http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ en Copyright 2008 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:45:26 -0500 It is not a tidy anniversary this year. Seven years between that awful day and this Sept. 11, the terrorist attacks linger somewhere between the immediate, a conscious part of our days, and the comfortable remove of the distant past. No longer yesterday and not yet history.What happened seven years ago colors American life today. There are the two http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/7_years_on__sept__11_is_so_far_and_yet_so_close.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/7_years_on__sept__11_is_so_far_and_yet_so_close.html Erin Mcclam The Associated Press Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:45:23 -0500 Tropical Storm Hanna accelerated toward New England on Saturday after the storm's whipping winds and rain didn't linger long enough over the Southeast to cause much more than some isolated flooding and power outages.Hanna moved quickly inland after cruising ashore overnight with winds of around 50 mph. But as the storm cleared out of the http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/hanna_dumps_rain_on_mid_atlantic__heads_north.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/hanna_dumps_rain_on_mid_atlantic__heads_north.html Whitney Woodward The Associated Press Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:45:19 -0500 Tropical Storm Hanna accelerated toward New England on Saturday after the storm's whipping winds and rain didn't linger long enough over the Southeast to cause much more than some isolated flooding and power outages.Hanna moved quickly inland after cruising ashore overnight with winds of around 50 mph. But as the storm cleared out of the http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/lots_of_rain__some_flooding_as_hanna_moves_north.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/lots_of_rain__some_flooding_as_hanna_moves_north.html Whitney Woodward The Associated Press Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:30:29 -0500 Flanked by officials from the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Robert Mueller last year announced with considerable fanfare a new partnership between his agency and civil rights organizations.The goal: To bring justice in long-ignored murders from the civil rights era.The outcome: Not one case has been prosecuted under the http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/fbi_s_civil_rights_initiative__no_trials_yet.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/fbi_s_civil_rights_initiative__no_trials_yet.html Deborah Hastings The Associated Press Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:30:25 -0500 Authorities in Pennsylvania say a fourth teenager has been charged in the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant.Schuylkill County prosecutors charged the teen in juvenile court Friday with aggravated assault, ethnic intimidation and other offenses. His name and age are not being released.Three others are charged as adults in the July attack in the http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/4th_pa__teen_charged_in_killing_of_immigrant.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/4th_pa__teen_charged_in_killing_of_immigrant.html The Associated Press Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:30:20 -0500 Tropical Storm Hanna blew hard and dumped rain in eastern North Carolina and Virginia Saturday, but caused little damage beyond isolated flooding and power outages as it quickly headed north toward New England.Hanna sailed easily over the beaches of Carolinas' coast, and emergency officials were already looking past it to powerful Hurricane Ike, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/hanna_rakes_carolinas_with_wind__rain__heads_north.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/hanna_rakes_carolinas_with_wind__rain__heads_north.html Whitney Woodward The Associated Press Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:15:27 -0500 Authorities in New Jersey say a bomb scare involving a package on a freight train appears to have been a hoax.Police in the town of North Bergen say dozens of officers searched through more than 1,000 packages taken from the freight train and finally found one package with an electronic device — but no bomb.Police Chief Bill Gavin says the http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/police__bomb_scare_on_train_in_nj_was_hoax.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/police__bomb_scare_on_train_in_nj_was_hoax.html The Associated Press Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:15:22 -0500 Authorities in Philadelphia say an allegedly drunken teen motorist has smashed into a police car during a pursuit and one of the officers has died.They say a second officer has been hospitalized in stable condition.Authorities say the officers were chasing a suspected stolen SUV late Friday when the vehicle's 16-year-old driver struck their http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/crash_with_suspect_suv_kills_phila__police_officer.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/crash_with_suspect_suv_kills_phila__police_officer.html The Associated Press Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:15:16 -0500 Tropical Storm Hanna blew hard and dumped rain in eastern North Carolina and Virginia Saturday, but caused little damage beyond isolated flooding and power outages as it quickly headed north toward New England.Hanna sailed easily over the beaches of Carolinas' coast, and emergency officials were already looking past it to powerful Hurricane Ike, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/hanna_rakes_carolinas_with_rain__wind__some_floods.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/hanna_rakes_carolinas_with_rain__wind__some_floods.html Whitney Woodward The Associated Press Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:45:34 -0500 Tropical Storm Hanna blew hard and dumped rain in eastern North Carolina and Virginia Saturday, but caused little damage beyond isolated flooding and power outages as it quickly headed north toward New England.Hanna sailed easily over the beaches of Carolinas' coast, and emergency officials were already looking past it to powerful Hurricane Ike, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/lots_of_rain__some_flooding_as_hanna_heads_inland.