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Katrina and Disgusting Exploitation By / TCS — Permalink A profound tragedy is unfolding in New Orleans, the most beautiful city in America, with the richest cultural history and the most wonderful style of living. I lived in New Orleans for seven years. I was married there. My children were born there. | |
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Philip Chaston: James Glassman, over at TCS, quotes some of the "environmental extremists" who wrote before they thought. TheAnchoress: And so does this guy. Seminarians based in NO are safe and helping about 100 others stay safe. Just thought I'd post positive news. Ace: Over at Tech Central Station, James K. Glassman similarly deadpans, "Yes, no flood or storm or hurricane could possibly... |
John @PowerLine: It doesn't take a physicist to figure out that hurricanes are hardly an artifact of current carbon dioxide emissions, as... Steve Bainbridge: Making Political Hay out of Katrina — Over at TCS, James Glassman and ST Karnick blast the environmentalists blaming... Nick Gillespie: That's crap, sez Glassman, who points out: [snipped quote] Whole thing here. Reason checked the barometer on hurricanoes and global warming a while back. |
| Also: Lorie Byrd, MarkInMexico, Glenn Reynolds, Andrew Sullivan, Ed Driscoll, Jonah Goldberg | |
President Commemorates 60th Anniversary of V-J Day White House — Permalink THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Thanks for the warm welcome. It's good to be back in California. Good to be here at North Island. This is the birthplace of naval aviation, and I want to thank you for making this son of a naval aviator feel right at home. (Applause.) | |
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McQ: It seems that Bush, in his 60th Anniversary of VJ day speech said this: [quote] "If Zarqawi and bin Laden gain control of...[end quote] MarkInMexico: UPDATE 1: AfterDowningStreet.org - featuring the poor, addled Cindy Sheehan, mumbling about this - "George is finished... Avedon Carol: Things to see — I thought such a suggestion was supposed to be tin-foil hat stuff, but George Bush delivers a new reason for why we invaded Iraq - and it was about oil! |
Steve Bainbridge: Here's what the President actually said: "If Zarqawi and bin Laden gain control of Iraq, they would create a new... Cindy Sheehan: (George Bush, August 30, 2005 in San Diego.) So it is official, Casey had his blood shed in Iraq for Oil. Conor @ThinkProgress: But in comments yesterday at California's North Island Naval Air Station, Bush rolled out a new rationale for why we... |
| Also: Gateway Pundit, Mimus Pauly, Paul Glastris | |
Mayor: Katrina May Have Killed Thousands By / AP — Permalink NEW ORLEANS - Hurricane Katrina probably killed thousands of people in New Orleans, the mayor said Wednesday — an estimate that, if accurate, would make the storm the nation's deadliest natural disaster since at least the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. | |
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Tim Shey: One of the greatest challenges will be supporting all the people displaced from New Orleans, which increasingly is... Steve Soto: He's Monitoring The Catastrophe - From A Mile Up — As the mayor of New Orleans tells us the worst, that in fact there... Alcibiades @KesherTalk: UPDATE from Judith: The mayor is reporting that thousands may have been killed: "an estimate that, if accurate, would... |
Teresa: Now, of course: The governor of Louisiana says everyone needs to leave New Orleans due to flooding from Hurricane Katrina. Jack Grant: The hurricane Katrina... ...cut a swath of devastation through the Lousiana, Mississippi, and Alabama coasts that may have resulted in the deaths of thousands in New Orleans alone. James Joyner: Update: Mayor: Katrina May Have Killed Thousands (AP) "The mayor said Wednesday that Hurricane Katrina probably killed thousands of people in New Orleans. |
| Also: Plutonium Page | |
At Least 600 Shiite Pilgrims Killed in Panic on Tigris Bridge By / NYT — Permalink BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 31 - More than 600 people were killed and hundreds injured this morning when rumors of a suicide bomber led to a stampede in a vast procession of Shiite pilgrims as they crossed a bridge on their way to a shrine in northern Baghdad. | |
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Jan Haugland: Baghdad stampede kills more than 800 — Fear of terror tragically kills more people than any terrorist attack has managed. John Cole: More Horrific News This is, quite simply, horrifying: More than 600 people were killed and hundreds injured this... Jack Grant: In the face of tragedies...in more than one place, with large scale terrors where hundreds die or widespread horrors... |
