Hurricane Katrina

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Still Counting Katrina's Dead

Stacy Parker Aab | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hurricane Katrina Deceased Victims List, Katrina Dead, Louisiana, Katrina Diaspora, John Mutter, Katrina, Katrina Victims, Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi, Politics News

While the "full impact" of Katrina is not quantifiable, the more we know about the circumstances of individual deaths, the better prepared we will be to prevent similar disasters in the future.

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The Libertarian Disaster Recovery Fallacy

John McQuaid | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Fema, Hurricane Katrina, Midwest Flooding, Iowa Flooding, Disaster Recovery, Politics News

As disasters get bigger and more complicated, the role of government in disaster recovery and urban planning will have to grow.

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The Floods: New Orleans, God, and Nature Can No Longer be Blamed

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Floods, Iowa Flooding, Midwest Floods, FEMA Hurricane Katrina, Katrina, Midwest Flood Damage, Hurricane Katrina, Midwest Flooding, Politics News

What happened in New Orleans, and what is happening today in the heartland, is the result of a massive infrastructure failure and the siphoning of tax resources into the war economy.

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Spike Lee To Revist Hurricane Katrina

Reuters | Posted 06.20.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Hurricane Katrina, Spike Lee, When the Levees Broke, Entertainment News

Spike Lee may not be done with Hurricane Katrina yet. The director of the HBO miniseries "When the Levees Broke" said Thursday he's considering visit...

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McCain: Lock-Step and (Oil) Barrel

Janet Ritz | Posted 06.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Floods, Bush Oil, Congress, Nasa, Right Wing Media, Phil Gramm, Lobbyists, George W. Bush, Iraq, Iraq Oil, Smears, Republican Hypocrisy, Stagflation, Political Corruption, Hurricane Katrina, Jim Wilkinson, Jeffrey Skilling, Texas Oil, John McCain, Michelle Obama, John McCain Hypocrisy, World Hunger, Enron, Climate Satellites, John McCain Lobbyist, Midwest Flooding, Barack Obama, Barack Obama 2008, Farm Bill, Enron Loophole, Enron Scam, John McCain 2008, Inflation, Hypocrisy, Refugees, Republicans, Green, Green News

While Obama was in Illinois shoveling sand in bags to hold back the Bush-neglected infrastructure that was crumbling around him McCain was on his way to accept whoops and cheers from oil industry insiders.

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Investigate the Levees

John McQuaid | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, John Barry, Hurricane Katrina, Levees, Midwest Flooding, Politics News

At issue is not merely how some bad designs crept into floodwalls, but why the whole system failed, and what we can learn to prevent it from happening again -- in New Orleans and elsewhere.

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New Orleans: The Corps Gets It Wrong Again, and Charting the Bumps in the Road Home

Harry Shearer | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Road Home, Army Corps of Engineers, Hurricane Katrina, Politics News

Two new reports, two more confirmations that New Orleanians are not yet out of the federal woods.

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What Happened to McCain the Reformer?

John McQuaid | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Social Security, Hurricane Katrina, John McCain, Campaign Finance Reform, 2008 Presidential Race, Politics News

If you're John McCain it shouldn't be hard to come up with a simple, compelling message that is a credible alternative to Obama's. Yet it's not happening.

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McCain's Veepstakes Dilemma

Christopher Ingram | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Abortion, Republican National Committee, Al Gore, Gop, Florida, John McCain, Campaigns, Haley Barbour, George W. Bush, Immigration, Conservative, Race, Washington Establishment, Barack Obama, Lobbyist, Dick Cheney, Charlie Crist, Dan Quayle, George H.W. Bush, American Conservative Union, Wedge Issues, Hurricane Katrina, Hillary Clinton, Veepstakes, Missippi, Christopher Ingram, Politics News

The question in deciding whom to pick for your VP running mate basically boils down to two things: geographic benefit and filling a void. McCain's weakness is his lack of support from conservatives.

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Karl Rove and Katrina

John McQuaid | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Kathleen Blanco, Hurricane Katrina, Karl Rove, Mary Landrieu, George W. Bush, Politics News

How did a political consultant whose principal skill was tactical come to control the levers of government, something which he clearly neither understood nor cared much about?

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The Shameful Irony of McCain's New Orleans Speech

Greg Saunders | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, John McCain, Politics News

McCain is in the midst of trying to give voters the impression that he is an agent of change, but when the American people needed him to show some leadership, he failed.

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Scott McClellan's Rollercoaster Ride through Primetime

Rachel Haimowitz | Posted 05.31.2008 | Media

Read More: Bush Administration, Video, Scott Mcclellan, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, What Happened, White House Press Secretary, Anderson Cooper, Hurricane Katrina, Anderson Cooper 360, Keith Olbermann, The Daily Show, Media News

Almost as interesting to me as McClellan's book is the way in which the anchors have handled their interviews. In this regard, Olbermann and Cooper represented the two distant ends of the spectrum.

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Immigration Law Throws Humanitarian Concerns to the (Hurricane-force) Wind

Rachel Haimowitz | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hurricanes, Cronyism, Illegal Immigration, Disaster Preparedness, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Evacuation, Racial Profiling, Rio Grande Valley, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Politics News

The government's idea to check proof of citizenship during hurricane evacuations in the Rio Grande Valley is terrifyingly irresponsible. Why is nobody expressing their outrage over yet another federal-response nightmare-in-waiting?

