More renewed interest in a return to the Moon.

Ron Kirk, Democrat candidate for Senate in Texas, continues his long, slow seppeku.

Even while the American Iliad blazes in the hills of Afghanistan and shortly on the deserts of Iraq, the American Odyssey may be coming. And if so, halleluja!

Mel Gibson's film about Christ will be entirely in aramaric and latin.

Dr. Robert Forward, scientist, science fiction writer, visionary has departed this Earth. Much of his papers can be found here.

Here's the text of President Kennedy's speach at Rice University, upon the subject of America's space effort, delivered forty years ago this month. It's amazing stuff.

The Federal Election Commission has levied record fines against various Democrat entities, including Clinton-Gore 96 and the Democratic National Committee, for various violations of election law. More would have been levied, but several perps are either on the lam or else hidden behind foreign shell companies.

In my opinion, this is a bigger scandal than Enron, et al. The clever boys at Enron were only stealing money. The Democrats were stealing democracy.

Looks like the state of California will not try to charge Buzz Aldrin with assault for decking a kook who was harassing him.

NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe states that the International Space Station will grow past its "core complete" size of three crew members.

In what ought to be a major scandal, Apollo 13: The Imax Experience is not being shown in Houston. Nor is it likely to ever be shown in Houston.

The collapse of the vaunted Canadian health care system continues apace. That must be why even Teddy Kennedy has given up trying to bring it's dubious benefits to the United States.

Ralph Peters would rather be with one, self-confident, American career woman than with the 72 virgins in the Moslem paradise.

Al Gore has already stepped into an Iraqi quaqmire, it seems, of his own making.

The Harry Potter series is deservedly one of the most beloved group of books of our generation. Unfortunately the books also top the list of books that certain people are attempting to ban from school libraries, fortunately so far without success.

Professor Reynolds gives the back of his hand to people who think that the "Wild West" model for settling space is a bad thing.

From the Done Deal site, news of the following movie being optioned:

A court jester goes on a mythical journey to return peace to his kingdom.

The title of the proposed picture: A Fool's Errand.

A site calling itself www.democrats.com has a series of hysterical posts about TransOrbital's plan to send a private mission to the Moon.

While Nation Looks the Other Way on 9/11 Anniversary, Bush Gives Moon to Private Corporation for 'Industrial Development'
Like all the other international laws, Bush is now ignoring those pertaining to space. As America is distracted by 9/11 remembrances and warnings of new threats, His Heinous has turned the moon over to a private, for-profit corporation called TransOrbital that has a far-reaching, frigthening agenda for the corporate domination of space. All TransOrbital had to do was promise not to contaminate and pollute the moon - yeah, right. That's what the oil companies say about ANWR. There was no Congressional vote - not even any consultation. Bush simply acted as if the moon were his to give away. The TransOrbital venture could be disastrous for the globe - no scientist today could predict yet how adding mass to the moon via human infrastructure or removing mass, via mining, will impact the delicate gravitational interplay between Earth and its only satellite. The moon belongs to all the people of the Earth - not to George. W. Bush or his friends at TransOrbital.

The Artemis Society is a right wing front, by the way.

TransOrbital Just Like Bush - Long on Grandiosity and Corporate Schemes, Short on Real Science
The company that Bush turned the moon over to as its personal corporate playground is a chip off the old Blockhead. Check out this home page: http://www.transorbital.net/index.html - notice the ad at the top of the page, where the company brags that it will make it possible to display commercial messages on the surface of the moon. Now check this site out for the Artemis Society - the group that is behind TransOrbital. It reminds us of those rghtwing front sites that lead to multiple front sites and nothing is what it seems. You'll notice that their web host calls itself the "Illuminati" and as based in Texas. How Bush/Rumsfeld/Cheney can you get!? Here's another one of their "subsites": Project Leto, a moon tourism outfit based in Las Vegas to attract the glitzy crowd.

Of course it is all a Bush plot to seize the Moon for evil purposes.

U.S. Military Control of Space from the Moon: The Real Plan behind TransOrbital's Permission to 'Develop' the Moon?
Everyone by now knows with painful clarity that the Bush administration does not do a single thing without having something in it for them, and usually something big and juicy. Now put two and two together: Bush gives a wacko commercial company with a scheme called the Artemis Project the green light to be the first to commandeer the moon, commercially - that means patents and legal privilege of a sweeping and unprecedent nature. Now add to that the USS Space Command's long range plan - military control of space. It doesn't take more than two neurons to figure out that once the Artemis Project gets its foot in the lunar door, the "state-sponsored" construction of a military space base will follow.

