War on Terror
I know it’s the economy and we’re all war weary, but we can’t ignore foreign policy. Benghazi has shown that. So does the current state of Afghanistan. The reason we got into Afghanistan–the support provided to Al Qaeda by the Taliban–still exists. CBS News correspondent Lara Logan did a report for “60 Minutes” a couple…
No deep theme, today, but bad British commentary, union priorities, stimulus as wishlist, the fame of Dinesh, and a response to Dan Yorke’s Congressional District 1 analysis.
When it happened, I was sitting at work, much as I will be today. I had a wife, a 2 year old and a 1 year old. As it would turn out, I wasn’t personally–directly–affected by the tragic events on 9/11. That puts me in the majority. Yet, like everyone, my life and that of…
We saw bumper stickers and signs that proclaimed “Never Forget”, but of course as time goes on, people do. Those that were too young to remember any part of it will just look back at it like the moon landing for me. It’s just something they hear the older people talk about and what they…
Eleven years ago this morning, the weather was very similar to today’s. “Governor Lincoln Chafee has called for a statewide moment of silence at 8:46 a.m. on Tuesday, the 11th anniversary of the attacks. He has also ordered flags to be flown at half staff” — 9:03 a.m. — 9:43 a.m. — At 9:57 a.m.,…
Today’s short takes address misleading labeling at the DNC, misleading fact-checking, fading national competitiveness, and the September 10 mentality.
A group of Rhode Island State Representatives (Dan Gordon, R-Portsmouth/Tiverton/Little Compton; Jack Savage R-East Providence; Raymond Hull, D-Providence; John Carnevale, D-Providence/Johnston and Donald Lally, D-Narragansett/North Kingstown/South Kingstown) has introduced a resolution into the RI House (H7916) condemning the section of the Federal Government’s 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) pertaining to the detention of persons…
It’s been winding down for months now and today it became official: the War in Iraq is officially over. The Washington Post, perhaps, summarized it most accurately: The American war in Iraq came to an unspectacular end Thursday at a simple ceremony held on the edge of Baghdad’s international airport, not far from the highway…
Like Andrew, I remember all the particulars of that day. I was editing part time from home, and the Providence school system hadn’t called in my wife, five months pregnant with our first child, as a substitute teacher, so we were both home. I had just begun my morning workout on the machine in my…
At work, a co-worker had bought a television and set it up in the break room, so that everyone could follow the news of the attacks. All of the networks were into continuous coverage by now. I remember stopping by the break room at one point and watching a crawl go across the bottom of…
