Month: September 2006

Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day. — Thomas Jefferson

Details are sketchy, but it appears that at least one car bomb exploded close to the US embassy in Damascus, Syria as part of a coordinated attack by several gunmen on the embassy compound: DAMASCUS, Syria (CNN) — Syrian...

photo courtesy olivia This is an Unhosted Cafe. Coffee & Tea under the window.Goodies on the platters. More lovely flowers at Olivia’s Blog Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier) May the...

[Crossposted from my Real History blog] There is so much, and also not enough yet, to say about 9/11. Here’s what I remember. I was up early that morning. Couldn’t sleep, so I turned on CNN. It was around 5:30 AM. At...

The exact numbers of those killed on 9/11 will probably never be known. The best estimation of the totals include 40 killed in the crash in Pennsylvania, 184 in Washington and 2749 (the most uncertain numbers) in New York. On...