MORNING EXAMINER: Obama votes 'present' on Syria.

A VICTORY GIRLS 9/11 COLLECTIVE: We Remember, We Are Not Afraid.

COL. ALLEN WEST: Remembering 9/11.

HEH: "The window where you were racist if you didn’t want to bomb brown people has slammed shut."

HEH: THOUSANDS OF MOTORCYCLES show up for 9/11 Rally (for which no National Park Service permit was issued); Million Muslim March (for which a permit was issued) attracts a few hundred participants.

More on the motorcycle rally here.

SEEN ON A CHURCH NEAR CALVERTON, VA: Jesus! Don't leave Earth without him.

THE NEXT SPACE SHUTTLE: Hybrid Engines Make Runway-To-Orbit Missions A Reality.

To borrow a phrase from Instapundit: faster, please.

DR. BEN CARSON: On risk and Syria.

JAPANESE HTV-4 CARGO SHIP http://www.nasa.gov/content/japanese-cargo-ship-enters-atmosphere/burns up on reentering atmosphere.

The spacecraft destruction was intentional.

OBAMACARE: Join Our Premiere Catheter Club! There's us, and then there's you little people.

DAVID IGNATIUS: The Syrian deus ex machina. You know, I'm really beginning to wonder if Vladimir Putin doesn't feel sorry for that poor dumb fu cluck we installed as President of the United States....

WASHINGTON D.C.: The 'good taste police' come to town.

NO JOKE: astronauts poorly toilet-trained.

DESPERATE MAN tries to convince the world he has the faintest idea of what he's doing.

If 'faintest idea' is the criterion, President Obama succeeded.

My thoughts on last night's speech: I, me, and my still dominate his speeches (one would think that TOTUS would delete those words before he could speak them) and one must know that any time a politician (any politician) utters the words 'for the children' it's a sign that they have no coherent argument to make.

Another random thought: the phrase 'for the children' and anyone claiming to be an an expert should be banned from television forever.

ETHANOL FUELS a crime against humanity. Yes, well, it's for Gaia's good, not humanity's.

INSTAPUNDIT on the 12th anniversary of 9/11.

DAILY CALLER editorial board endorses Anthony Weiner for NYC mayor: "Cocksure and bulging with ideas, one candidate stands erect.

He also says 'goodbye' after losing badly.

PASS GUN CONTROL, get booted out of office.

NEVER FORGET:

SEPTEMBER 11,2013: "Remembrance is worthless without resolve. Resolve is useless without action."