Predictably, the national media, with George Bush in tow (or is that vice versa?) have moved back out of New Orleans, their file tape stored for another few weeks or months.
New Orleans is steadily becoming more of a 24-hour city again, and not just on the tourist streets.
Bush cited Osama bin Laden as the mastermind of an ideology as evil and threatening as Nazism and Communism before it. So, here's a bright idea.
Sure, there's plenty of 9/11 remembrance to make room for, but--just a tiny little spot in the news hole for a guy who says there was a command from the top to do no postwar planning?
When you're writing news copy, which goes through those famous layers of editors we've heard so much about, spoonerisms are like any other error: they undermine the credibility of the report.
We trust our lives to the airlines and airports. We undergo severe inconveniences for the sake, we are told, of their concern for our safety.
Maybe a country that has tolerated so much dehumanizing drivel for so long in its popular culture really has lost a sense of what an outrage upon human dignity looks like.
Small landlords--the vast majority of landlords in New Orleans--are stymied in attempting their own recovery.
A broadcast industry which programs up, which assumes its audience is as intelligent as its executives, may or may not make that audience smarter, but, at the very least, it won't make them dumber.
So there was a so-called "war of words" at the UN Tuesday, built up by the MSM as such, and all three cable news nets carried President Bush's speech live, as they should have.
Which question did Anderson Cooper tease his next segment with tonight?
Do the supporters of the Iraq war really think Iraq was a greater menace to peace and stability in 2001 than Pakistan?
I may be the only person in New Orleans for this weekend who didn't come for the Saints game. Nonetheless, there's a palpable difference in the feel of the city this time around.
So, why does the news of a report that echoes the controversial conclusions of the NIE and expands upon them stop at the water's edge?
For people who think New Orleanians bitter about the failure of the Corps of Engineers to build their levees and floodwalls properly are just isolated...
What can the political motivation be for the British leak--unless it's the increasing frustration of those in the military with the policy they're being ordered to carry out?
Now, just now, some of the $12 billion in federal funds earmarked for compensating homeowners in New Orleans for their wrecked houses-- caused by the ...
