Tag: 9/11

  • Fun, Power and Bullshit

    Each word specifically refering to three articles by one Walter Kirn, a novelist who also happens to write on Substack and other places like Common Sense, whose editors say: No writer stokes more consistent envy among Common Sense editors than Walter Kirn. Two of his essays from last year—The Bullshit and The Power and the Silence—got our…

  • Kudos to New York City

    Almost every large city in the USA that is controlled by the Democrat party is a disaster area in terms of economics, crime and just about every other factor you can think of. So it’s nice to see one part of one of these cities that actually works. The NYPD’s Counter Terrorism Unit. It may…

  • The Falling Man

    I guess many of us have been wondering what the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks would be like? How it would be remembered? What feelings might exist? Also the thought of looking back and comparing what the future looked like from that point forward to what has actually transpired, as well as looking forward…

  • 9/11 and our conspiracy theory culture

    As the hours tick down to the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks – which for NZ occurred in the early hours of September 12, 2001 – there is a lot of interesting commentary about the subject. An unusual one was recently published in the City Journal magazine, Conspiracies All the Way Down. It’s quite…

  • Values, Belief and Commitment

    Taken from Kiwiblog and well worth repeating. On 9/11 Heather Penney was 26 years old. She was a pilot with the 121st Fighter Squadron in Washington DC. She was ordered to intercept and down United Flight 93 before it could reach DC and crash into a target. Due to the urgency of the mission, there…

  • Out of a Clear Blue Sky

    The sky today is blue and cloudless here in this part of New Zealand, which seems entirely appropriate for this memory. Like billions of others I did not experience the attacks of 9/11, first-hand, but only via radio, TV and the Web. And like almost everyone else I could not believe what I was seeing…