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Gulf Oil Spill: Conservatives Seek Government Solutions To Problem

AP | EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulf Oil Spill, Oil Spill Conservatives, Oil Spill Government, Oil Spill Response, Kathleen Blanco, Bobby Jindal, Ben Brooks, Green News

Ben Brooks, a lawyer and Republican state senator from coastal Alabama, says he's no fan of big government but he expects an aggressive federal respon...

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Judge: Hurricane Katrina Flooding Was Caused By Army Corps Of Engineers' Negligence

AP | CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Negligence, New Orleans, Ninth Ward, Bobby Jindal, Hurricane Katrina, Kathleen Blanco, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, Levees, Nagin, Cause of Katrina, Hurricane, Katrina Flooding, Katrina Memorial, Louisiana, Ray Nagin, Army Corps of Engineers, Road Home, What Caused Hurrican Katrina Flooding, 9th Ward, Katrina Recovery, Justice, National Government, Katrina Court Case, Mr-Go, Mrgo, Home News

NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive...

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Carville and Rove Duke It Out at Radio City Music Hall

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, George Bush, Bill Clinton, Kathleen Blanco, Karl Rove, Charlie Rose, Cia, Rush Limbaugh, Colin Powell, James Carville, Iraq, Code Pink, Dick Cheney, Saddam Hussein, Guantanamo Bay, Ray Nagin, Terri Schiavo, Sonia Sotomayor, Nancy Pelosi, 1960's Civil Rights Act. Republican Party, Radio City Music Hall Speaker Series, Hurricane Katrina, Social Security Privatization, Media News
Marcia G. Yerman

Instead of getting Ali and Frazier, the crowd braced itself for a confrontation between Carville -- "The Ragin' Cajun," and Rove -- "The Boy Genius." There was drama and theatrics galore.

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Deconstructing Ray Nagin's State of the City Report

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Kathleen Blanco, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, Crime, Ray Nagin, FEMA Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Recovery, John Swenson, Bush, Nola, Lra, Politics News
Georgianne Nienaber

A dumpster load of money has either been allocated or earmarked for New Orleans, but where is the money? It sure as heck isn't in the lower ninth, which now resembles a cow pasture.

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