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U.S. drops banning media from body hunt — CNN filed suit for access to search for New Orleans' dead — HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) — Rather than fight a lawsuit by CNN, the federal government abandoned its effort Saturday to prevent the media from reporting on the recovery of the dead in New Orleans.
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Scott Ott / ScrappleFace:CNN Petitions to Dig Up Hastily-Buried Flood Victims
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:THE PRESS WANTS TO SHOW BODIES from Katrina. It didn't want …
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Associated Press:
Gore airlifts victims from New Orleans — Former vice president chartered two private aircraft — KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Al Gore helped airlift some 270 Katrina evacuees on two private charters from New Orleans, acting at the urging of a doctor who saved the life of the former vice president's son.
Los Angeles Times:
A Barrier That Could Have Been — Congress OKd a project to protect New Orleans 40 years ago, but an environmentalist suit halted it. Some say it could have worked. — In the wake of Hurricane Betsy 40 years ago, Congress approved a massive hurricane barrier to protect New Orleans from storm surges that could inundate the city.
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Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
The Bed Wetting Right? A.K.A. "So I'm a RINO. So Sue Me." — Tony Snow on the reaction to Hurricane Katrina: … At the risk of being accused of being a candidate for Depends, let's review some basic facts: — The head of the National Guard has acknowledged that the deployment …
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Michelle Malkin:
FLIGHT 93 MEMORIAL: SEEING IS BELIEVING — Tons of you are stunned, outraged, and sickened by the new Flight 93 Memorial, the "Crescent of Embrace." I called the architect responsible for the redesign, Paul Murdoch of Los Angeles, yesterday for comment. He did not return my call …
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Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Some GOP Legislators Hit Jarring Notes in Addressing Katrina — Some lawmakers are still struggling to find the sympathetic but diligent tone that a disaster such as Hurricane Katrina — and the lagging government response to its victims — would seem to call for.
James Wolcott:
FROM BLAME GAME TO NUMBERS GAME — The mayor of New Orleans predicted the death toll from Hurricane Katrina could reach 10,000. Officials at the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team—DMORT, an apt acronym—guesstimated the death toll at 40,000. Splitting the difference somewhat …
Washington Post:
Gonzales Is Defended As Suitable for Court — Allies Call Attorney General a True Conservative — Supporters of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales have launched a campaign to rebut criticism that he is not reliably conservative enough to serve on the Supreme Court …
Knight Ridder:
Brown is merely a symbol of the problems at FEMA, experts say — WASHINGTON - Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown, who on Friday was sent back to Washington, is the poster boy for what's gone wrong with an agency once lauded for its lightning reflexes.
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Associated Press:
Gay advocates plan to post names of anti-gay marriage petition signers — BOSTON —Two gay activists are promising to post on the Internet the names and addresses of anyone who signs a petition that could lead to a statewide ban on gay marriage. — The move by Thomas Lang and Alexander Westerhoff …
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La Shawn / La Shawn Barber's Corner:Two 'Tolerant' Homosexuals Try to Intimidate
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Tony Carnes / Opinion Journal:
The Russians Are Coming — The newest Jewish immigrants vote Republican. — Pity Larry Lowenthal. His job as executive director of the Boston branch of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) includes finding and training leaders from among the 700,000 Russian Jews who have immigrated to the U.S. in the last 30 years.
National Review:
Talking Their Way Out of the Scandal — AUTHOR'S NOTE: On September 7, Paul Volcker's United Nations-authorized Independent Inquiry Committee delivered its main report on the corrupt Oil-for-Food program through which the U.N. from 1996-2003 supervised oil sales and relief purchases for Saddam Hussein's U.N.-sanctioned Iraq.
jerrypournelle.com:
Trust Us — One thing is clear: federalizing everything into "FEMA" was a horrible idea. When there was an Office of Civil Defense and LOCAL Civil Defense organizations coordinated through the Federal OCD, there were training exercises, many of the officials were volunteers who lived in the area …
Will Lester / Associated Press:
In Poll, Most Say Abandon Flooded Areas — WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 …
James Gerstenzang / Los Angeles Times:
Embattled FEMA Chief Removed From Hurricane Relief Efforts — WASHINGTON — Michael Brown, the embattled head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, was removed today from a direct role in running the relief and recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Michael Chertoff …
ctv.ca:
FEMA director pulled from hurricane relief — Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown was pulled off relief operations in the area on Friday. — Critics have been calling for Brown's resignation over FEMA's slow response to the disaster.
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Associated Press:
Voluntary evacuations just about finished — Authorities say fewer bodies than expected found during sweep — NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) — Authorities said their systematic sweep of New Orleans to get voluntary evacuees out was nearly complete, and far fewer bodies than expected or feared were found during the operation.
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