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Built into the internet giant Google's marketing identity is the quirky, distinctive way in which it incorporates little symbolic ‘doodles' into its logo on those days it deems socially significant....So what touching, compassionate memorial have these creative denizens produced in tribute to this century's most devastating and deeply felt American anniversary? Nothing. You read that right. Google have apparently concluded that 9-11 is not a date of sufficient significance to warrant a gesture. Michael Jackson's birthday, yes. First hot air balloon flight? They had it covered. But the fatal flight of those four airliners does not warrant so much as...

Please!....Obama!...your twisted logic is an insult!

Before he abruptly exited the White House last weekend, former green jobs czar Van Jones used his government position to help Obama's administration cynically green-wash the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Specifically, Mr. Jones helped lead an Obama-approved effort to reshape America's collective memory of the Sept. 11 atrocities. Eager to keep Mr. Jones in the vanguard of radical change, John Podesta's Center for American Progress reportedly offered Mr. Jones office space earlier this weekto help him get back on his feet. This attempt to re-brand the horrors of Sept. 11 is part of the effort to...

Remembering is sacred. Yet Congress has created a National Day of Service and Remembrance to remember 9/11, an act that has shifted the emphasis from memory to activism. Painting park benches or tutoring in schools is not a worthwhile tribute to those lost on 9/11.

At 8:46 this morning (9/11/09), Anne and I lowered our flags (US and Canadian) to half-mast. After a tear-filled moment of silence, we came into our home and lit a 24-hour candle that will burn in memory of those who died, those who were injured, those who lost loved ones and friends, and those like Anne and myself who will be forever scarred by this vicious attack on FREEDOM. As Canadians, we witnessed our best friend being brutally beaten-up for no other reason than being America. We watched the horrors inflicted on the American people by savages who would make...

WASHINGTON (AP) - On his first 9/11 anniversary as president, Barack Obama urged Americans to come together in service just as they united after the terrorist attacks eight years ago. "We can summon once more that ordinary goodness of America, to serve our communities, to strengthen our country and to better our world," Obama said at a memorial at the Pentagon. Obama on Thursday declared the anniversary of the attacks a national day of remembrance and service. And he and first lady Michelle Obama led the way Friday, visiting a Habitat for Humanity construction site in Washington, where they pitched...

JINSA Reports JINSA Report # 922 Serve.gov, the official U.S. Government website, proudly proclaims, "Projects in All 50 States Mark First Time 9/11 Will Be Officially Recognized as a National Day of Service and Remembrance." The official language is really quite lovely: Our mission is to honor the victims of 9/11 and those who rose to service in response to the attacks by encouraging all Americans and others throughout the world to pledge to perform at least one good deed or other service activity on 9/11 each year. In this way we hope to create a lasting and forward-looking legacy...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) -- The White House on Thursday released the following proclamation from President Obama regarding Pariot Day and National Day of Remembrance and Service. "Through the twisted steel of the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the scarred walls of the Pentagon, and the smoky wreckage in a field in southwest Pennsylvania, the patriotism and resiliency of the American people shone brightly on September 11, 2001. We stood as one people, united in our common humanity and shared sorrow. We grieved for those who perished and remembered what brought us together as Americans. Today, we honor...

Did the ummah (the worldwide Muslim community) ever apologize for 911? Did the ummah apologize for Madrid train bombings, London bombings, Mumbai bombings, Bali bombings, homicide bombings in Israel, jihad in Thailand, Lebanon rout, Darfur genocide, Beslan, etc.? State department personnel are supposed to pray with Muslims on the newly declared "interfaith day of service," whatever that means on 911. Not only more Muslim outreach garbage but also more diffusion of religion (Islam) and State/state. We don't stop bending over backward to an ideology intent upon destroying us. It's insanity. Add another Obama insult to injury on 911, the national...

Did the ummah (the worldwide Muslim community) ever apologize for 911? Did the ummah apologize for Madrid train bombings, London bombings, Mumbai bombings, Bali bombings, homicide bombings in Israel, jihad in Thailand, Lebanon rout, Darfur genocide, Beslan, etc? State department personnel are supposed to pray with Muslims on the newly declared "interfaith day of service" whatever that means on 911. Not only more Muslim outreach garbage but also more diffusion of religion (Islam) and State/state. We don't stop bending over backward to an ideology intent upon destroying us. It's insanity. Add another Obama isult to injury on 911, the national...

