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After weeks of avoiding the battle over whether or not building a giant mosque just feet away from Ground Zero is appropriate, Obama finally came out Friday to defend the building of the mosque.   Read more »

The construction of a $100 million project, which includes a mosque and 13-story Muslim community center, is scheduled to begin on September 11, 2011, just a few hundred feet from Ground Zero. This has caused public concern and discontent among the families who lost loved ones in the 9/11 attacks.   Read more »

The construction of a $100 million project, which includes a mosque and 13-story Muslim community center, is scheduled to begin on September 11, 2011, just a few hundred feet from Ground Zero. This has caused outrage from the families who lost loved ones in the 9/11 attacks.   Read more »

(The late Richard Nadler was a close friend and mentor to me and others including John Berlau of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Ramesh Ponnuru of National Review. His death last summer left a void in the conservative movement, but many of his ideas are valid and form a road to a conservative resurgence.)

Since the 1950s, American conservatism based its ideals upon the holy trinity of libertarian economics, aggressive anti-communism and social conservatism into a fusionist vision overseen by William F. Buckley, the pope of the conservative movement.

In an interview with Glenn Beck this morning, Debra Medina is asked whether she is a 9/11 truther to which she cannot give a straight answer:   Read more »

Today, I released the following statement regarding legislation I have cosponsored to bar taxpayer dollars from funding the trial of 9/11 terrorists in civilian court:   Read more »

Today, I issued the following statement in response to reports that the Obama Administration is considering transferring the notorious Bali nightclub bomber, responsible for the deaths of 202 people, including 7 Americans, from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to Washington, D.C. for trial:   Read more »

Today, I questioned Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano during a committee hearing in which she admitted that she was not consulted about the decision to bring Guantanamo Bay detainees, including the self-described mastermind of 9/11, to New York to be tried in a civilian court.   Read more »

9/11 eight years on. Do yourself a favor and check out Allahpundit's twitter feed here. He had moved into an apartment in lower Manhattan in July 2001.  

He woke up at 8:45 AM that morning thinking that a truck had wrecked on the street below his apartment. He was wrong.    

What do you remember about 9/11?   Read more »