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Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:
FEMA Chief Relieved of Katrina Command — WASHINGTON - Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown is being relieved of his command of the Bush administration's Hurricane Katrina onsite relief efforts, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced Friday.
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FEMA chief relieved of Katrina duties — Move follows controversy over Brown's qualifications, agency's response — WASHINGTON - Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown is being removed from his role managing Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, government sources said Friday.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Clueless Memorial Design, Take 2 — The designers of the Flight 93 memorial at the impact site unveiled their effort yesterday. In what seems to be a typical case of cluelessness among memorial designers, the site will prominently feature the religious symbol of the attackers themselves (via Michelle Malkin):
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Paula Reed Ward / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Flight 93 marker design picked — Maple trees, wind chimes honor those who died — WASHINGTON — It will serve as a living tribute. With each wind, each breeze, a set of chimes housed in a 93-foot tower will create a different song in memory of the 40 people who sacrificed their lives trying to save the lives of others.
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FLIGHT 93 MEMORIAL: CONTROVERSY — The Flight 93 Memorial design, titled "The Crescent of Embrace," was unveiled this week. — Take a close look: — Remind you of anything? — Tom Bevan at the indispensable Real Clear Politics gently raises some questions about the design.
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Shaun Waterman / Washington Times:
Cops trapped survivors in New Orleans — Police from surrounding jurisdictions shut down several access points to one of the only ways out of New Orleans last week, effectively trapping victims of Hurricane Katrina in the flooded and devastated city. — An eyewitness account …
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Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
Court Rules U.S. Can Indefinitely Detain Citizens — Ruling Comes in the Case of 'Enemy Combatant' Jose Padilla — A federal appeals court ruled today that the president can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen captured on U.S. soil in the absence of criminal charges, holding that such authority …
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Head of Federal Katrina Relief Effort Replaced — Death Toll May Not Be as High as Originally Feared — Authorities in New Orleans today wrapped up a search for survivors of Hurricane Katrina and launched a concerted operation to recover the bodies of people who perished in the flooding caused …
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
The Party of Performance — In the aftermath of Katrina, there's an opening for a different kind of politics in America. The new politics isn't about values; it isn't about settling scores. It's about performance. It's about putting a wounded, shaken country back on its feet …
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Matthew Yglesias / TAPPED:STRANGE NEWT RESPECT. You may have noticed something of an outbreak …
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Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:
Tight Constraints on Pentagon's Freedom Walk — Event Remembering 9/11, Troops to Be Kept 'Sterile,' Limited to Preregistered — Organizers of the Pentagon's 9/11 memorial Freedom Walk on Sunday are taking extraordinary measures to control participation in the march and concert …
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, GUYS — Today is September 9, the first anniversary of "Rathergate." It was at 7:51 on the morning of Sept. 9, 2004, that Scott hit the "save" button on the original version of "The Sixty-First Minute," that discussed the 60 Minutes program on President Bush's National Guard service …
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FEMA director Brown recalled to Washington — Official: Coast Guard admiral to coordinate Katrina relief efforts — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad Allen will replace Michael Brown, the embattled FEMA director, as the on-site head of hurricane relief operations in the Gulf Coast …
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Will Lester / Associated Press:
In Poll, Most Say Abandon Flooded Areas — WASHINGTON - More than half the people in this country say the flooded areas of New Orleans lying below sea level should be abandoned and rebuilt on higher ground. — An AP-Ipsos poll found that 54 percent of Americans want the vast sections …
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April Castro / Associated Press:
DeLay Organization Indicted in Texas — AUSTIN, Texas - A political organization formed by House Majority leader Tom DeLay and a prominent Texas business group face charges of taking illegal corporate money during the 2002 legislative campaigns. — DeLay, R-Texas, was not indicted …
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Thomas / The Galvin Opinion:
FORGOTTEN NATIONAL TRAGEDY: BILL CLINTON AND 1,000 DEATHS IN THE "CHICAGO HEAT WAVE" OF 1995 — Hillary Clinton has called for a "Katrina Commission." How come she never called for a commission to investigate why at least 1,000 Americans died in a 1995 heat wave when her husband was president?
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USA Today:
A compassionate Bush was absent right after Katrina — News analysis by Judy Keen and Richard Benedetto, USA TODAY — WASHINGTON — President Bush has shown that he can be empathetic, sensitive and decisive. But those qualities eluded him for days after Hurricane Katrina …