The Left has always been against government funded space exploration. Looks like they are against commercial space exploration as well. Thanks to Doug Haston on sci.space.policy for pointing this one out.

For a thorough Fisking of this, thanks to Thomas L. James.

About forty years ago, a young President spoke at Rice University about sending men to the Moon. Now the case for more lunar exploration is being made. My only arguement is that there is talk of a robotic sample return mission to the Lunar south pole "before this decade is out." Why send a robot to do a man's (or woman's) job? I want to see some geologists there, prospecting for ice and other resources, in advance to founding a lunar settlement. What a magnificent thing to do, to herald a new age of space exploration and settlement!

Ron Kirk, candidate for Senator in Texas, suggests that people who support war against Iraq (like his opponent John Cornyn) do so because many soldiers who will be going in harm's way are poor and/or black. Kirk, who is black himself, has been attempting to portray himself as a moderate, new Democrat, but this latest gaffe places him squarely alongside people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton in his willingness to play to race card.

The Democrats, it seems, are trying to wag the dog in reverse. That is to say, delay a war for purely political reasons.

Candidate for California Governor Bill Simon finally caught a break when a judge threw out the 78 million dollar civil fraud judgement against his company.

Here's a unique reason for mounting a government funded expedition to Mars. If we don't, the arguement goes, a bunch of free market entrenpeneurs will get there first and it'll be like the "lawless wild west." The person making the supposition has seen too many Clint Eastwood westerns and has read too little history, of course.

Dick Morris suggests that the Democrats have handed Election 2002 to the GOP by changing the subject from corporate scandals, the economy, perscription drugs, etc, ect, ad nauseum, to-well-Iraq.

Democrats in Florida still do not have a candidate for governor. There are threats of law suits from all sides and fingers are already pointing, though the fault appears to lay-as with last time-with Democrat local election officials.

This is so delicious.

John Keegan, the greatest living military historian, examins what lies ahead in the War on Terror.

It was a day of infamy, yet too it was a day of glory. It was a day that imprinted on the memory of those who witnessed it forever, one of those public events about which one will say, “I was in such and such place, doing such and such, when it happened.” The assassination of President Kennedy, the first Moon landing, and the night the Berlin Wall fell come to mind.

I will not mourn the dead and bereaved here. They have been more that properly mourned a thousand times in a hundred million hearts. Now I wish to celebrate heroes whose courage more than matched any who fought on our battlefields from Lexington-Concord, to Kuwait City.

A small number of men, as the towers of the World Trade Center burned, rushed to their duty. These firemen, policemen, and emergency workers saved, in all likelihood, twenty five thousand people from what was becoming a funeral pyre. The carnage at Ground Zero was horrific, but it would have been more so without the selfless sacrifice of these men. And many of them gave the last full measure of devotion, so that others may live. Remember them. Remember them always.

In an airliner, flying over Pennsylvania, another group of heroes rose to the challenge. They were unlikely heroes, businessmen for the most part who had awakened that morning blissfully unaware of what was in store for them. As the monstrous scum took control of their plane, they called their loved ones on cell phones. Soon they knew the awful truth. This was no ordinary hijacking, with hostages and demands. This episode would end in another funeral pyre.

So a group of these passengers said farewell to their loved ones, uttered a prayer, and rose up to retake the plane regardless of cost. We will not know this side of Heaven the details of that epic battle. We do know that even though all passengers and crew of Flight 93 perished, yet they gained the victory. There is no smoking crater where the White House and the Capital is today. “Let’s roll!” will be remembered as long as such heroes are possible.

What could the Enemy have been thinking? They struck at us and they hurt us, but that which does not kill us only makes us stronger. The American Iliad had begun. By the end of the first month after 9/11, our power was being felt in the homeland of the Enemy. By Thanksgiving we entered Kabul and had broken the power of one of the most vicious tyrannies that had ever afflicted the Earth. As the New Year dawned, Afghanistan was liberated, the Enemy scattered and on the run.

