Archive for April, 2008
40 Years Later: King’s Legacy
4 April 2008As expected, all three presidential candidates are giving speeches today commemorating the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. And rightly so. Dr. King’s struggle was a righteous struggle. By the time of King’s rise to leadership, the plight of blacks in much of America was bleak. The south in particular was [...]
UK Independent reports the Mecca orientation of the Flight 93 crescent
3 April 2008On Saturday, the conflict over Islamic symbolism in the Flight 93 memorial got its first international news coverage. One highlight is the conversation that Leonard Doyle, U.S editor of the UK Independent, had with Tom Burnett Sr.: Tom Burnett, whose son Tom Jnr died in the crash, said of the design that it is “aesthetically [...]
