{"id":3610,"date":"2019-09-11T16:12:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T16:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/09\/11\/911-eighteen-years-after\/"},"modified":"2019-09-11T16:12:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T16:12:10","slug":"911-eighteen-years-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/09\/11\/911-eighteen-years-after\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/11: Eighteen Years After"},"content":{"rendered":"

And the nation's borders are still not secure.<\/span><\/p>\n

The morning of 9\/11 was a beautiful, dry Arizona morning. Back from a hard run, I flipped on the TV while doing some cool-down exercises only to see one of the planes crash into one of the towers. I knew right away what was going on.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I said to my wife, "Well, two good things will come of this: Gary Condit will be out of the news forever, and finally something will be done about our porous southern border."<\/span><\/p>\n

I was right about the first, but not about the second.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you remember Gary Condit<\/a>, the California congressman? Succumbing as so many do to the fire down below, Condit initiated an extramarital affair with the federal intern, Chandra Levy. When Levy was found murdered, Condit's link to Levy proved his undoing. The cable shows were awash with the Condit-Levy affair that summer of 2001. 9\/11 put an end to the soap opera.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it didn't do much for the security of the southern border.<\/span><\/p>\n

We have one last chance,and its name is Donald Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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