And that is only the beginning. When this war is through, the shape of the Middle East and of the world will be changed forever. Where there was tyranny, there will be freedom. Where there was bigotry and intolerance, there will be understanding and forbearance. Where there was war and strife, there will be peace.

And there will be a lesson taught once again, as it was taught the British Empire, the Nazis, and the Soviets. America may seem soft, decadent, and even mendacious at times. But arouse the wrath of her people, and you’ll see the Eagle’s talons and hear the Eagle’s scream. And then you will wish you had never, ever trifled with the people whose ancestors settled a continent and made a nation that is a light onto the world.

9/11 the Musical will debut tomorrow. I'm not kidding.

A conspiracy nut named Bart Sibrel is miffed at the response Buzz Aldrin gave him when he confronted the former astronaut with a demand that he swear on the Bible that he had actually been to the Moon. Buzz replied by trying to send Sibrel to the Moon with a good sock to the jaw. And it was a good thing too.

Terry Eastland suggests that if the GOP retakes the Senate, the first thing President Bush should do in renominate Priscella Owen. That would be delicious.

Here's a review of the script of a movie now in development, entitled King Conan: Crown of Iron.

Meanwhile it looks like that the Maryland Democrat Party is falling apart.

Bill Frist is now far more optimistic about the GOP retaking the Senate. Indeed, if his numbers are correct, it looks like Election 2002 may be a GOP romp. Besides the weakness of some Democrat candidates like Carnahan and Torricelli, my suspician is that Daschle strategy of obstructionism is not playing well in the country.

William Burrows makes the case for space tourism. He makes one very glaring error in his essay, however:

There is nothing about space that relates directly to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (unless the pursuers work in the aerospace industry).

Well, that's wrong. It's understandable that Burrows might think this, because it is a wide spread perception. In fact the expansion of human civilization into space is essential not only to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" but to the survival of human civilization itself.

It seems that NASA is finally getting a handle on space station costs. My guess, by the way, is that NASA will decide to expand the facility past three person core complete.

When Ameriucans march to set free Iraq, Britons will march as well, secure in the knowledge that the cause is just. Now if only Tom Daschle and the other liberal fools on the hill could figure that one out.

NASA is getting serious about using nuclear power to send people and robots out beyond low earth orbit.

Despite a series of missteps and accidents which would have cratered any other candidate, Bill Simon is still only seven points behind Gray Davis. Someone should ask Gray Davis what it is like to be hated that much by so many.

The folllowing email from NASA Deputy Administrator Fred Gregory is making the rounds:

"Seems as though, even after telling the crowd last Wednesday that it is OK to combine NEXT and Eileen's science and the medical stuff as the beginning of several road maps with milestones that acknowledge the possibility of leaving Low Earth Orbit, there are still some who are afraid to take the next step without getting further permission. Those folks will be left at the station. Research driven exploration is where I am heading. If an email of this type will help, share this one with your folks and let's get rolling. We need the convincing arguments that only your folks can help provide, to plan for follow on activities once we are cleared of our past sins and omissions. And we need those requirements right now! Fred"

Hear hear.

David Limbaugh, brother to Rush the Magnificent, points out that it is now dangerous to utter words that even sound like a racial slur, even if they are not. Personally, I think that the hapless teacher in Wilmington, North Carolina should sue everybody, starting with the stupid parent who first complained and who-on Hannity a couple of nights ago-accused her of being a racist.

Texas Supreme Court Justice Pricella Owen was rejected by Senate Liberals for federal bench for the crime of following the law.

Ted Nugent, who was never in a boy band, has offered Lance Bass a consolation prize in the event he doesn't get to fly in space.

Rand Simberg suggests that environmentalist wackos think that the Earth is the center of the universe. I would go further than that. They don't think the rest of the universe beyond Earth even exists.

One of the most disasterous US Presidents of the last century has the chutzpah to criticize the current POTUS. Jimmy should really explain how he advanced the cause of human rights in Iran, Central America, and of course Afghanistan, among other places.

President Bush often ridicules the evildoers, suggesting, "Did they think we would just file a law suit or something?" That ridicule has not stopped Americans from unleashing a weapon some find more fearsome than smart bombs or cruise missiles. First Saudi Arabia has felt the wrath of our civil liability lawyers. Now it is Iraq's turn. Embrace the horror.