September 11, 2001 was a defining moment for me and everyone in my generation. We were young and watched something we could have never imagined. It will imprint us and our politics for the rest of our lives, which is what the Democrats are afraid of. Yes, I will remember it: as a day when Islamic terrorists attacked American soil; a day of patriotism; a day to honor the fallen; a day to thank a soldier; a day to be thankful for my family; and a day to work and to live … not as a day to turn it...

From inside the Obama White House, green jobs czar Van Jones has been orchestrating a campaign to greenwash the meaning of 9/11 using federal resources and a political front group he founded, new research suggests. It is unclear if this is illegal but at a minimum it raises questions about ethics, self-dealing, and the proper use of U.S. government resources. *snip* As I wrote last week, about 60 groups including ACORN, Apollo Alliance, Color of Change, and Rainbow PUSH Coalition are trying to help the Obama administration modify the meaning of 9/11. They want to turn each Sept. 11 into...

Was this what family members at MyGoodDeed.org envisioned for a 9/11 Day of Service? Did they hope President Barack Obama’s classless energy czar, a self-describe “communist” named Van Jones, would co-opt their efforts after his group held an anti-America “vigil” on September 12, 2001 and summarized their event this way? “That night, STORM and the other movement leaders expressed sadness and anger at the deaths of innocent working class people. We were angry, first and foremost, with the U.S. government, whose worldwide aggression had engendered such hate across the globe that working class people were not safe at home. We...

By act of Congress and the signature of President Obama, the eighth anniversary of 9/11 will be America's first officially designated National Day of Service and Remembrance. How must this day unfold? With reverence unsullied by politics or commerce. With memory focused on the barbarity visited upon the United States. With determination redoubled to protect the shores and defeat those who would murder again. The concept of making service a hallmark of 9/11 anniversaries was championed by MyGoodDeed, an organization founded by family and friends of people killed in the attacks. The group's mission statement calls for honoring "the victims...

Three weeks from now will be the eighth anniversary of that horrible day that the world changed; September 11, 2001. And it it clear by the actions of our government that they want the citizens of the US to forget what happened in NY and Pennsylvania and the Pentagon that day. President Barack Obama is asking Americans to volunteer on Sept. 11, making this year's anniversary of the terror attacks the first National Day of Service and Remembrance, organizers announced Thursday. "Our ultimate goal is to leave a positive legacy that honors the victims and those who rose in service,"...

My article "Obama's Plan to Desecrate 9/11" that ran in the Monday edition of American Spectator, was discussed on "The O'Reilly Factor" Thursday night. Here is the video: On his radio show Wednesday, Glenn Beck also discussed the article: [SORRY -- embeds don't work!]

Barack Obama has a sick surprise for America on September 11 this year. This unpatriotic Marxist hack slipped through a bill that turns the nation’s solemn day of remembrance into a perverse celebration of socialism. This is a gross insult to our American heroes who lost their lives on that terrible day. They deserve our sincere remembrance, not socialist bilge from the very type of people whose policies invited the attacks to begin with. Instead of coming together in a national resolve to never again drop our guard Obama’s Marxist Democrats have slapped us in the face. These Comrades have...

The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from the American psyche and convert Sept. 11 into a day of leftist celebration and statist idolatry. This effort to reshape the American psyche has nothing to do with healing the nation and everything to do with easing the nation along in the ongoing radical transformation of America that President Obama promised during last year's election campaign. The president signed into law a measure in April that designated Sept. 11 as a National Day of Service, but...

Here is audio of Glenn Beck on the radio today saying President Obama's plan to turn September 11 into a "National Day of Service" is the "rape of a sacred memory." Beck was talking about Obama's plan which is detailed in an American Spectator article which says Democrats hate 9/11 patriotic observances because they believe it favors the Republican Party. Therefore, an attempt is underway to shift the emphasis of September 11 away from patriotic fervor and replace it with a "National Day of Service." . . . (Listen to Audio)

Some might find the following a benignly public-spirited initiative. In April, the White House signed legislation that established September 11 as an “annually recognized National Day of Service and Remembrance.” A regretfully bipartisan bill, the measure was passed as part of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, and was promoted as a means to “encourage and facilitate community service across the country.” Yet the reality behind this legislation is quite different. As Matthew Vadum reported at the American Spectator on Monday: "The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the...