W seems content to allow New Orleans to fall into a paroxysm of violence. As a pal in Chicago had predicted, we have our own Baghdad on the Mississippi.
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Wednesday, Apr. 04, 2007
A Citizens’ Army Grows in New Orleans
By Russell McCulley/New Orleans
Stephanie Pedro, 27, is no Paul Kersey, the New York architect-turned-vigilante Charles Bronson […]
W. is no doubt working on Baghdad to show the post-surge progress through a series of Catholic grammar school filmstrips.
Google maps of New Orleans criticized by congressional subcommittee
AP
(3/31/07 - NEW ORLEANS, LA) - Google’s replacement of post-Hurricane Katrina satellite imagery on its map portal with images of the region before the storm does a […]
but the North Dakota governor has dibs on any warm, Mississippi names.
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Colorado to use inmates to fill migrant shortage
Tough laws passed last year against illegal immigration have created a need for farmworkers.
By Nicholas Riccardi
Times Staff Writer
March 1, 2007
DENVER — Ever since passing what its Legislature promoted as the nation’s toughest laws against illegal immigration last […]
Paul Begala may be right. These guys would rather climb a tree to lie than stand on the ground and tell the truth.
Bush’s levee budget upsets Vitter
He says it undermines pledge of protection
Friday, February 02, 2007
By Bill Walsh
Washington bureau
WASHINGTON — President Bush is expected to shift $1.3 billion away from raising and armoring levees, installing […]
I’m sure the Dems will love to start their reign with this mess still frozen in place. At the moment his 8-term run is not about to cut any ice with the Feds. Maybe the voters fell back on the $100,000 rule. Since his freezer allegedly held less than 100 large, he skates with them. […]
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Thursday, July 27, 2006 · Last updated 4:48 p.m. PT
Congressman, ex-FEMA chief Brown squabble
By LARA JAKES JORDAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
In this Feb. 24, 2006, file photo, some of more than 10,000 mobile homes are shown at the Hope, Ark., airport. Sen. Mark Pryor and Rep. Mike Ross, both D-Ark., said Thursday, July 27, 2006, that […]
June 20, 2006
“Crime Rising, New Orleans Asks for National Guard
By SUSAN SAULNY
NEW ORLEANS, June 19 — In a blunt admission that the city could no longer control its growing crime problem, Mayor C. Ray Nagin asked the state on Monday to send National Guard troops to help patrol the streets of New Orleans.”
Please find the […]
War Room
When the saints come marching in
Sorry, Sen. Inhofe, but the gentleman from Louisiana just passed you in the pandering lane.
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Along the way to the vote, Republican Sen. David Vitter defended the GOP’s efforts on the election-year measure by saying: “I don’t believe there’s any issue that’s more important than this one.”
Please find the entire […]
THE NATION
In the Black(water)
by JEREMY SCAHILL
[from the June 5, 2006 issue]
Tens of thousands of Hurricane Katrina victims remain without homes. The environment is devastated. People are disenfranchised. Financial resources, desperate residents are told, are scarce. But at least New Orleans has a Wal-Mart parking lot serving as a FEMA Disaster Recovery Center with perhaps the […]
A General Passivity Fell Upon the G.