Stephen Elliott: Meanwhile, at least 800 Iraqis die after a stampede caused by a rumor of a suicide bomber. Could things be worse? Gateway Pundit: Update: Death Toll to reach over 1,000! ** Over 640 are believed to have died in the stampede today! Dr. Steven Taylor: Tragedy in Iraq — Via the NYT comes what would be the major story today were it not for Katrina: At Least 648 Shiite... |
| Also: Gary Farber, Plutonium Page, Kevin Drum | |
Buses prepared to bring Superdome refugees to Astrodome Houston Chronicle — Permalink NEW ORLEANS — As water continued to rise in New Orleans and Army engineers struggled to plug breached levees with giant sandbags and concrete barriers, Texas officials have worked out a plan to bring up to 23,000 refugees from the Superdome to Houston's Astrodome. | |
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Brian Maloney: Refugees moving to Houston's Astrodome. --- Cindy Sheehan even more unhinged on Bush, oil prices and Katrina. Charles Kuffner: The top story in the Chronicle is that the refugees currently being housed in the Superdome will be coming to Houston. Scared Monkeys: 23,000 Super Dome refugees boarding buses for Astrodome to escape the heat, lack of food water and sanitary conditions of the SuperDome. |
Joe Gandelman: So bad that, the Houston Chronicle reports, "(as) water continued to rise in New Orleans today, Texas officials have... Michelle Malkin: Evacuees from the Superdome will be moved to the Astrodome. BlogHouston is up-to-date on the latest community efforts to welcome the evacuees. |
Governor: Everyone Must Leave New Orleans By / AP — Permalink NEW ORLEANS - The governor of Louisiana says everyone needs to leave New Orleans due to flooding from Hurricane Katrina. "We've sent buses in. We will be either loading them by boat, helicopter, anything that is necessary," Gov. Kathleen Blanco said. | |
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MarkInMexico: Rising Hegemon , responding to this article - "He may be disciplined in getting his R&R but he's just a lazy mother-f**ker to me." Champollion: While matters in Iraq worsen, while the Mississippi delta is in ruin, let's not forget the souls of the departed... Dr. Steven Taylor: 12 to 16 Weeks — My word: Governor: Everyone Must Leave New Orleans [snipped quote] Wow. 3 to 4 months. h/t: The Glittering Eye |
Joe Gandelman: An this AP report notes a message from the governor of Louisiana: Get out of New Orleans now: "NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The... Jeralyn Merritt: From Superdome to Astrodome: Mandatory Evacuation — The Governor of Lousiana has ordered a mandatory evacuation of the... |
Unrest grows in flooded New Orleans CNN — Permalink NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) — As parts of flooded New Orleans slip into chaos and Gulf Coast communities struggle to deal with the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana's governor is declaring Wednesday a day of prayer. | |
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James Joyner: Unrest grows in flooded New Orleans (CNN) "As parts of flooded New Orleans slip into chaos and Gulf Coast communities... Steve Clemons: The National Guard has been called out in New Orleans — and I would imagine in Mississippi and Alabama. La Shawn Barber: [Or has it? ] As usual, lawlessness has broken out, and people are stealing food, clothing…and computers. |
MarkInMexico: Corrente, responding to this article - "Because drowning his (Bush's) own people isn't enough for him: his plans also include suffocating them, too." Natasha @PacificViews: As of this posting, these are some of the latest situation reports. Riggsveda @Corrente: And it's getting worse. Maybe this will be the tragedy that will open the country's eyes to just how dangerous Bush is. |
| Also: Laura Rozen | |
Blogger Faces Lawsuit Over Comments Posted by Readers By / WSJ — Permalink In a legal case being watched closely by bloggers, an Internet company has sued the owner of a Web log for comments posted to his site by readers. Traffic-Power.com sued Aaron Wall, who maintains a blog on search engine optimization – tactics... | |
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James Joyner: Blogger Faces Lawsuit Over Comments Posted by Readers (WSJ) [snipped quote] Obviously, Wall should be accountable for... Gary Farber: BLOGGER SUED OVER READER COMMENTS. A case to watch. Read The Rest as concerned; at least I can't be sued over comments I don't get. |
Juan Cole: Weblogging Liability — The question of whether Weblog owners are legally liable for comments made by readers could be settled by a current lawsuit. Andrew Sullivan: A BLOGGER'S NIGHTMARE: A law-suit against a reader's comment. |
New Orleans Is Now Off Limits; Pentagon Joins in Relief Effort NYT — Permalink NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 31 - Search and rescue teams in helicopters and boats braved the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina today to look for survivors in the battered city of New Orleans, which was isolated and virtually submerged after water broke through two levees on Tuesday, and efforts were being made today to stanch the flooding with sandbags. | |
