WE MUST NEVER FORGET – I would be remiss if I didn’t make note of the anniversary of the dastardly Islamic terrorist planned attack on New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the nation’s Capitol building in Washington DC on September 11, 2001.

The last target, the U.S. Capitol building, was foiled by 40 brave souls aboard United Airlines Flight 93, who caused hijackers to crash the plane in Pennsylvania.

The attack claimed the lives of 2,606 in the World Trade Center and nearby surrounding buildings, 125 in the Pentagon and 265 aboard the four aircraft flown by terrorists.  In addition, thousands were injured at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

We must never forget.

OUT OF CURIOUSITY, I consulted the high school history book, I recently purchased, to see how September 11 was portrayed to students, who were not yet born when the terrorists attacked us.

On the supposition that the Islamic militant Osama bin Laden was responsible for the attacks, and he was somewhere in Afghanistan, President Bush ordered the bombing of Afghanistan.  “We shall make no distinction between terrorists and countries that harbor terrorists,” he declared.

Bush was supported by Democrats and Republicans alike.  The media, as strange as it sounds today, was also in support of the president.  With the collateral civilian damage that followed, CNN’s reporters were told to include the explanation that it was retaliation for the harboring of terrorists.  Even anchorman Dan Rather supported the Bush strategy.

It was obvious that didn’t sit well with the book’s author.  “The full extent of the human catastrophe caused by bombing Afghanistan was not being conveyed to Americans by the mainstream press, which seemed determined to show their ‘patriotism,’” he wrote.

He dug up stories of Americans, even the wife of an Army man killed in the Pentagon attack, who claimed they didn’t want the U.S. to match violence with violence.

Rather than spend billions on our military, the author said the funds should be used to “improve living conditions of Americans and people in other parts of the world,” suggesting that while we would no longer be military superpower, it would be a humanitarian superpower.

The author, a partisan bleeding-heart liberal, notes in the book that he strived to fashion a new kind of history, different from what he learned in college and graduate school, and what I learned in those history texts given to students.

Sound familiar as we are now experiencing revisionist history?

I CONTINUE TO HAVE DOUBT in the polls showing Joe Biden in the lead in battleground states; mainly because I simply don’t believe informed voters want a placeholder as president and a radical vice president in Kamala Harris, providing advice. 

During a lackluster appearance in Warren, Michigan, with a handful of union members, his speech was a mixture of anti-Trump rhetoric and political clichés, he seemed to reluctantly agree that the Trump administration’s negotiation of the USMCA is an improvement over NAFTA.

 And, in a move you might expect from a plagiarist, Biden also signed-on to Trump’s America First policy, calling for buying and building in America with American workers.  He even had a “Buy American” sign on his lectern.

Trump’s visit to Freeland, Michigan Thursday was an outdoor rally that drew thousands to an open hangar.  Outside, hundreds more viewed the president on a huge screen. In addition to the chants of “four more years,” and “U-S-A” there was a chant “we love you.”

In addition, the Michigan Police Officer’s Association endorsed Trump’s reelection.

THE TELEPROMPTER INCIDENT – While taking questions from the media – a rare thing for Biden – he needed a teleprompter to respond.  In Harrisburg, looking a bit confused, he motioned to someone off-camera and clearly said, “raise it up,” indicating that the questions were given to the campaign prior to the conference, and his answer was on the teleprompter.

FLORIDA IS LOOKING UP FOR TRUMP, especially with Latino voters.  It is reported that if Biden loses Florida, his chances of winning the presidency dip below 50 percent.

TRUMP CONTINUES TO TALK about safe neighborhoods and law and order, religious freedom, protecting the unborn, preserving the Second Amendment, tax cuts, and bringing back our economy to numbers greater than those achieved pre-pandemic.

THE UNAMERICAN SHAME PATROL – That should be the name of Washington DC mayor Muriel Bowser’s working group formed to report on the removal of statues and renaming of public spaces that don’t conform to DC values.  Instead, it has been titled the, “Commemorative Expressions Working Group.”

The group will review some 150 public spaces – schools, parks, bridges and streets – to determine whether the featured individual’s legacy conforms to the enigmatic values of identity politics such as diversity and inclusion, according to Krystina Skirk in The Federalist.

At the same time, in distinct contrast, Hillsdale College in Michigan boasts an array of statues along its Liberty Walk, including Americans George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and Ronald Reagan. Two other distinguished leaders, Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher.

INCIDENTALLY, if you aren’t already a reader of Imprimis, the publication of Hillsdale, you should be among the more than five million readers who enjoy it every month. 

Jason Whitlock, the sports columnist I quoted heavily in my August 30, 2020 blog, in my anti-Black Lives Matter piece, has authored an excellent feature, “American Sports Are Letting Down America, in the July/August edition of Imprimis.

PONDER THIS – President Trump, who we are told dislikes and disgraces the military, presented the Congressional Medal of Honor to U.S. Army Sergeant Major Thomas Payne in a White House ceremony Friday.

AS EXPECTED, the story of President Trump’s nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize was relegated to one-paragraph at the bottom of page 6A of the leftist Arizona Republic.

May God continue to bless the United States of America.