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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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Death Toll of 10,000 Now Called Unlikely — NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 9 — City officials said Friday that the death toll from Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath may be far lower than originally feared, as troops and police shifted their attention from rescue of the living to recovery of those who died here in the past 11 days.
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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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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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Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:
Embattled Brown Taken Off Katrina Duty — Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown, the principal target of harsh criticism of the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina, was relieved of his onsite command Friday. — He will be replaced by Coast Guard Vice …
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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.
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 …
The MinuteMan / JustOneMinute:
What's Race Got To Do With It? — Are racial tensions and divides a part of the New Orleans story? One might think so. Here, for example, is a story from the UPI telling us that the suburban police blocked the bridge leading from New Orleans across the Mississippi River to Gretna.
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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 …
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
MORE ON FEMA....Seth Borenstein and Shannon McCaffrey of Knight Ridder report on the personnel implosion at FEMA under the Bush administration: … I suspect the FEMA meltdown is only going to look worse and worse as reporters continue to investigate this. And for anyone who thinks FEMA …
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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.
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 …
Associated Press:
Iraq hurt Katrina response, general says — Pentagon says it can handle both the disaster and Iraq war — BAY ST. LOUIS, Mississippi (AP) — The deployment of thousands of National Guard troops from Mississippi and Louisiana in Iraq when Hurricane Katrina struck hindered …
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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.
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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