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Cantor Watched Britney Spears Concert During Obama Presser, Landrieu Denies Rumors

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mary Landrieu, Britney Spears, Britney Spears Concert, Eric Cantor, Politics News

UPDATE 3/26: Cantor defends attending the Britney concert There was more than one whip at last night's Britney Spears concert in Washington DC. ...

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The Monkey's Pawn: Monkey Misery Outshines Human Misery in Louisiana's Delta

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 04.11.2009 | Media

Read More: New Orleans, Animal Rights, Human Rights, Louisiana, Rural Poor, Fema, Mary Landrieu, Hurricane Recovery, Media Bias, Congo, Media News
Georgianne Nienaber

While the NYT signals that all is well in Congo because the mountain gorilla is well fed, a woman places her newborn baby on a tattered piece of cloth covering a bed of grass on lava rock.

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Ryan Grim

Red States Gobble Up Omnibus Earmarks

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mitch McConnell, Senate Republicans, Dianne Feinstein, Omnibus Spending Bill, Robert Byrd, Thad Cochran, Roger Wicker, Omnibus, Mary Landrieu, Omnibus Earmarks, Kit Bond, Senate GOP, Earmarks, Harry Reid, Richard Shelby, Senate Democrats, David Vitter, Politics News

If it's budget time, it's good to be a red state. And it's very good to be Mississippi. According to an analysis by the nonpartisan Taxpayers for Co...

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Louisiana's Landrieu Calls for Resignation of FEMA Chief of Staff

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics

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Georgianne Nienaber

The four-year anniversary of Katrina approaches in August. Life in New Orleans has not returned to pre-storm "normality," despite billions of federal dollars that never seem to reach the ground.

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Are GOP Governors Who Turn Down Stimulus Money Unpatriotic?

Mitchell Bard | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

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Mitchell Bard

Bobby Jindal is playing politics, branding himself and his party in an effort to return to power, all at the expense of the people of his state.

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Obama and Democrats Fighting Hard on GOP Turf

Paul Jenkins | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

All told, 20 states are currently at high risk of loss by the Republican party in either the presidential election, the Senate race, or both. How is that for expanding the playing field?

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Friday Talking Points [48] -- Throwing Out The Rulebook

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Back in Volume 36 of this Friday Talking Points column, I pointed out what seemed to me to be an obvious observation -- that the media was going a lot...

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Louisiana's Landrieu Dogs FEMA and Protects Fourth Estate

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Congress, Fema Trailers, Fema, Freedom of Press, Mary Landrieu, Louisiana, Accountability, Politics News
Georgianne Nienaber

As a journalist who works regularly in Africa, I take press freedoms pretty seriously.

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On the Ground: Disaster Flood Engineering

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 06.25.2008 | Green

Read More: Katrina, Floods, Mary Landrieu, US Army Corps of Engineers, Naomi Klein, Tom Harkin, Iowa, Green News
Georgianne Nienaber

With the epic dimensions of this flood and the scope of infrastructure failures, how can the Army Corps of Engineers say to the devastated people that they had better get busy and "top the levees?"

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