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Joe Gandelman: As New Orleans has been declared off limits, the Pentagon is reportedly stepping in, according to the New York Timesf Stirling Newberry: New Orleans has been declared off limits, and military rescue teams are being flown in from as far away as California. |
Steve Soto: If the President declared Louisiana a disaster area back on Monday, why was this major effort only kicking off late... Tom Maguire: New Orleans — The NY Times has extensive coverage of the hurricane, including this on New Orleans. |
Day-After Pill Decision Prompts a Resignation AP — Permalink WASHINGTON — A high-ranking Food and Drug Administration official resigned Wednesday in protest over the agency's refusal to allow over-the-counter sales of emergency contraception. Susan Wood, director of FDA's Office of Women's Health, announced her resignation in an e-mail to colleagues at the agency. | |
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Echidne: Neither did I. But she is a woman of principles, and she used to work for Bush's Food and Drug Administration: [snipped quote] But it's ultimately a fairly powerless act. Armando @DailyKos: Diogenes Hits Paydirt: A Principled Bush Administration Official — FDA Official Resigns Over Politicization of "Morning... |
Gary Farber: THE DAY AFTER, YOU RESIGN. That's what you do when you can't abort an indefensible policy. Matt Singer: Principled Administration Official Resigns — New York Times reports: [snipped quote] She cites the politicization of... |
Newspaper That Had Warned Of Disaster Lives Own Prophecy By / WSJ — Permalink Three years ago, the New Orleans Times-Picayune won journalism awards for an exhaustive five-part series called "Washing Away," which began with the words: "It's only a matter of time before south Louisiana takes a direct hit from a major hurricane. | |
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MarkInMexico: Main Page Save Louisiana - invade Canada The Wall Street Journal points to this report which is a must-read before... Jan Haugland: New Orleans paper that predicted hurricane disaster now lives it — Joe Hagan on the hurricane as a predicted disaster:... Jim Romenesko: Times-Picayune's 2002 five-part series warned of disaster — Wall Street Journal The paper's "Washing Away" series... |
Kevin Roderick: Maybe they deserve a retroactive Pulitzer. Read the series. Story today in the Wall Street Journal. Laura Rozen: From Romenesko: [quote] Times-Picayune's 2002 five-part series warned of disaster Wall Street Journal The paper's "Washing...[end quote] |
Mayor blasts failure to patch levee breaches CNN — Permalink NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) — A day after Hurricane Katrina dealt a devastating blow to the Big Easy, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on Tuesday night blasted what he called a lack of coordination in relief efforts for setting behind the city's recovery. | |
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James Joyner: Mayor blasts failure to patch levee breaches (CNN) "A day after Hurricane Katrina dealt a devastating blow to the Big... Josh Marshall: No Coordination |
Kevin Drum: Witt resurrected FEMA's reputation and turned it into a highly respected agency, but via email, Franklin wonders if the... |
Did New Orleans Catastrophe Have to Happen? Yahoo! News — Permalink PHILADELPHIA Even though Hurricane Katrina has moved well north of the city, the waters may still keep rising in New Orleans late on Tuesday. That's because Lake Pontchartrain continues to pour through a two-block-long break in the main levee, near the city's 17th Street Canal. | |
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Arianna Huffington: It was as if by piling so many disparate numbers so high he might be able to block out the two most significant numbers... Rich Lowry: LEVEES AND BUSH — We'll be hearing more about this line of argument I'm sure: "Over the next 10 years, the Army Corps... |
Jayson @PoliPundit: And Editor & Publisher already has started in with the predictable Bush bashing concerning pre-Katrina infrastructure spending. |
Bush gives new reason for Iraq war By / AP — Permalink CORONADO, Calif. — President Bush answered growing antiwar protests yesterday with a fresh reason for US troops to continue fighting in Iraq: protection of the country's vast oil fields, which he said would otherwise fall under the control of terrorist extremists. | |
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Susie Madrak: Reason du Jour Bubble Boy comes up with something closer to the real reason to explain why we're at war in Iraq: ... Echidne: She swallowed the goat to catch the dog She swallowed the dog to catch the cat She swallowed the cat to catch the bird... |
James Joyner: Katrina: President Bush to Tap Strategic Petroleum Reserve — In response to the devastation of the Louisiana coast... Digby: Reason #673 — [snipped quote] That's a pretty good spin on the "no blood for oil" theme, you have to admit. |
