Overview for 9-11

Ron Paul's Bad Memory

Odd experience on CNN this morning. I was on a panel that had a chance to interview Ron Paul. I asked this question : "I attended a precinct caucus last night where the person who spoke on your behalf praised you as a strong social conservative: pro-life, anti-gay marriage. He also described …

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Written by David Frum on Wednesday January 4, 2012

No Gratitude for Disasters Prevented

In my column for CNN, I discuss heroes who have prevented disasters yet go unremembered: Imagine that some member of Congress back in the 1990s had devoted himself or herself to toughening America against terrorism. He or she had introduced legislation to require airlines to harden their …

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Written by David Frum on Monday September 12, 2011

How it Felt on 9/11

On the morning of 9/11, I was living in Washington, D.C. with my husband, David Frum, then a speechwriter for President George W. Bush. I was six months pregnant with our third child, Beatrice (now nine), and at home with my son, Nathaniel, then seven, who had feigned a stomach ache. The blog …

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Written by Danielle Crittenden on Sunday September 11, 2011

Why Bush Didn't Mention Canada After 9/11

After the horror and grief of the 9/11 attacks came a distinctively Canadian after-shock: The jolt of a seeming direct insult to Canada by the president of the United States. Nine days after the attacks, president George W. Bush addressed both houses of Congress. The president opened with …

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Written by David Frum on Saturday September 10, 2011

9/11 Plus 10: The Country We Lost

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Written by David Frum on Monday September 5, 2011

'Rescue Me' Heads Towards a Fiery End

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Written by Telly Davidson on Friday August 19, 2011

Bin Laden's Death Brings Justice For 9/11 Families

Bin Laden's death brought out a wide range of emotions in families affected on 9/11. While they felt justice had been done, they were also again reminded of their loss. On Thursday, President Obama will visit ground zero in New York City to mark Osama Bin Laden’s death and to meet with families of …

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Written by Elise Cooper on Tuesday May 3, 2011

Have We Won the War on Terror?

In 2001, we feared that radical Islam might gain money and nukes. Since then, radical Islam has been contained, marginalized, bypassed - and then shot above the eye by an American special forces team. Has the war on terror already been won? Or to put it another way: Is the killing of bin Laden …

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Written by David Frum on Tuesday May 3, 2011

Oops! HuffPo Puffs 9/11 Truther

How did writer Dan Froomkin's piece celebrating a 9/11 denialist as a lonely heroic defender of civil liberties end up on the Huffington Post's homepage? You’ll miss the Mainstream Media when they’re gone. You’ll miss professional reporting. You’ll miss editors who ask questions like, …

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Written by David Frum on Wednesday March 9, 2011

Van Jones and 9/11 Denialism

The White House is apparently excusing its green jobs adviser of signing at least one (and maybe two) statements endorsing the denialist point of view on the grounds that he did not appreciate the significance of the documents. On CNN's Situation Room last night, I was asked about the White …

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Written by David Frum on Saturday September 5, 2009

Qaddafi's Gift to Obama

My latest column in The Week tries to analyze what we know - and what we have yet to learn - about the release of the convicted Lockerbie bomber. Luckily for President Obama, nobody is asking many questions on this side of the Atlantic. Or more exactly: nobody is asking any of the questions that …

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Written by David Frum on Thursday August 27, 2009

Senator Ted Kennedy

I know exactly the hour when my opinion of Sen. Ted Kennedy permanently changed. I had remained very angry at the Massachusetts liberal for many years since his 1986 speech so unjustly vilifying the great conservative justice Robert Bork. Then came 9/11. I know exactly the hour when my opinion of …

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Written by David Frum on Wednesday August 26, 2009