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We've reached that mysterious point with the September 11 attacks that we seem to make a bigger mention of them only in five-year intervals.

It's difficult to believe it has been a decade-and-a-half since the terrorist attacks of September 11th.

All this week, I'm highlighting the year's top posts in my key categories on the days those categories are most likely to be featured, and today I present my Top 10 Media Posts of 2013. Thursday is the day for media and TV-related posts. I went back to Google Analytics...

As 2013 comes to a close, I'm highlighting the year's top posts in my key categories on the days those categories are most likely to be featured, and today I present my Top 10 Talker Posts of 2013. I thought it would be interesting to look at the top posts...

The AT&T 9/11 ad featured a hand holding a cell phone over the Manhattan skyline with an image of the lights representing the missing twin towers of the World Trade Center on the phone’s screen. The company apologized for the ad and pulled it after angry complaints. Every September 11th,...

As we pause this Patriot Day to remember the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I thought I’d offer a few tidbits about the anniversary of that dark day and the holiday it has become since. As America was recovering from the shock of the terrorist attacks...

A Texas mom was all fired up, reports Glenn Beck’s The Blaze, over a question her child faced on a quiz that’s part of a “controversial curriculum” already under fire because of other exercises, including one that labels the Boston Tea Party as an “act of terrorism.” The question, she...

One of the big, albeit absurd, controversies from the second presidential debate Tuesday night was whether President Obama referred to the Benghazi attack as a “terrorist attack” when he addressed the nation from the White House Rose Garden on September 12th.

When there’s a terrible, traumatic event we collectively experience, we feel this need to commemorate the experience on each anniversary. We know that every 5th anniversary, we know more will be made of it than on those that fall in between. So what do we say on the 11th?

It’s practically a storyline from a sitcom: a pilot takes a potty break and ends up trapped in the bathroom when the door lock malfunctions. A passenger who happens to have a thick accent (of some kind) learns of the situation, and tries to relay what’s happening to the co-pilot....

I read several news stories and columns on Monday complaining about the amount of coverage devoted to the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. It wasn’t a shock at all to see such complaints.  People tire of such stories fairly quickly, especially if they don’t feel that...

I first told the story about what I was doing on the morning of September 11, 2001, on the same date in 2004, the first year in which this blog existed. Looking back on that post, I wanted to add a few thoughts now that it has been a full...

On the morning of September 11, 2001, then President George W. Bush was reading a book to a group of Florida school children in during a photo opportunity. Cameras were rolling as his chief of staff approached him, leaned down and whispered in his ear that America was under attack....

President Obama announced Wednesday that he will not release photos of the corpse of Osama bin Laden. While the decision will surely fuel a new round of conspiracy theorists who will argue that "they" must have something to hide, I think it was absolutely the right call to make. We...