9/11

A report by Politico on Monday examined the Republican party’s problem with “birthers,” people who don’t think President Obama is a United States citizen. For balance, Politico asked Rep. Collin Peterson about left-leaning 9/11 conspiracies. Peterson says conspiracy theorists keep him from holding town meetings.
“Twenty-five percent of my people believe the Pentagon and Rumsfeld were [...]

“You’re going to wake up some morning and find out that 65 percent of what you make goes to the federal government,” warns U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann in a decidedly odd video from this month’s Minnesota GOP Central committee meeting. The clip also features Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former Sen. Norm Coleman, who accepts a copy [...]

While former Gov. Jesse Ventura’s appearance on “Larry King Live” this week (and his comments about toying with a run for president or Senate) is getting a lot of attention, his comments on “The Alex Jones Show” yesterday might have more potential to “shock the world”: he said that, based on viewing footage, visiting Ground [...]

The controversy about ABC’s semi-fictionalized account of the 9/11 attacks, the two-part docudrama The Path to 9/11 (airing Sunday and Monday nights on KSTP Channel 5), hasn’t gotten much coverage locally. The lone locally written piece in the Star Tribune was a Neal Justin-penned blurb that says the movie “does a credible job of  humanizing [...]

I’m not one for conspiracy theories.  I don’t think that there was a cover-up at Roswell; I believe that the Warren report generally tells the truth; I don’t think that 9/11 was the joint product of the US government and terrorists working side-by-side; I’m pretty sure that President Bush doesn’t have Osama Bin Laden in [...]

A new Zogby telephone poll focusing on national security issues was done over the weekend was done and I was startled by this result: