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Red Bank High School football coach Tim Daniels wasn't on the sideline the last time Maryville defeated the Lions …

Whether it wins or loses tonight, Fulton High School will never have to face Catholic's Harrison Smith again …

Dwayne Hatcher spoke at civic clubs and other organizations about the Morristown area before this season began, tickling his listeners' fancies about the future of Morristown East High School football …

With college football players like Ohio State quarterback Troy Smith and Arkansas running back Darren McFadden vying for the Heisman Trophy, runner David Clabo threw his name is in the …

Class 5A Farragut (9-3) at Ooltewah (12-0): When Farragut needed a punter at the beginning of the season, it got one. When it needed big plays in games against Bearden …

Thanks to Muslims Against Sharia for putting together a short video on the re-hijacking of Flight 93:

The voice at the beginning is flight attendant CeeCee Lyles.

CeeCee's family has really struggled without her. One of the many stories that clearly illustrate how much one life matters. (Serious tear-jerker warning.)


Check out The Strata-Sphere

Last week's blogburst asked those hero bloggers who forced the redesign of the crescent memorial back in 2005 to please notice that the giant Mecca-oriented crescent is still there.

Many thanks to AJ Strata for taking another look, and writing a long post on the fundamentally unchanged memorial. It looks like he might keep after this too, since he gives the memorial another mention amidst his debunking of recent claims that Obama's birth certificate scan shows signs of Photoshopping.

If you aren't familiar with The Strata-Sphere, it is second to none as a source for terror war news and analysis.


The Pennsylvania press reports our "who broke the circle?" email campaign, and covers up the Park Service's refusal to answer

Since the memorial design is still being described as a broken circle, and since the unbroken part of the circle (the crescent) remains completely unchanged, our email campaign demanded to know "WHO is being depicted as breaking the circle?"

It can only be the terrorists. The circle is a symbol of peace, and it was the terrorists who broke the peace on 9/11. So the design shows the terrorists breaking our peaceful circle and turning it into a giant Islamic shaped crescent. A clearer depiction of al Qaeda victory is hard to imagine.

The Memorial Project and the Park Service sent evasive replies to the hundred or so emails they received, never answering the question posed, but the fact that they issued a mass response made the email campaign news. How did the Pennsylvania press cover it? With a cover up.

Reporter Kecia Bal mentions our "who broke the circle?" subject line, but never reports the substance our letter: that the circle can only have been broken by the terrorists, who then succeed in turning it into a giant (Islamic shaped) crescent.

Instead, Kecia quotes an emailer admitting that "it was a cut-and-paste kind of thing," as if they might not even have understood the content, which remains a mystery to Kecia's readers. She does not even let her readers know that the official government response failed to answer the question.

Why is the local media covering this up? Because the entire Memorial Project, including both advisory boards, was appointed by the Somerset County Board of Supervisors. As a result, it is stacked with local eminences, all of whom are by now deeply implicated in the two and a half year cover up. Kecia thinks she is doing these local eminences a favor by trying to make this story go away, but she is not.

The further that architect Paul Murdoch's terrorist memorializing plot proceeds, the bigger the scandal. All of these local folks could still be heroes by stepping up and tackling the hijacker. Continuing to block for him instead is the worst thing they can do, not just for the country, but for themselves. We are trying to haul these people out of a burning building and they are tearing their fingernails out on the doorjambs. Crazy.


The August 2nd Memorial Project meeting

If you are within weekend traveling distance, please consider joining Tom Burnett Sr. in Somerset PA on August 2nd. If you get there early enough for the Memorial Project's public meeting (10AM-1PM) you can sign up to speak. We will rally in the afternoon on Saturday, and visit the crash-site Sunday.

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Austin-East High School seniors Jenae Anderson and Bianca Blair spent years of training for what they accomplished Thursday morning …

For the first time this season, Farragut High School will play without senior quarterback Michael Lawrence …

COALFIELD - It was supposed to be a short stay for Gary Kreis …

When Alcoa High School football is the subject of conversation, the offense typically garners the lion's share of attention, and justifiably so …

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+ Mr. Lawsky testified at a hearing today of the House consumer-credit subcommittee in which members considered various ways to reduce students’ credit-card debt and misuse. Panelists, including Mr. Lawsky, sketched a scenario in which students are taken advantage of by predatory companies, who offer free gifts and withhold important information about payments and rates to students who apply for credit cards.
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Chris Vandergriff's telephone rang one night last winter, not long after he had announced his retirement as the Halls High School wrestling coach …

Sen. Barack Obama appeared with Chris Wallace yesterday on Fox News Sunday, in an interview which stopped the long running Obama Watch clock at 772 days. Reactions across the web were largely positive:

• The Los Angeles Times' Don Frederickdescribed the, "generally easygoing conversation," between the duo. "All in all, a mistake-free performance by a candidate who appeared better rested — and in a better mood — than he often has in recent weeks," Frederick wrote.

• Ryan Grim of Politico writes that, "believe it or not, it was a friendly exchange, touching on familiar themes." Grim mentioned the questions by Wallace relating to Rev. Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers, but also about how Obama will, "put into practice the bipartisanship that he preaches."

• The Chicago Tribune's Christi Parsonswrites Obama "may have been annoyed," to rehash the "hot-button questions," but he was surely expecting them. "Wallace's show goes straight into the living rooms of many of the voters Obama will have to win over if he wants to win in Indiana, and Wallace didn't ask about anything they're not thinking about," Parsons writes.

• Related: Wallace is profiled today in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. "I can't imagine being in a happier situation. The reality is, I love Fox News Channel," he says.

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