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I'm sorry for the people who died on 9/11.I'm sorry we were told to shop after 9/11 and that many of us chose to consume beyond our means.I'm sorry that some of the financial firms in Manhattan chose to cheat people and to rip people off.I'm sorry we sometimes used 9/11 to scapegoat Muslims and torture people.I'm sorry we used 9/11 to start wars based on lies, kill civilians, and then treat our veterans like crap.We had choices to make about how we would honor the...

Those who have been watching have seen it in action for decades, but only recently has the real threat to America and it's way of life begun to be made clear to everyday folks who are just trying to live their lives and don't normally watch politics.  This threat has grown organically over the years, fueled by secret money from shadowy groups pumping tens of millions of dollars into a singular effort to undermine representative...

I think every American experienced some sort of joy when it was announced that Osama bin Laden was dead. For many of us, it was an overwhelming sense of relief that this particular chapter on the war on terror is over. Others got their schoddenfreud on and were rejoicing in his death itself. One radio commentator (sports) even imagined himself as Samuel L. Jackson's character in Pulp Fiction. I've always had mixed emotions about rejoicing...

From the Department of Blatant Hypocrisy, Do As I Say, Not As I Do Division:"The Obama administration is expressing alarm over reports that thousands of political separatists and captured Taliban insurgents have disappeared into the hands of Pakistan's police and security forces, and that some may have been tortured or killed.The concern is over a steady stream of accounts from human rights groups that Pakistan's security services have rounded up thousands of people over the...

Republicans in the Senate are still blocking the bill that would provide funds for the health needs of 9/11 responders.(Above--Smoke as observed from space in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack.)Republicans have said they are concerned that the bill would add to the deficit. Yet adding to the deficit did not seem to be a concern for Republicans when it came to protecting tax cuts for the most wealthy Americans.The 9/11 bill will cost $7.4...

Paging Dr. Mengele, Dr. Josef Mengele.Truthout has a report taken from Department of Defense documents showing that detainees at Guantanamo were given massive doses of an anti-malarial drug which was known to have serious psychological side effects before they had even been tested for malaria, and in spite of the non-existence of malaria in Cuba:"The Defense Department forced all "war on terror" detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison to take a high dosage of a...

The ever-encroaching police state-coming soon to a bus, subway, train, boat, federal building (and who knows where else) near you:"The next step in tightened security could be on U.S. public transportation, trains and boats. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says terrorists will continue to look for U.S. vulnerabilities, making tighter security standards necessary."[Terrorists] are going to continue to probe the system and try to find a way through," Napolitano said in an interview that aired...

You'll recall that earlier today, I reported the molestation of my 5 lb. poodle, Mimi, when she was selected by a TSA agent for an "enhanced" pat down late Saturday night as we were trying to get home for the Thanksgiving holiday.  The reason for the pat down?  She was wearing a dog sweater.  We hadn't set off the metal detector, and hadn't refused any TSA requests.  She was selected because she was wearing a...

If you are a regular reader of the Hurricane, you know that we have been covering the new enhanced (read "illegal") searching and groping now going on at our nation's airports.  Some believe, including me, that the TSA implemented the aggressive pat downs of those who refuse the full body scanners to force travelers to submit to the scanners (read "nude photography without your consent").  Their plan likely was to make the pat downs more...

We've already seen the very well documented idiocy that has now overtaken US government policy and "security" procedures at our nation's airports.  As of today, I can confidently say that the terrorists, without doing more than sending more than a few bumbling apprentices with underwear stuffed with explosives, have won.  They have virtually dragged down our transportation system to a snail's pace while letting us do their dirty work for them, denying our own legal...