9-11

Honesty Is The Best Policy

Thursday, March 23rd, 2023

While honesty is the best policy, it doesn’t always make the best politics.  Twenty years ago, President George W. Bush lied about Iraq.  The invasion made conservatives happy but was a disaster for America, Iraq and the entire Middle East. George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice told America and the […]

A More Perfect Union

Thursday, February 9th, 2023

It shouldn’t surprise you that some reporters, talk show hosts and columnists are lazy.  They find a meme and then plug in a detail.   The meme today is the phrase “Washington is broken.” This phrase allows the speaker to avoid taking responsibility for a judgment or prediction.  It opens the door to the related meme, […]

Did You Get the Memo?

Thursday, August 18th, 2022

Every August I remember our history.  For professional historians, history is based on documents.  Documents give us a look into real time events rather than looking backwards.  Documents help us separate reality from storytelling. On August 6, 2001 a Central Intelligence Agent handed George W. Bush a Presidential Daily Brief.  Its title could not have […]

Time to Come Home

Thursday, September 2nd, 2021

The United States Armed Forces have shown the world again that it is the best trained and equipped on the planet. In 2001, they went into Afghanistan to kill Osama Bin Laden and dismantle the 9/11 terror network. Long after their mission to kill Osama Bin Laden was successful and Al Qaeda driven from Afghanistan, […]

Let’s Imagine

Wednesday, July 20th, 2016

Let’s imagine for one moment, that President Obama served on 9/11 with Secretary Clinton at his side. Let’s imagine Obama and Clinton covered up the role Saudi Arabia played on the day. Let’s imagine President Obama and Secretary Clinton lied about the Iraqi role on that horrific day of mass murder. Would the country have […]

Fear and hate makes you stupid

Saturday, May 7th, 2016

Fear and hate makes you stupid. No really. It does. The curly-haired man laughed. He laughed because those scribbles weren’t Arabic, or some other terrorist code. They were math. Yes, math. A differential equation, to be exact. ,,,He’s Italian, not Middle Eastern, or whatever heritage usually gets ethnically profiled on flights these days. I guess “they” […]

HYW 75 on the Way to SOSU

Monday, September 12th, 2011