Flooding will only get worse By / New Orleans Times-Picayune — Permalink The catastrophic flooding that filled the bowl that is New Orleans on Monday and Tuesday will only get worse over the next few days because rainfall from Hurricane Katrina continues to flow into Lake Pontchartrain from north shore rivers and streams, and east... | |
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Joe Gandelman: And there are now predictions that due to rainfall and water back up the flooding in New Orleans over the next few days will actually get WORSE. Riggsveda @Corrente: The Times-Picayune has outlined a nightmare scenario of things to come. |
Lambert @Corrente: Katrina: Flaming oil on troubled waters — Expanding on Riggsveda's earlier post (back) read to the end to get the real nightmare scenario: [snipped quote] Savage irony, eh? |
New Rules Could Allow Power Plants to Pollute More By / WaPo — Permalink The Bush administration has drafted regulations that would ease pollution controls on older, dirtier power plants and could allow those that modernize to emit more pollution, rather than less. | |
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John Cole: Clearing The Air The administration seems to be re-working air pollution regulations: The Bush administration has... Riggsveda @Corrente: Because drowning his own people isn't enough for him: his plans also include suffocating them, too. |
Jo Fish: Clear Skies, My Ass — Once upon a time...ah, s**t. This is not, unfortunately a fairy tale. Pudentilla: awol's new epa rules: chew your air thoroughly before breathing — [snipped quote] what part of [snipped quote] don't you understand? |
Poll: Fewer See Dems As Religion-Friendly By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats' efforts to improve their image with religious voters after the 2004 presidential election appear to be getting off to a bumpy start. Fewer people see Democrats as friendly to religion now than felt that way a year ago, according to a poll released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. | |
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Joe Gandelman: Poll Brings Bad News For Democrats On Religion Front — President George Bush has been getting steadily bad polling news... Gateway Pundit: Polling results were released today claiming that fewer Americans see democrats as Religion-Friendly. Holy Moses! Is this news? Jack Fowler: The Washington Post article on the poll has basics. And here's the Pew study. |
Montag: Democrats Not Seen as Religion Friendly — An Associated Press headline declares "Poll: Fewer See Dems As Religion-Friendly." California Yankee: The Associated Press reports a new poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press finds that fewer people... |
Navy Ships and Maritime Rescue Teams Are Sent to Region NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 - The Pentagon late Tuesday ordered five Navy ships and eight maritime rescue teams to the Gulf Coast to bolster relief operations as worsening conditions overwhelmed the initial response. Hurricane Katrina spared New Orleans a catastrophic hit but inundated the city. | |
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MarkInMexico: And then, the same oil we fought so hard to seize in the Mideast, floating on the floodwaters, catches fire..." The Left... Kos @DailyKos: Glad the president is finally on it — He's finally decided to show up to work. |
Steve Soto: Why four years after 9/11 and billions of dollars for DHS, are FEMA and state/local officials unable to communicate on radios because of different equipment and frequencies? |
Hands Full, Officials Are Helpless Against Looters AP — Permalink NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With law officers and National Guardsmen focused on saving lives, looters around the city spent another day brazenly ransacking stores for food, clothing, appliances — and guns. Photographs and video from one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the Gulf Coast. | |
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Matthew Yglesias: A lot of the coverage of looting in New Orleans seems to fail to draw some necessary distinctions — or, worse, is... Gary Farber: THE LOOTERS are in force: [snipped quote] Looting food and survival equipment (including diapers) is one thing, and... |
Fontana Labs: On the other hand, people stealing guns is sort of a problem. Louisiana: it's the state...of nature! |
Pfizer vs. al Qaeda NRO — Permalink Give me a break. How's this for a plot? There's this international conspiracy to acquire nuclear weapons and kill millions of Americans. The conspirators act with the aid of various governments, some of which pretend to be our friends. | |
