Negative Space: September 11
- Always Trust a Criminal
- Franklin said that those who give up freedom for a bit of temporary safety will lose both. But we now know that restoring freedom can give us true safety.
- Commemorate Patriot Day with Betsy Ross
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The Declaration of Independence overlaid on the Betsy Ross flag.
- The graphs of destruction
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Imagine a graph with two lines charted against the years: the resources needed to cause mass destruction, and the resources available to those who want to cause mass destruction. Those lines are dangerously close today.
- Mitt Romney: 9/11 mastermind
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Media accuses Governor Romney of plotting 9/11 to embarrass President Obama. Obama responds by freeing unjustly accused Omar Abdel-Rahman.
- Politico: Bush should have started war July 2001
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President George W. Bush ignored critical advice from intelligence advisor five months into presidency: “We need to go on a wartime footing now!”
- The Price of Prohibition
- If we wish to maintain prohibition, we have to understand that we are funding and nurturing terrorism.
More Information
- Flight 93 Memorial Speech, September 10, 2011
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“One of the lessons of 9-11 is that evil is real, and so is courage… Individual choices make a difference. The passengers of Flight 93 set an example that inspires us all.”
- The Face of the Tiger•
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Mark Steyn’s columns from just before September 11 to a year later. It’s an insightful look at how Americans responded to the September 11 attacks and how the world responded to Americans, written by a Canadian immigrant who maintains citizenship in two worlds, New Hampshire and Quebec.
- When I was a kid I was terrified of the End of the World
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“The End of the World now looks like a comic-book premise, a Heston-movie conceit. We feared it would all be gone in a day, our world upended like an Etch-A-Sketch. What we never considered was a long, slow war, a conflict that burned and sputtered, skittered from one spot on the map to the other. The old wars were simple: the other side had accents, uniforms, nations, cruel habits and urbane sneers. The old wars took years. The old wars were in black and white. The old wars were monophonic, scored by Max Steiner, released by Warner Brothers, and the only proof they really happened at all was the small battered box in the back of…”