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The New Orleans Recovery Continues, Feds Welcome to Jump Aboard

Harry Shearer | Posted 05.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans Recovery, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Katrina Recovery, Politics News

I've realized just how false the national media's depiction of the Lower 9th ward is as dead, derelict and devastated. The recovery by homeowners continues despite the lack of leadership.

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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Supreme Court, Corporate Espionage, Doug Goodyear DCI Group, John McCain, Karl Rove, Undocumented Immigrants, Social Security, Federal Deficit, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Epa, Burger King, Fbi, Yum Brands, Pollution, Coal, Wal-Mart, Bush 2009 Budget, McCain Lobbyists, Plastic, Endangered Species, Hurricane Katrina, Medicare, National Parks, Wildlife, Media News

Karl Rove faces possible arrest; sea of plastic threatens aquatic life; corporate espionage continues; deficit off by trillions, and more...

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New Orleans Is Not a Libertarian Experiment

John McQuaid | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, Global Warming, City Journal, Manhattan Institute, Politics News

New Orleans must be seen as a whole, part of a larger environment. If that's going to happen, it desperately needs more competent government and better urban planning -- not less.

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Superdelegates, Obama, Robber Drag Queens, New Orleans and the "Old White Guy," John McCain

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, George Bush, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Barack Obama, Nola, Gambit Music Awards, Hurricane, Michelle Obama, Black Voters, Barack Obama Superdelegates, Trilateral Commission, Hurricane Katrina, Monument to Stupidity, Politics News

You would think that all of Bush's follies in New Orleans would guarantee that the Crescent City would vote Democratic this November. Don't be too sure.

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Serving the People vs. Clinging to Power

Philip Slater | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Republican Administration, Disaster Relief, China, Burma, Sichuan Quake, Myanmar Junta, Hurricane Katrina, Katrina, China Earthquake, Katrina Relief, Bush Katrina, Politics News

It's useful to compare the way China handled its national disaster with the way the Burmese handled the cyclone, and the way our Republican administration handled Katrina.

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McCain's Reverend Problem: Swamped Mississippians Hand Republicans A Loss

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 05.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Southern Decadence, John McCain, China Earthquake, West Virginia, Myanmar Cyclone, Hurricane Katrina, Hillary Clinton, Larry Craig, Barack Obama, Home News

Problem Reverend issues rippled across political contests last night. West Virginia voters held Rev Wright against Obama, and Mississippi voters held Rev Hagee against the Republican party.

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Burma's Cyclone, China's Earthquake, America's Katrina

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 05.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Foreign Aid, Burma, Cyclone, Earthquake, Hurricane Katrina, Cuba, Aid Shipments, China, Myanmar, Chinese Earthquake, Home News

The Bush Administration should go after the Myanmar junta for not letting well-meaning foreign governments deliver relief-- except that the Bush Administration did the same thing when we needed relief.

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Obama & McCain: Delusional Spiritual Ally Test

Chris McGowan | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Religious Delusion, HIV Conspiracy Theories, John Hagee, Jerry Falwell, Barack Obama Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, Hurricane Katrina, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, James Dobson, McCain John Hagee, Liberty College, Tim LaHaye, Pat Robertson, John McCain, McCain Hagee, John McCain Hagee, Religious Right, Hagee Endorsement, Politics News

What if we were to disqualify all candidates with ties to delusional religious folks? A politician should not be held accountable for the views of every author he has read or every preacher he has heard.

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The Perfect Storm? Obama, McCain, the Media and God

Linda Hansen | Posted 04.25.2008 | Home

Read More: New Orleans, John McCain, John Hagee, Media Bias, Divine Retribution, Religious Rhetoric, Hurricane Katrina, God, Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, Home News

McCain admits he wooed firebrand Texas Pastor John Hagee. Yet it's Obama who's weathering the religious-rhetoric storm. Maybe that's because Republicans are expected to dabble in God-fearing hate.

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Can John McCain Save New Orleans?

John McQuaid | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, John McCain, John McCain New Orleans, McCain New Orleans, Politics News

Does McCain really understand the city's predicament? That is, if he's elected will we get more than just some good rhetoric? Words can't hold back the sea.

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The Leak: John McCain's Stopover In New Orleans

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 04.19.2008 | Home

Read More: New Orleans, USA Today, John Edwards, Black Belt, Hurricane Katrina, Watergate, New Orleans Leak, When the Levees Broke, Levees, George Stephanopoulos, ABC Debate, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Bittergate, Harry Shearer, Bitter, MoveOn.Org, Home News

The scandal this time is that there's no scandal. The leak John McCain should be addressing in New Orleans is the one at the 17th Street Canal Floodwall, the same one that was leaking before Katrina.

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Oops! Just a Little Leak

Harry Shearer | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Army Corps of Engineers, Hurricane Katrina, Rebuilding New Orleans, FEMA Hurricane Katrina, Politics News

Yesterday, the Times-Picayune carried a very restrained story about a potentially inflammatory subject: the Corps of Engineers has discovered a persistent leak in the 17th St. Canal floodwall.

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