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Ed Driscoll: Hollywood's Moral Relativism — Jonah Goldberg looks 21st century Hollywood's moral relativism: [snipped quote] Nahh—just on the left. Betsy Newmark: Jonah Goldberg wonders why Hollywood is quite happy to make movies where American corporations such as the drug... |
Roy @Alicublog: Jonah Goldberg. Don't bother with the rest of the column, which is one of those rightwing evergreens about how Hollywood Hates America. |
"No One Can Say they Didn't See it Coming" By / DER SPIEGEL — Permalink In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war. | |
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Alcibiades @KesherTalk: In the corner on the right, we have incensed and unforgiving religious Jews blaming Hurricane Katrina on Bush for forcing the Gaza Disengagement on Israel. |
Kathryn Jean Lopez: KATRINA BLAME — Sid Blumenthal blames Bush |
New Orleans Mayor Says Katrina May Have Killed Thousands By / LAT — Permalink NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Katrina most likely killed thousands of people in this beleaguered city, the mayor said today as officials prepared to close down New Orleans and evacuate 25,000 people from their deteriorating shelter at the Superdome. | |
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Randy Paul: Hat tip to my brother JB. This, by the way, is in a word, horrifying: [snipped quote] It's summertime. |
Kevin Drum: MAYOR: "MOST LIKELY THOUSANDS" DEAD IN NEW ORLEANS....If this turns out to be right, it's truly unbelievable: [snipped quote] Good Lord. |
More Than 600 Killed in Baghdad Stampede WaPo — Permalink BAGHDAD, Aug. 31 — Rumors of a suicide bomber helped set off a stampede Wednesday among tens of thousands of Shiite Muslim pilgrims on a Tigris River bridge, killing at least 637 people as panicked worshipers hurled themselves off the bridge or trampled others underfoot, Iraqi authorities and survivors said. | |
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Vanderleun: ONE IRAQ CITY SOLVES TERRORIST PROBLEM: Battle at the Border : "'We decided, either we force them out of the city or... Ezra Klein: Stampede — This is the state of fear Iraqis live in now: "Rumors of a suicide bomber helped set off a stampede... |
Laura Rozen: Baghdad stampede kills hundreds: "...Rumors of a suicide bomber helped set off a stampede Wednesday among tens of... |
Conditions deteriorate in Katrina's wake CNN — Permalink (CNN) — Rescuers and residents along the Gulf Coast struggled Wednesday to cope with the destruction left by Hurricane Katrina, as New Orleans faced a horrifying trio of challenges — rising water, stranded people and a refugee situation that is getting worse by the hour. | |
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Joe Gandelman: As CNN notes, the storm has created several: rising floods, storm damage — and a formidable refugee problem. Gene @HarrysPlace: But at the moment I'm feeling overwhelmed by terrible news at home and abroad. |
Kos @DailyKos: The numbers should be brutal. "Meanwhile, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin reportedly said Wednesday that the storm probably... |
New Orleans in Peril NYT — Permalink On the day after Hurricane Katrina was declared to be not as bad as originally feared, it became clear that the effects of the storm had been, after all, beyond devastation. Homeowners in Biloxi, Miss., staggered through wrecked neighborhoods looking for their loved ones. | |
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MarkInMexico: Off the Kuff, responding to this NYT article - "...we're going to need to confront the questions about whether or not... Joe Gandelman: A Times editorial articulated what many feel watching a spectacle that is seemingly unthinkeable...yet, has been indeed... Garance Franke-Ruta: The New York Times is also clear on what's at stake and who will have to intervene, writing in an editorial today:... |
Vanderleun: New Orleans in Peril: But this seems like the wrong moment to dwell on fault-finding, or even to point out that it took... Charles Kuffner: Two items in closing: One, I agree wholeheartedly with this NYT editorial (via Atrios): "Those of us in New York watch... Barbara O'Brien: Also via Americablog, "the New York Times lead editorial levels criticism at Bush while saying now is not the time to level criticism at Bush." |
| Also: Susie Madrak, Atrios, Hilzoy @ObsidianWings | |
Fox News is red hot in August By / Reuters — Permalink NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Fox News scored its largest audience so far this year in August, a month when most of the other cable news channels suffered ratings declines in comparison with convention-heavy 2004. | |
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MarkInMexico: Fox buries CNN in August — FOXNews destroyed CNN, CNN Headline News and MSNBC in August, according to this report. Marc @USSNeverdock: America - Fox News Continues Gains — More and more people are getting the truth and that's good news. Reuters reports. |
