Paul Barrow points out that "the real focus" of DHS "is not on prevention but on management of disasters" which "have created immense political backlash." But the real backlash will come when we attempt to use the new software & there's noone to show us how!

In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, practically every American understood and agreed with a powerful two-word sentiment that summed up the nation's attitude during those traumatic days: "never forget." Nine years later, it's clear that great swathes of the pop …

Tuesday. Another morning in downtown Manhattan. The canyons of the financial district swell with men and women in business suits, briefcases confidently swinging, a cup of coffee or a pastry dangling from one hand. Few of them were bothering to look up at the sky.

Many of the tropes of classic anti-Semitism have been revived and given new force on the American right.

Daisy Khan is shocked. In a phone conversation with her minutes ago she said she couldn't believe that what had started out as "a community center for everyone in the neighborhood, to scale up and build up people of all religions has become so skewed.

If you've only left ten comments on Newsvine in the past few weeks, there's a strong chance that at least one of them was directly related to the Mosque being built near ground zero in New York City.

On September 11th of 2001, religious zealots attacked The United States. In those attacks, friends and acquaintances of mine were viciously murdered. It is in their memory, speaking on their behalf, that I write this article. I knew these people well.

Backers of a controversial Ground Zero mosque got a boost last night from members of a lower Manhattan community board who voted to recommend against designating the 162-year-old building now at the site a landmark.