Senator Mary Landrieu thought she'd authored a law requiring the Corps of Engineers to deliver a plan for so-called Category 5 hurricane protection for New Orleans and southern Louisiana.
That somehow a hurricane that brushed by New Orleans actually succeeded in flooding 80% of it--has become the conventional un-wisdom.
For those who may have thought we had finally understood the extent of FEMA's fecklessness, today's Times-Picayune brings news of a new frontier crossed.
Anderson Cooper's interview of Faith Hill and Tim McGraw added nothing to what anyone sentient knows about the story of New Orleans and the Gulf.
No, AC, there is no "The Plan," Soviet-style, imposed from above. But what has transpired could well turn out to be the best possible outcome, under the circumstances.
Rupert Murdoch's London Sunday Times prints a long piece by a reporter who's actually spent more time in Afghanistan than, say, Geraldo.
There actually appears to be one, unlike the phoney global warming debate ginned up by--well, the ginners.
Gee, if MSNBC hadn't just cancelled their "program of record" on legal issues, The Abrams Report, this might be a newsworthy story beyond the state line.
I saw him performing a couple of years ago at a friend's first wedding anniversary party. Buttons was razor sharp, fresh, unpredictable, with the delivery of a master.
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has introduced emergency legislation to take inspection of the highway and tunnel system away from the Turnpike Authority.
You probably saw the quote right here--Brad Pitt was unprepared for the scale of devastation he saw as he toured New Orleans. Most Senators and Congr...
Somebody should ask Tony whether he's ever before noticed the President's keen sense of irony.
A warm and wonderful counterpoint to the distressing tales of FEMA's feckless response to Katrina is this report about the US Department of Agriculture's Livestock Compensation Program.
My take on George W. Bush's shitspeak to Tony Blair last week, aired on Sunday's Le Show nationwide and worldwide, is available here.
Now, as a defense against calls for an immediate cease fire, conservatives--at least the Administration variety--embrace the addressing of "root causes".
I know it's tough, with AC on the other side of the world, but New Orleans hurtles, or crawls forward toward its reunion with the MSM on August 29.
Despite the cant of those who want to see the folks down there as lazy parasites, it's clear to anyone who spends time in the city that there's a whole lot of bootstrappin' going on.
CNN viewers are still waiting for the "layered sense" of what is behind the failure of the levees and floodwalls.