Looks like the Frogs are against publishing information on Saddam's weapons programs.

"These are not issues which we can deal with publicly. This calls for serenity and seriousness, and we should therefore beware of any leaks and any saber-rattling proposals," Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin told France Info radio.

Leaks? Like maybe that Saddam really is building nukes and plague weapons? Saber-rattling proposals? Like perhaps we really have to liberate Iraq.

Of course part of the real reason that France doesn't even want to air these questions publicly is that her role in helping Saddam might be uncovered. Bad enoigh that France would be seen as an appeaser. Worse still that France would be revealed as facilitating evil for money.

Houston area home owners are being fleeced by local governments who have found an excellent way to increase taxes to confisctatory levels. The trick is to let zooming property values do the increasing for you. The fly in the ointment is that the people being fleeced may well revolt. And I say the sooner the better.

A professor at Harvard (naturally) wants to "abolish" the white race. Oddly enough this would be accomplish without gas chambers, concentration camps, or mass sterilization. No word of what's to be done with people of mixed race ancestory.

Friends of America's Past provides information on the Kennewick Man controversy and other aspects of ancient human remains in North America.

Andrew Cuomo has just found out how much value being a friend of Bill Clinton really is. At least Clinton was kind enough to visit Cuomo's withdraw speach to say what a good sport Cuomo was about being stabbed in the back.

Jerry Brown, currently Mayor of Oakland, formerly Governor of California and a past Presidential candidate, has join the crusade to keep the Third World in poverty and despair.

A private company called TransOrbital has gotten official US government permission to launch a probe to explore the Moon. The company expects to launch the probe on a Russian rocket in 9-12 months.

Now perhaps Professor Reynolds, who is an expert in space law, could explain this, since I can't. Considering that the Outer Space Treaty prohibits the exercise of national sovereignty on celestrial bodies, why does a private company need permission to send anything to the Moon? Is it possible that the United States government is trying to establish a precedence which will later be used to establish defacto control over what happens or nor on the Moon? Or am I being silly?

Update. Here's the answer, for which I'm kicking myself because I researched the Outer Space Treaty for Children of Apollo.

Article VI, Outer Space Treaty:
"States Parties to the Treaty shall bear international responsibility for national activities in outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, whether such activities are carried on by governmental agencies or by non-governmental entities, and for assuring that national activities are carried out in conformity with the provisions set forth in the present Treaty. The activities of non-governmental entities in outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, shall require authorization and continuing supervision by the appropriate State Party to the Treaty. When activities are carried on in outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, by an international organization, responsibility for compliance with this Treaty shall be borne both by the international organization and by the States Parties to the Treaty participating in such organization."

Looks like Jim Pinkerton agrees with me that greenies who want to starve Third Worlders rather than have them be defiled with genetically engineered food are-well-racists. Fortunately the Third World will have none of it, not being willing to go quietly into that good night just to satisfy First World enviironmentalist wackos..

Itar-Tass is reporting that the on again off again space adventure of N'Synch boy band singer Lance Bass is off again. Stay tuned, though.This story has had more twists and turns than the average Clinton sex scandal.

Congratulations to J. N. Stroyer for winning the 2001 Sidewise Award for best long form alternate history for The Children's War. The novel, running at 1200 pages, depicts a 21st Century in which the Nazis won the Second World War.

While sunshine soldiers and summer patriots wring their hands, at least one person with no reason to love President Bush has answered the call and supports the liberation of Iraq. Bravo Zulu, John McCain.

A federal judge has blocked the reburial of an ancient skeleton which was discovered in Oregon six years ago. The skeleton, known as Kennewick Man has been the center of controversy because of a misinterpetation of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 which was passed to protect American Indian artifacts and burial sites from looters. Kennewick Man, which was dated as being nine thousand years old, is not related to any known American Indian tribe. Indeed, the skeleton is said to have "Causcasian-like" features (a facial reconstruction expert suggested that Kennewick Man looked remarkably like Star Trek's Jean-Luc Picard). This discovery has led to speculation that early American peoples migrated to the Western Hemisphere from a variety of places, including various parts of Asia, and even Europe.

American Indian tribes attempted to have Kennewick Man reburied under the Act, an effort which was aided and abbeted by Clinton's Interior Secretary Bruce Babbit. The judge's order means that Kennewick Man will now be available for study by scientists who are eager to shed light on ancient America and its peoples, who may have been as multi racial and multi cultural as modern Americans.