Brian Stelter: August #'s: "Fox News Is Red Hot" ...That's the headline on The Hollywood Reporter's August recap: "Fox News scored its... |
Iraq stampede toll to hit 1,000-health official Reuters — Permalink BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The death toll in a stampede on a Baghdad bridge is expected to reach 1,000, a general manager at Iraq's Health Ministry said on Wednesday. "An hour ago the death toll was 695 killed, but we expect it to hit 1,000," Dr Jaseb Latif Ali told Reuters. | |
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Juan Cole: 1000 May be Dead in Kadhimiyah Stampede — The mortar attack by guerrillas on the Shiite worshippers heading for the... |
Gary Farber: ADDENDUM: It's worse: [quote] "An hour ago the death toll was 695 killed, but we expect it to hit 1,000," Dr Jaseb Latif Ali told Reuters.[end quote] |
The gangstas in my neighborhood By / Townhall.com — Permalink The peaceful suburbs of Washington, D.C., are beginning to look and feel like East Los Angeles. The violent illegal alien gang Mara Salvatrucha (or MS-13) has thoroughly penetrated the region — and its murderous members continue to be aided and abetted by reckless government officials at every level who refuse to enforce our immigration laws. | |
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Amanda Marcotte: Unfortunately, Michelle Malkin didn't get the talking points today. |
La Shawn Barber: Impeach George Bush… …for allowing the invasion of illegal aliens, says Pat Buchanan |
Strain of Iraq War Means the Relief Burden Will Have to Be Shared By / WaPo — Permalink With thousands of their citizen-soldiers away fighting in Iraq, states hit hard by Hurricane Katrina scrambled to muster forces for rescue and security missions yesterday — calling up Army bands and water-purification teams, among other units, and requesting help from distant states and the active-duty military. | |
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Tim Shey: Tim Shey: A Unique Need for Help — The relief effort in New Orleans and the Gulf coast is going to be a complicated and... Stephen Elliott: The Guardsmen that are on duty have all already been in Iraq, the other's are still there. Barbara O'Brien: Ann Scott Tyson writes in the Washington Post: "With thousands of their citizen-soldiers away fighting in Iraq, states... |
MarkInMexico: DC Media Girl, responding gleefully to this article apparently expects all the citizens of Louisiana, Mississippi and... TheAnchoress: Greyhawk ends his message with a depressed acknowledgement that the press cannot help itself and is already trying to politicize this tragic issue. Jo Fish: Mississippi and Louisiana sure would like to have some of their own National Guard folks at home to help with recovery. |
| Also: DC Media Girl, Attaturk, Richard Gardner, Susie Madrak | |
The War Among the Democrats By / Weekly Standard — Permalink ON AUGUST 16, ELIZABETH Edwards, the wife of the failed vice presidential candidate, sent out an email. She urged recipients to sign an online petition in support of Cindy Sheehan, the bereaved mother of a 24-year-old soldier who was killed in Iraq last year. | |
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TheAnchoress: She gives Jonah's thoughts on Hollywood a nice showcase and then moves to the meat and potatoes stuff, linking to Matthew Continetti's piece on the war among the democrats. |
Betsy Newmark: Matthew Continetti has an article today about the "war" in the Democratic Party. |
Accounting for the Final Report By / Weekly Standard — Permalink IN 2003, as part of that year's Intelligence Authorization Act, Congress specifically authorized the creation and funding of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, which quickly and simply changed its common name to the 9/11 Commission. | |
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TheAnchoress: A little more OT, but this time it's important, Ed Morrissey continues his dogged and intense scrutiny of the 9/11 Commission. Scott @PowerLine: In his Daily Standard column today, he provides a summing up: "Accounting for the final report." |
Captain Ed: The Great Not There — My column today at the Daily Standard, "Accounting for the Final Report", reviews the standing of... |
A Lipstick President By / NYT — Permalink The president is working up a sweat, keeping that perfectly toned body perfectly toned. I slide past stone-faced men with earpieces and ask the president how it's going. Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times "Good," she says, grinning. | |
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MJA @SouthernAppeal: Maureen Dowd on how Hillary can help Americans say what they secretly feel — My good friend Jonathan Hooks sent me some... Kathryn Jean Lopez: TODAY MAUREEN DOWD EXPLAINS HOW SHE CAN READ HER OWN COLUMN — "Redheads, a recent study showed, have a higher tolerance for pain." |
Stirling Newberry: Modo Hits Her Royal Clintonness for not leading — Iraq is the ur-issue. Permalink Stirling Newberry - Comments (0) |
