Friday, September 11, 2026
The Untold Pre-History of 9/11
Chris Naylor examines the pre-history of 9/11 in The National Interest. An excerpt:
"The attacks of September 11, 2001, which marked the dawn of the new millennium and appeared to many like a wholly new phenomenon, were, in fact, the culmination of decades of changing terrorist tactics, systemic aviation vulnerabilities, and institutional failure to recognize and address known threats."
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"Let's Roll"
Commentary magazine's Seth Mandel: "Schools Should Teach the 9/11 Heroism of the American People."
Thursday, September 10, 2026
"The discrimination is ongoing"
New York Post: The U.S. Justice Department goes after UC Berkeley Law School for illegal discrimination.
High time.
A revealing video in which the Dean is discussing strategies:
Well Done
My ancestor Moses Montefiore, a British magnate, knew everyone from sultans to tsars in the Victorian era. In the 1820s, he befriended Muhammad Ali, Turco-Albanian ruler of Egypt. Nowadays, I admire how Moses coped with anti-Semitism. Attending a royal dinner, a bigot denounced him: ‘I just visited Japan which I loved because Japan has no Jews and no pigs!’ ‘Then you and I should go to Japan together,’ answered Montefiore. ‘So they have one of each.’
- S. Sebag Montefiore
Opening Lines
Pete Kitchen was the connecting link between savagery and civilization in Arizona. He was a rough charcoal sketch of a civilized man. He came to Arizona in 1854, and farmed rich, broad acres on Potrero Creek near its junction with the Santa Cruz. During the bloodiest days of Indian warfare his name was a household word among the white settlers, and to the wild Apache he was "more terrible than an army with banners." His hacienda, situated on the summit of a rocky hillock overlooking the valley in every direction, was as much a fort as a ranch-house.
- From "Pete Kitchen" - a chapter in Pioneer Portraits by Frank Lockwood
Wednesday, September 09, 2026
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