ED MORRISSEY: Nine Years Later: The New Normal.

ON C-SPAN AT 2 PM: “Pilots and air controllers responsible for clearing U.S. airspace in the hours following the 9/11 attacks gather at the University of Texas at Dallas today to share their behind-the-scenes experiences and explain how their decisions helped to mitigate loss of life through the day’s chaos.”

BEWARE THOSE Australian police cruisers.

GERARD VAN DER LEUN: What I Saw: Notes Made on September 11, 2001 from Brooklyn Heights.

TOP TEN MOVIE GALS WITH GUNS.

IT’S THE 9TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SEPTEMBER 11TH ATTACKS. Ninth anniversaries aren’t especially special, but still. . . .

I won’t spend today giving handgun lessons to a Marine, or attending a Tea Party. I’ll just lead a normal day, and think about those who can’t, any more.

You might want to read this piece by James Lileks. And check out this from Cox & Forkum. Here’s what I wrote that morning.

REP. JOHN CONYERS’ WIFE heads off to prison.

MEGAN MCARDLE ON AUSTAN GOOLSBEE: “Every time I talk to Goolsbee, I come away with some fresh insight–usually, as he shreds some fuzzy misconception I’ve been cherishing. I’m thrilled that he’ll be CEA chair, hopefully performing the same exercise for the president. . . . Indeed, while I’m very happy that he’s to head the CEA, I confess I’m a little surprised. I had always thought of him as being too independent–and independent minded–to spend long in the administration.”

I know Goolsbee slightly, though much less well than Megan. I wish him luck in that snakepit, but . . . .

REMEMBERING the day.

AT NBC, sticking carefully to the narrative.

UH OH: Bed bug fixes not covered by insurance?

Related: Move Over, Muppets: Bedbugs Take Manhattan (D.A.’s Office). “Right now Robert Morgenthau is probably thinking to himself, ‘Thank God I left that dump for Wachtell.’ Morgenthau’s sucessor as DA, Cyrus Vance Jr., is probably scratching himself.”

MISTER, WE’VE GOT A MAN like Herbert Hoover again. “For reasons fair and unfair, Obama, who inherited a bad recession and made it worse, every day looks more like a modern-day Hoover, whining about his problems, rather than an FDR cheerily getting things done. Inadequate to the task, Obama is discrediting the statism he was elected to restore.”

“HE SAYS HE’S A WWE FAN:” Video Of A Guy Tackling A Bank Robber In A Chokehold.

HMM: Effingham deputies call feds after arresting Russians with shovel, wire cutters outside Georgia Power plant. (Via Weasel Zippers.)

BARACK OBAMA and embarrassing stereotypes.

RELATING TO THE HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE TALK: Christine Hurt: Untangling Consumption Value and Investment Value of Higher Education.

THE PICTURE IS MUCH BIGGER: Only The Actors Got Small.

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, CEOs of failing companies would get huge paychecks. And they were right!

PAUL MIRENGOFF: Why did the FBI visit Rev. Jones?

Hey, you’ll hear from the Feds if you go off-message. Not that that’s new.

SCOTT RASMUSSEN: Watch West Virginia.

DAILY CALLER: Liberals desperate to connect Tea Party with domestic terrorism. Of course they are.

SOLAR PANELS? Not on the White House! “Bill McKibben, an environmental campaigner from Vermont with a flair for showmanship, was rebuffed Friday morning in his effort to get the White House to reinstall one of the solar panels that President Jimmy Carter had placed on the White House roof. . . . The world ‘stunt’ may have come up.”

AT PATTERICO, it’s a pledge drive.

MARKDOWNS ON Toys And Games.

CNN: 2 Muslims travel 13,000 miles across America, find an embracing nation. “Ali and Tariq were embraced nearly everywhere they went, from a Confederate souvenir shop in Georgia to the streets of Las Vegas, Nevada, to the hills of North Dakota where the nation’s first mosque was built in 1929.”

UPDATE: Reader Barry Dauphin writes:

Many media outlets (the usual suspects of the TV networks and NPR) have been working overtime to craft the narrative of America rejecting Muslims, and anti-Muslim sentiment rising, etc., etc. The MSM coverage of the President’s press conference should qualify as a campaign contribution. The MSM is trying to get the Dems back into the game. The MSM is almost wholly responsible for the Gainesville minister’s Koran burning becoming any kind of story. What a puny story this should be when anti-semitic crimes are never reported. This reverend in Florida is a complete nobody. The MSM whips up the liberal pundits into a frenzy, so they can execute their highly practiced indignation of how horrible America is. How pathetic and small they have become. The Democratic powerhouse machine from 2008 has been reduced to sending more cameras to cover the whack-job reverend than that church has members. All in the service to revive a comatose presidency.

Good luck with that.