635 dead in Baghdad stampede CNN — Permalink BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — At least 635 people have been killed and 237 others injured in a stampede on a bridge near a Shiite mosque in northeastern Baghdad, police said. According to witnesses, the stampede started after someone screamed that a suicide bomber was in the crowd of pilgrims gathered for a religious commemoration Wednesday. | |
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Josh Marshall: Late Update: A late report puts the number at a staggring 965 dead. FrancoAlemán: MORE THAN 600 DEAD in a stampede in Baghdad: [snipped quote] Click here to send me an email |
James Joyner: Baghdad Stampede Kills 648 — A stampede apparently caused when someone shouted "suicide bomber" on a crowded bridge has... |
Assassination? There's a More Effective Way to 'Take Someone Out' By / Daily Californian — Permalink If Paul Wolfowitz thinks his enemies are trying to assassinate him, I think we really ought to go ahead and do it. This man is a terrific danger. We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. | |
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Jeff Goldstein: There's a More Effective Way to 'Take Someone Out,'" from Tuesday's Daily Cal (with helpful glosses provided by yours... |
Ace: Now Daily Californian Pundit Calls For Assassination... Of American Citizen Paul Wolfowitz — Okay, he pussies out of it... |
Teaching of Creationism Is Endorsed in New Survey By / NYT — Permalink In a finding that is likely to intensify the debate over what to teach students about the origins of life, a poll released yesterday found that nearly two-thirds of Americans say that creationism should be taught alongside evolution in public schools. | |
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Steve M.: So, if we're going to treat evolution as debatable in American schools — if we're going to "teach the controversy," as... Tbogg: Land of a thousand dunces — "I should have been more of a dick..." Posted by Picasa Oh fer cryin' out loud: In a... Ann Althouse: A new poll shows that almost two-thirds of Americans think public schools ought to teach children about creationism when... |
Amanda Marcotte: However, if it's a convenient area for disinterested reporters to gloss over, you get a poll and simply endorse the idea... Andrew Stuttaford: GREAT MOMENTS IN AMERICAN EDUCATION — A new poll quoted in the New York Times has found that 42 percent of Americans... Gary Farber: The latest Pew poll on religion in America came out yesterday; I was going to wait to comment until I'd read all the... |
Hundreds dead in Baghdad stampede BBC — Permalink More than 600 people have been killed in a stampede of Shia pilgrims in northern Baghdad, Iraqi officials say. The incident happened on a bridge over the Tigris River as about one million Shias marched to a shrine for an annual religious festival. | |
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Marc @USSNeverdock: Iraq stampede kills 'up to 1,000' — Leave it to the BBC to politicize this human disaster. Atrios: Jeebus — Iraq: "More than 600 people have been killed in a stampede of Shia pilgrims in northern Baghdad, Iraqi officials say. |
Plutonium Page: Updated: [snipped quote] This much worse: [snipped quote] The pilgrims were gathering for the annual commemoration of the... |
Let's Pie Paul Wolfowitz By / Daily Californian — Permalink If Paul Wolfowitz thinks his enemies are trying to assassinate him, I think we really ought to go ahead and do it. This man is a terrific danger. We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. | |
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TheAnchoress: Meanwhile, "the smart people" are talking assassination and pie throwing re Paul Wolfowitz. I am so tired of the "smart people." |
Kathryn Jean Lopez: "LET'S PIE PAUL WOLFOWITZ" — Mature, responsible commentary from the Left. |
Invasion of the Isolationists By / NYT — Permalink AS we mark four years since Sept. 11, 2001, one way to organize a review of what has happened in American foreign policy since that terrible day is with a question: To what extent has that policy flowed from the wellspring of American politics and culture, and to what extent has it flowed from the particularities of this president and this administration? | |
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Paul McLeary: In today's New York Times, Mr. "End-of-History" himself, Francis Fukuyama, has an op-ed in which he claims that the Bush... Avedon Carol: Francis Fukuyama's slow progress toward sense has brought him almost to the brink - now, if only he reaches the point of... The Mock Turtle: Fukuyama in the New York Times — Francis "The End of History" Fukuyama has an op-ed in the Times today. |
Tom Maguire: More broadly, Gregory Djerejian provides a long reading list to work through on Iraq, including this article from Francis Fukayama. Michael J.W. Stickings: Fukuyama on Iraq — If you read one thing today, this should be it: Francis Fukuyama, author of The End of History and... Stirling Newberry: Hell Freezes Over — If even "The End of History" guy makes sense, then hell has, officially, frozen over:... |
