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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.

By now, you've probably seen the conspiracy theory about the military shutting down the power grid and disabling all cell phones and computers.

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

As people decide whether to respond to the Orlando nightclub shooting on social media, others are fighting over who's saying what.

Just two months ago, the world was horrified by a photo of a lifeless 3-year-old boy whose body had washed up on the beach of Turkey. The child was identified as Aylan Kurdi, and CNN reported that Kurdi's brother, Galip, and their mother, Rehen, also died, according to Fin Donnelly,...

Cries of racism followed word of a Muslim student arrested for bringing a homemade clock to his school in Texas. Zero tolerance sometimes makes zero sense. A 14-year-old student Ahmed Mohamed was arrested Tuesday for bringing a homemade digital clock to school. Despite the skill and ingenuity involved in creating...

The story of the Boston Bombing survivor who left the set of NBC's Meet the Press in tears immediately had people throwing their support her way and the usual media-hating suspects taking the opportunity to blast NBC. But let's take a second look at what supposedly happened. First, let me...

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...

How do you define terrorism? It's a question some have asked since the Boston Marathon bombing and even before that. Do you really have to be sponsored by some formal foreign group before the label applies? I don't think so. I was just trying to get the dog a little...

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.

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 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....