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mailonsunday.co.uk:
We had to kill our patients — Doctors working in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans killed critically ill patients rather than leaving them to die in agony as they evacuated hospitals, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. — With gangs of rapists and looters rampaging through wards in the flooded city …
Kit Jarrell / euphoricreality.net:
9/11 : I Remember — I had just taken a new position the day before as the manager of a bank in South Dakota. I was at the main branch on the drive-up lane, and my co-worker Carol and I were chatting and listening to the radio we had back there as we took care of the morning's business customers.
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Ogre / Ogre's Politics & Views:September 11th — Today many are posting about memories from September 11th.
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Jim Lynch / bRight & Early:Never Forget — For the most part I will use this to point …
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John / AMERICAblog:
NEWSWEEK: Bush didn't know the Hurricane damage was bad until THURSDAY AFTER IT STRUCK — Newsweek has just published a horrifying story entitled "How Bush Blew It." This is must-read for everyone, and this story must be shared widely. Bush should resign, now. He is the worst president in modern history.
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Evan Thomas / MSNBC:
How Bush Blew It — Bureaucratic timidity. Bad phone lines. And a failure of imagination. Why the government was so slow to respond to catastrophe. — Newsweek — Sept. 19, 2005 issue - It's a standing joke among the president's top aides: who gets to deliver the bad news?
Michael Kinsley / Los Angeles Times:
The fetid aroma of hindsight — Recriminations are all the rage today. But really, does anyone ever pay attention to the prophets of doom until it's too late? — AS A GOOD AMERICAN, you no doubt have been worried sick for years about the levees around New Orleans.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Louisiana Failed To Follow A Flawed Plan: Florida — Today's Palm Beach Post takes a look at the Katrina response from a Floridian point of view, one that has plenty of experience with hurricane devastation and response. The verdict of Florida's emergency response officials …
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Dusting Off The Manual — Kevin reports that Time magazine says the Republicans have a three point plan for a comeback after Katrina: … There's one other little way to gin up base conservative voters that we can already see developing on the shout fest and gasbags shows.
Toby Helm / Telegraph:
Jews and Freemasons controlled war on Iraq, says No 10 adviser — Tony Blair decided to wage war on Iraq after coming under the influence of a "sinister" group of Jews and Freemasons, a Muslim barrister who advises the Prime Minister has claimed. — Ahmad Thomson, from the Association of Muslim Lawyers …
Mike Allen / Time:
Living Too Much in the Bubble? — A bungled initial response to Katrina exposed the perils of a rigid, insular White House. Inside Bush's plan to show he isn't isolated — President bush was seated in the white house situation Room, watching military and disaster officials beaming …
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Michelle Malkin:
THE DEMOCRATS' KATRINA PROFITEER — From the "Bias? What liberal bias?" files... On Saturday, CNN.com had a piece titled "Firms with White House ties get Katrina contracts:" … The Baton Rouge-based Shaw Group, CNN tells us, is a major corporate client of Joe Allbaugh …
Nancy Benac / Associated Press:
Katrina Exodus Could Change Political Mix — WASHINGTON - Population shifts caused by the exodus of hurricane victims from the Gulf Coast could have ripple effects for years to come in Louisiana political races and perhaps beyond. — How big depends on how many people stay away …
Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:
Katrina Darkens the Outlook for Incumbents — Public Dismay Could Shape 2006 Elections — Hurricane Katrina has the potential to foment change in Washington like the terrorist strikes did four years ago, altering the government's priorities for the foreseeable future and darkening the mood …
Washington Post:
At 9/11 Walks, Remembrances Stream Forth — Thousands in D.C. and Va. Honor Victims, U.S. Troops — On a Sept. 11 as sunny and warm as that earth-shattering date four years ago, thousands of people yesterday remembered the terrorist attacks by walking in the nation's capital.
grandforks.com:
Poll shows Hoeven would be tough challenger for Conrad — FARGO, N.D. - A new poll shows that a race pitting Gov. John Hoeven as the challenger for Sen. Kent Conrad's seat would be a close battle. — Conrad's office called the poll "flawed," while Hoeven declined comment. The matchup is hypothetical.
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M.E. Sprengelmeyer / Rocky Mountain News:
Black-and-blue Brown — Disaster point man has been beat up by jobs, friends say — WASHINGTON - As criticism of him grew this week, Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Mike Brown sent a candid e-mail to family and friends. — "I don't mind the negative press (well, actually …
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Washington Post:
Poll Shows Kilgore Ahead of Kaine in Va. — Republican Jerry W. Kilgore is leading in the Virginia governor's race despite efforts by Democrat Timothy M. Kaine to tap widespread satisfaction with Gov. Mark R. Warner's performance, according to a new Washington Post poll.
neo-neocon:
A mind is a difficult thing to change: Part 6A (9/11: the watershed) — [On this fourth anniversary of 9/11, I am offering the following post. It represents part A of a projected two-part segment about 9/11. Parts A and B together will be the sixth entry in my ongoing series about intrapersonal political change.
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