Texas. He had praised Muslim suicide bombers on the Internet; [...]

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Taliban ‘Spins’ Facts During 45-Minute Interview

November 14th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Yesterday, I published a post about plans of the BBC’s World Have Your Say radio program to broadcast a 45-minute recording of a question-and-answer session with a representative of the Taliban.  Today, I had a chance to listen to a podcast of the session and found it worth sharing if, for no other reason, to [...]

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Video: Flight 93 Memorial Still Points to Mecca

November 13th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Just over 13 months ago, I published my first post about the controversy surrounding the Flight 93 Memorial.  On Nov. 21, 2007, I published an update on the project purported to honor the passengers who gave their own lives to prevent Islamic terrorists from flying a passenger aircraft into the nation’s capitol.  Today, thanks to [...]

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