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Eight years after the horror of seeing thousands of people die, towering buildings crash to the ground and a war declared on terrorism, we must not let our proclivity to move on eclipse our need to remember the victims, the heroes and the enemies of our way of life.
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9/10/09
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Millions of iPhones and BlackBerrys are being used every second, and few adults in Nassau County are without a cell phone of some kind. These devices enable more than phone calls. We can type text messages, read e-mails, connect to the Internet and type Twitter messages and Facebook updates. We can find out where the nearest pizzeria, gas station or hospital is. We can check the weather. We can get a movie review, find the closest theater where that movie is playing and when the next show starts, and then get directions to the theater. All on the phone.
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9/10/09
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Following two of the most deadly months of the eight-year war in Afghanistan, on Aug. 20 the country held its second presidential election. It would have been historic if it weren’t such a sham.
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Alfonse D'Amato
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9/10/09
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They don’t make ’em like they used to — not now nor back then. I’m talking about bars with live bands, and none on the South Shore was better than Carol’s Place in Island Park during the 1980s and ’90s.
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Joseph Kellard
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9/4/09
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A former Australian Vogue cover girl, Liskula Cohen, recently sued Google, calling on the Internet search engine giant to reveal the identity of a blogger who had been anonymously badmouthing her on her blog site, “Skanks in NYC.” Cohen won.
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9/3/09
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These days, there is a decidedly anti-alcohol message streaming through mainstream music, fueled by a cadre of young, talented — if not confused, even dysfunctional at times — female songsters.
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Scott Brinton
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9/3/09
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Ted Kennedy, who died last week, was a 77-year-old grandfather, father, uncle, husband, brother, longtime senator and friend to many. His life reads like a paperback melodrama.
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Randi Kreiss
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9/3/09
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I was glad to see that many fellow Long Islanders were as outraged as I was over the decision by the Scottish government to give Pan Am Flight 103 bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi a “compassionate release” from jail.
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Al D'Amato
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9/3/09
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Four hundred years ago, the Catholic Church — then the arbiter of what ideas could be expressed and promulgated — banned books by scientists who claimed the Earth revolved around the sun . . .
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By John O'Connell
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2/4/02
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