ON THIS DAY – AT 8:32 A.M. ET:  We had settled into a kind of routine in commemorating the attacks of September 11, 2001.   This year it's different.

Incredibly, unbelievably, the accusing finger this year isn't pointed at Al Qaeda, or Islamists, or the teachings of radical Islam.  No, under the leadership of the president who promised to unite us, we have become more divided than ever before during the war on terror, and we, as a people, are being accused of bigotry, racism, Islamophobia, and just about every sin that the far left and its accomplices in the press can muster from their remarkably limited vocabulary.

Who would have thought, nine years ago today, that America would have a president on September 11, 2010, who didn't care much for his country, who considered himself a citizen of the world, and who would not say a word, not a word, in defense of those who ask for a little sensitivity toward the victims of the terrible day? 

We are now instructed, by TIME magazine and other self-appointed members of the ethnicity police, to reflect on ourselves.  As women wait to be stoned to death in Iran, as suicide bombers threaten civilization in Afghanistan, as Christians and Jews are still labeled as human vermin in many Muslim countries, we are informed that, in reality, it's all our fault, and that we are inherently racist.

Thus, the dream of many in power today is being fulfilled – a return to the 1960s, and that adolescent mentality that paralyzed our effort in Vietnam and brought forth Jimmah Carter not many years later.  Think about it:  If it were not for Ronald Reagan, what would have happened to our country?

So on this September 11th, let us pledge to restore our society, something that can begin through the most noble of our traditions, a free election in less than two months.  We have a clear choice, between the drift toward mediocrity and regimentation inherent in our current course, or a restoration of the nation that we fear we are losing.  It will either be morning in America again, or it will be an America that many of us will be embarrassed to leave to our children.

September 11, 2010