Amazingly, the German government is so fanatically opposed to the death penalty that it proposes to shirk it's responsibility in the War on Terror. And we are suppose to listen to these clowns when they hand wring over invading Iraq.

President Bush seems at last to be doing something about the problem of American women being held captive under barbarous conditions in Saudi Arabia.

Sheila Jackson Lee is one of the silliest members of Congress. One of my favorite stories about her took place during the mission of Mars Pathfinder. She asked when the space probe would send back the image of the flag Neil Armstrong had left. Of course Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon, has never been to Mars nor has any other Earth human.

Now Sheila has achieved what I thought was impossible She has been attacked in the pages of the Houston Chronicle. The Chronicle rarely if ever criticizes Houston elected officials. So for it to do so is a momentous event.

George Will meditates on how the Keck and Hubble telescopes have revealed much which was hidden of the universe and finds the capacity for awe.

Has it just been five years? Well, apparently so as the media is having a collective prayer and a weep for Princess Diana. I'm not sure why this is. She didn't actually do anything of worth, except look decorous and bear two party-animal brats, the elder of which will become King of England. She died a sad, pathetic, rich Eurotrash death in a speeding sportscar driven by her addled lover. Yet the media is celebrating the anniversary of that death as if Diana's departure from this mortal coil had deprived the world (tabloid editors excepted) of something.

And don't tell me about all the "problems" she had; the cold husband, the bulimia, and so on.When I hear that, I have this image of Anne Bolyn and Catherine Howard laughing themselves sick. Now they died dignified deaths, at the block on Tower Green.

John O'Sullivan effectively nukes all of the arguements of death penalty opponents. He finds that the death penalty even deters crime. Imagine.

Gray Davis's mismanagement of California's budget-with a deficit of 28 billion and growing-is threatening government paid abortions, something that fanatical pro-lifers have not seriously managed to do.

Usually it is liberals who-falsely-accuse conservatives of wanting people to starve. But USAOD Director Natsios has neatly turned the tables by pointing out that the environmentalist wacko groups like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth are threatening millions of Africans with starvation by opposing genetically modified food. I would go further and accuse these groups of racism, since they are composed mainly of white, upper middle class elitsts and their victems are black.

Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last Shah of Iran, is prepared to lead his people to freedom.

As Bill Clinton struggles to dodge blame for his eight year party at our expense, I am reminded of the words of the Inmortal Bard, "He doth protest too much."

George W. Bush is quite right to stay away from Johannesburg, where environmentalist wacko Eurotrash gorge themselves on lobster and caviar, bad mouth America, and pass resolutions which, if put into effect, will causes untold millions in the Third World to die.

Andy Borowitz has some ideas about what The Bill Clinton Show's format should be.

Actually my idea would be a remake of The Fugitive. Bob Barr could play Lt. (Or Deputy Marshal) Girard.

Jim Oberg has written a splendid piece on the history of Russia's attempts to commercialize human space flight, leading up to and including the Lance Bass melodrama.

Gar Smith, environmentalist wacko and in my view a racist, believes that the people of the Third World would do better without electricity. The reason he is a racist is that he hasn't suggested the same view for Europe or America.

Sean O'Keefe, as part of his task of fixing NASA, wants to reform the space agency's personel system. Some members of Congress are terrified atthe prospect.

Apparently 70,000 people in Australia have declared themselves to be-well-Jedi.

As the launch of the Shenzhou 4 draws nigh, the Chinese are increasingly seeing space as an avenue for surpassing the United States in great power status. This is a development which deserves concern.

I had no idea that the fashion business could be so-well-cut throat. I suggest that the young lady immediately move to New York, Paris, or Milan where they don't actually physically attack you if they don't like your latest line of clothing.

Speaking of things literary, there's a rumor that Newt Gingrich is going to try his hand again at an alternate history novel which, instead of being a sequel to the lamentable 1945 will be about "the second most written about AH subject in the English language", presumably the American Civil War. My hope is that Newt gets a better editor this time around. There was nothing wrong about 1945 which a good editor could not have fixed, including cutting most of the last third of the book which essentially consisted of people sitting around explaing what was going to happen in the now likely never to be published sequel. Anyway, as someone who has done this sort of thing I can only wish Newt good luck.

