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9/11 victim Peter Edward Mardikian: Gone too soon (REPOSTING)

As part of DC Roe’s Project 2,996 from 2 years ago, I wrote this post in honor and tribute to murdered 9-11 victim Peter Edward Mardikian, and wanted to repost it today, the 7 year anniversary of 9-11. The links in the posts were valid, workable links the first year it was posted, and hopefully they are still good to use this year, too.  Longtime readers have already ready this post, but I hope newbies who have not seen it will take a few minutes to read the post in full in order to get to know Peter Mardikian,  because like all the victims of 9-11, he is a man worth knowing … and worth remembering......   [Read More]

The NYT on the Hamdan ruling

I’m buried under as usual today but I wanted to link up to Andy McCarthy’s slam of today’s NYT editorial, which is titled “Guilty as Ordered” (emphasis mine) in reference to the recent guilty ruling in Gitmo’s Hamdan trial.    As expected, the NYT is reflexively anti-Bush, strongly implying that he is a dicator prone to imperial rule.  Both McCarthy’s rebuttal, as well as NRO’s response, go a long way towards providing the details the NYT, of course, won’t. .....   [Read More]