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/lots_of_rain__some_flooding_as_hanna_heads_inland.html Whitney Woodward The Associated Press Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:15:20 -0500 Tropical Storm Hanna sailed easily over the beaches of Carolinas' coast early Saturday, blowing hard and dumping rain but apparently causing little damage at the start of its speedy run north to New England.Emergency officials were already looking past Hanna to powerful Hurricane Ike, several hundred miles out in the Atlantic. With Category 3 http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/hanna_blows_onshore_near_north_south_carolina_line.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/hanna_blows_onshore_near_north_south_carolina_line.html Jeffrey Collins And Kevin Maurer The Associated Press Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:45:08 -0500 In the heart of the park here on a recent warm day, all 358 spaces at the Fishing Bridge Recreational Vehicle Park were jammed with RVs and camping equipment.Despite high fuel prices and a sputtering economy that have hurt RV sales and caused many people to put the brakes on vacation plans, plenty of the lumbering, gas-guzzling rigs have taken to http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/yellowstone_rv_park_full_despite_fuel_costs.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/yellowstone_rv_park_full_despite_fuel_costs.html Bob Moen The Associated Press Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:00:17 -0500 Tropical Storm Hanna was slamming into the Southeast coast Saturday morning, bringing near hurricane force winds and heavy rain to North and South Carolina. The storm was expected to cause widespread flooding and possibly generate strong tornadoes.After making landfall the storm was projected to accelerate rapidly to the Northeast, reaching New http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/the_nation_s_weather.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/the_nation_s_weather.html Weather Underground The Associated Press Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:15:09 -0500 When Darnell Hartsfield saw the inside of a Texas prison cell for the first time in 1984, it was for an aggravated robbery he committed the previous year. But prosecutors contend the Tyler man was involved in a far more heinous crime just three days before his arrest for that September 1983 robbery.Hartsfield, 47, goes on trial this week for his http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/2nd_trial_starting_for_infamous_texas_kfc_murders.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/2nd_trial_starting_for_infamous_texas_kfc_murders.html Michael Graczyk The Associated Press Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:15:42 -0500 Boeing Co. machinists walked out on strike Saturday after contract talks arbitrated by a federal mediator failed to produce an agreement.About 100 union members hoisted their strike signs at 12:01 a.m. outside the Boeing plant in this city north of Seattle, cheering and blasting air horns at passing cars, many of which honked back."It's been about http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/contract_talks_fail__machinists_strike_boeing_co_.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/contract_talks_fail__machinists_strike_boeing_co_.html Manuel Valdes The Associated Press Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:15:18 -0500 Tropical Storm Hanna sailed easily over the beaches of Carolinas' coast early Saturday, blowing hard and dumping rain but apparently causing little damage at the start of its speedy run north to New England.Emergency officials were already looking past Hanna to powerful Hurricane Ike, several hundred miles out in the Atlantic. With Category 3 http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/hanna_roars_ashore_near_north_south_carolina_line.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/hanna_roars_ashore_near_north_south_carolina_line.html The Associated Press Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:45:30 -0500 Tropical Storm Hanna rattled the tourist beaches of the Carolinas as its center edged closer to shore early Saturday for the start of a projected dash up the Eastern Seaboard that could wash out the weekend for millions of people.Not far behind was a much bigger worry: a ferocious-looking Hurricane Ike, on a path similar to the one taken by http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/speedy_tropical_storm_hanna_nears_the_carolinas.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/speedy_tropical_storm_hanna_nears_the_carolinas.html Jeffrey Collins The Associated Press Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:45:10 -0500 "I kill for God. I listen to God," a man accused of a northwest Washington shooting rampage said Friday at a hearing where six charges of first-degree murder and four of first-degree assault were filed against him.Isaac Zamora made the chilling comment twice at the brief hearing in Skagit County District Court while investigators wrapped up their http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/wash__rampage_suspect_in_court___i_kill_for_god_.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/wash__rampage_suspect_in_court___i_kill_for_god_.html The Associated Press Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:15:41 -0500 Despite a 48-hour contract extension, negotiations between Boeing Co. and Machinists union officials have failed and the union declared: "The strike is on!"The Machinists bargain for about 25,000 aircraft assembly workers in the Puget Sound area, 1,500 in the Portland, Ore. area and about 750 in Wichita, Kan.Picket lines went up in Wichita early http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/boeing__machinists_negotiations_fail__strike_is_on.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/boeing__machinists_negotiations_fail__strike_is_on.html Manuel Valdes The Associated Press Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:15:36 -0500 Tropical Storm Hanna rattled the tourist beaches of the Carolinas as its center edged closer to shore early Saturday for the start of a projected dash up the Eastern Seaboard that could wash out the weekend for millions of people.Not far behind was a much bigger worry: a ferocious-looking Hurricane Ike, on a path similar to the one taken by http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/speedy_tropical_storm_hanna_charges_for_carolinas.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2008/Sep/06/speedy_tropical_storm_hanna_charges_for_carolinas.html Jeffrey Collins And Mike Baker The Associated Press Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:00:12 -0500