With the names changed to protect the guilty, Christopher Buckley has written No Way to Treat a First Lady. President Ken MacMann (AKA Bill Clinton) is found murdered after a tryst with his movie star mistress. The suspect is Elizabeth MacMann (AKA Hillary Clinton). The result is a trial of the century which makes OJ seem, well, tame.

Elizabeth Weil will shortly publish They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus: An Incurable Dreamer Builds the First Civilian Spaceship, an account of rocket enntrepeneur Gary Hudson's life and career.

More proof, if such is needed, that campaign finance reform is utter folly. McCain-Feingold trashed the Constitution and will have zero effect on money in politics.

George Will finds the NEA as frightening as any foreign threat. An organization which believes that when Americans are murdered by madmen that Americans need to "manage their anger" is just that.

The Parents Television Council has announced that Buffy the Vampire Slayer is bad television for children and other living things. I wonder why that is? Is it possible that Brent Bozell believes that vampires and demons are being discriminated against?

Mcihael Knox Beran thinks that FX's film on RFK is mind numbingly bad, and not just for the questionable politics and worse history.

For your ammusement, great classics of literature if the renowed Harry Flashman had written them.

David Pryce-Jones suggests the restoration of the Hashemite monarchy in Iraq, with the uncle of the current King of Jordan as ruler.

What can I say? Long live His Majesty King Hassan of Iraq!

For the edification of children of all ages, the very first review of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

Shades of Space: 1999, someone is looking at the idea of the Moon as a nuclear waste dump.

The ethnic cleansing of Zimbabwae's farms continues. Interestingly enough, most of the farms Mugabe is stealing from their white owners are going not to poor, black farmers, but to Mugabe's cronies, relatives, and friends.

Democrats are worried that blacks-a loyal Democrat constituancy-think that Jews-another loyal Democrat constituancy-are plotting against them in the wake of the Cynthia McKinney loss. Now having fostered the politics of resentment and victemhood, Democrats would seem to have only themselves to blame.

John Moore, who directed the outstanding Behind Enemy Lines, has been tapped to helm a biop of the World War Two ace and the first man to break the sound barrier, Chuck Yeager.

Lockheed's Atlas V has launched successfully. Atlas V, along with Boeing's Delta IV, is the result of the Air Force's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program. It constitutes a small but crucial step toward the goal of cheap access to space.

Drudge is reporting that Disney is offering James Carville a job for which he is well suited. As a Toon. The problem is that I think Disney is the wrong place for him. Carville really needs to sign up with Warner Brothers to become the latest antagonist for Bugs Bunny.

The United Nations has appointed Libya's Colonel Kaddafy as the head of the Commission on Human Rights.

No doubt the UN will soon put Saddam Hussein in charge of arms control and Robert Mugabe in charge of land reform.

This piece by Rand Simberg is just too choice. Instead of the nonsense being put out by the NEA, this should be required reading by all school children everywhere.

I trust that the people now occupying the Iraqi embassy in Berlin are furiously faxing and emailing the contents of the diplomatic pouch to the nearest CIA station chief. It would be delicious to find out all sorts of embaressing stuff.

Thanks to environmentalist wackos in the Clinton administration, the wolves have returned to the Rocky Mountains. And they are devouring all of the elk.

The political corruption practiced by Enron, which included influence peddling and favors in return for campaign cash, reached right into the highest levals of the White House.

The Clinton White House.

Abu Nidal is now burning in Hell.

A private company called Highlift Systems proposes building the first space elevator.

Now the Chinese are boasting that they'll beat the barbarians (that's us) to Mars.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, let's challenge the Chinese to a space race.

The National Education Association cautions teachers against actually suggesting someone was responsible for the terrorist attacks on 9/11. One supposes, therefore, that those planes flew themselves into the World Trade Center?

Here's another account of the Millions for Reparations rally which seems to indicated how the Reparations Movement is permeated with racism and anti-semitism.

The crowd on the Mall could shop for T-shirts, hats and posters focusing on the reparations theme. A black "Kill Whitey" T-shirt went for $10 from the New Black Panther Party, which provided security for the event. Another T-shirt read: "How did we get to America? Heartless Christian Buyer, Ruthless Jewish seller."