OPINION

The 9/11 memorial has been open 16 weeks and has already has had a million visitors. The memorial opened on the 10th anniversary of the tragic destruction of the twin towers. We will never know the full extent of the health effects that day. But those who worked on the cleanup must decide Jan. 2, 2012, whether to continue with lawsuits or hope they will be covered by the Zadroga Act, which may not even cover cancer.

What people need to remember is that Maher is a comedian who is seeking publicity for his show

Cheetah died today, the Tarzan movie star and consummate clown, had long retired to Suncoast Primate Sanctuary, where he enjoyed finger-painting. He had seen a revolution in animal rights during his 80-year lifespan.

On Friday, I published an analysis article criticizing Ron Paul's suggestion that the Civil War could have been avoided through compensated emancipation. Readers made a number of points in response.

The shocking murder-suicide rampage by a Santa-suited gunman, killing six of his relatives before shooting himself in Dallas, Texas, on Christmas morning has been alleged to be an Islamic honor killing.

To reduce/eliminate climate change, the U.S. must sub nuclear power for coal at electric power generating plants, until more-advanced energy forms are available. And France is a good model to follow: it generates almost 79 percent of its electricity from nuclear technology and has successfully reprocessed nuclear fuel for decades.

Santa's high-tech sleigh developed significant problems, according to the Claus, when interviewed at the Killarney Rose, in the Wall Street area late tonight. NORAD is covering for him, pretending he's on track, while the elves frantically try to reboot the new system.

Sometimes, New York feels like its own country. Even as the rest of the U.S. struggles in the face of a down housing market, the New York of 2011 saw skyscrapers charge ever upwards, with pricing inevitably following. It is truly the global city, with developers, buyers and architects from around the world gathering to shape the future. Here are five of the biggest developments of 2011.

Ron Paul said in a 2007 interview with Meet the Press that Abraham Lincoln should have bought the South's four million slaves and freed them instead of fighting the Civil War. But this idea is based on a completely unrealistic view of history.

It often seems these days that in all walks of life, whether in politics, business, sports, arts, and, yes, journalism, character too often gives way to popularity, to fame, to money, or to power. Character is an individual thing.

Every now and then - for better or for worse - a new presidency ushers in a new American era.

A paradigm shift regarding U.S. energy policy on oil has to occur. No, it won’t occur given the current make-up of the U.S. Congress, but eventually, for energy independence reasons, a paradigm shift is mandatory.

The GOP field looks like a rogue’s gallery of losers to me.

Firefox Add-on DeSopa developer Tamer Rizk created a simple way to defeat SOPA--the Stop Online Piracy Act. Today we present an exclusive interview with him on his motivation, the troubles it may case and the ways tactics to defeat Internet Freedom will fail.

On the old TV show, The Twilight Zone, people would often wake up to find that the world had changed in some weird and inexplicable way. The holidays are kind of like that. Our music tastes, our fashion, and even our work habits, are temporarily transformed.

Instances of alleged censorship of Twitter profiles aligned with controversial topics such as Occupy Wall Street, SOPA and NDAA continue to be exposed, and leading Web experts are scrambling to debunk the claims.

Tourism is a plague that threatens to destroy culture and society.

Talk about dead on arrival, SOPA, the pathetic Stop Online Piracy Act aimed at clamping down of freedom of speech-excuse me-on copyright infringement--is already toast, thanks to an easy Firefox add-on developed by Tamar Rizk of Cambridge, Mass., company Inficron.com and launched Dec. 19.

Democratic State Sen. Carl Kruger pleaded guilty to several corruption charges on Tuesday as part of a deal with federal officials. He is accused of accepting about $1 million in bribes in order to support his extravagant lifestyle in the Mill Basin section of Brooklyn with two other men and their mother. Kruger was allegedly intimate with one of the men.

It's an age-old question: What is justice? So integral a question is it, as a foundation for human existence, influential political philosophers like Plato and John Rawls wrote philosophical works seeking the answer. And as the question of justice is fundamental to America's political divide, it deserves to be asked.

That's what Kevin Ryan, founder and CEO of Gilt Groupe, intended to do after leading DoubleClick, the online advertising platform, to a $1.1 billion sale as CEO of the company. And in the three years following that sale, from 2005-2007, he did exactly as he'd intended. But despite Ryan's previous entrepreneurial success, he never imagined that one of the five companies he'd start would change e-commerce forever. That groundbreaking company was Gilt Groupe, a members-only website orig...

Twitter is not censoring Tweets related to NDAA, SOPA, Occupy Wall Street and Anonymous, according to claims by a growing chorus of observers, and the social media giant itself. But a number of Twitter users are not convinced.

Take this day for instance. When I got up, I read that North Korea dictator Kim Jong-il had died. I wanted to make sure it was true. So I check one source, and another source. And it appeared that yes, it was true, Kim Jong-il, North Korea's tyrant, had indeed died.

Globalization has provided the United States with many benefits, but it is not without liabilities or problems.

Ron Paul is the saint of the 2012 presidential race. He is not corrupted by money, has been married to the same wife since 1957 and by all accounts raised his five children (including Rand Paul) to be upstanding citizens.

Has there ever been an American athlete who elicits such admiration and derision simultaneously?

NDAA and SOPA aren't even approved yet, but closures of the accounts of Twitter users who write on controversial topics such as Occupy Wall Street and the bills themselves seem to suggest that their effects may already be trickling down to the web.

More Americans are ending up never getting married -- in 2010, 72 percent of U.S. adults had been wed at least once, down from 85 percent in 1960.

Wow, the NYPD mobilized a massive sting operation to arrest 141 guys who were selling hot iPhones. Where are all the undercover guys pretending to be clients of high-end financial houses getting those guys on a wire and busting them?