| Also: Michael Stickings, Gregory Djerejian, Laura Rozen | |
Brothers in Arms, But Sisters at Odds By / WaPo — Permalink Steve Moore's children don't get along. When Moore, a longtime anti-tax activist, joined the Wall Street Journal editorial board earlier this year, he left behind two Washington political groups he started: the Club for Growth and the Free Enterprise Fund. | |
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Pudentilla: coming apart at the seams? "brothers in arms, but sisters at odds - no love lost between conservative groups with shared parent - steve moore's children don't get along. |
Roger Ailes: Free Enterprise Fraud — More lying right-wingers: [snipped quote] Wow. These guys are such losers you'd think they were rightwing bloggers. |
Conservative Author Is Seeing Red in America WaPo — Permalink Cindy Sheehan: anti-American communist? That was the accusation coming yesterday from the Heritage Foundation, which hosted author John J. Tierney Jr. for a forum titled "The Politics of Peace: What's Behind the Anti-War Movement?" | |
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Atrios: Inside the Mind of John Tierney — Another red-baiting chickenhawk. You'd think that modern conservatives would come up with a few new tricks. Captain Ed: The Washington Post report of the event has Tierney painting a pretty broad brush on this score, however, and starts out... |
Belle Waring: Just On The Other Side In the Washington Post today, humor: Tierney, of the Institute of World Politics, identified... |
648 Dead, 322 Hurt in Iraq Bridge Stampede By / AP — Permalink BAGHDAD, Iraq - At least 648 people were killed in a stampede on a bridge Wednesday when panic engulfed a Shiite religious procession amid rumors that a suicide bomber was about to attack, officials said. It appeared to be the single biggest loss of life in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion. | |
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Tom Maguire: Dridge has the My Way version. More broadly, Gregory Djerejian provides a long reading list to work through on Iraq, including this article from Francis Fukayama. |
Gateway Pundit: 640 Iraqis were killed when a railing gave way on a bridge over the Tigris River in Baghdad, today. |
Bush likens situation in Iraq to WWII By / San Francisco Chronicle — Permalink Naval Base Coronado, San Diego County — President Bush, in perhaps his starkest and most contentious depiction of the stakes in Iraq, characterized the war there as a battle over the fate of democracy, just like World War II, and suggested that the only alternative was a dangerous retreat that would embolden terrorists. | |
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Michael Bérubé: Then while I was driving down to DC yesterday afternoon, I caught Bush's speech in San Diego on C-Span radio—every second of it. |
Natasha @PacificViews: Also stampeding without let, the financial costs of this war, buried at the bottom of the article: [snipped quote] Bush... |
pain of 'cane By / NY Daily News — Permalink Early yesterday, Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer said that as reporters started to get into hurricane-devastated areas, "It could get even worse." He was right. | |
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Jim Romenesko: (Chicago Tribune) > Hours without sleep, covering storm takes a toll on reporters (NYDN) |
Brian Stelter: Katrina: "You Feel Bad" — "Early yesterday, Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer said that as reporters started to get into... |
Jude Wanniski Dies; Influential Supply-Sider By / WaPo — Permalink Jude Wanniski, 69, a contrarian editorialist and economic consultant who became an early champion of supply-side economics, died Aug. 29 at a hospital in Morristown, N.J., after an apparent heart attack. | |
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Tim Graham: In recounting the colorful life of Jude Wanniski, Washington Post writer Adam Bernstein claims Wanniski "wrote a... |
Tyler Cowen: Here is an obituary. |
Judith Miller and a Free Press (5 Letters) NYT — Permalink To the Editor: Re "Free Judy Miller" (editorial, Aug. 29): Democracy requires freedom of the press. Judith Miller was jailed, not for anything she wrote, but for something she knew but refused to divulge. | |
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Roger Ailes: The New York Times gets letters — from dopes: [snipped quote] I hate to break it to you, Ms. Williams, but the freedom... |
Jim Romenesko: Additional items for August 31, 2005 > NYT readers write about paper's "Free Judith Miller" editorial (NYT) > Send link... |
Reporters can't distance themselves By / USA Today — Permalink The question of whether journalists should become involved in the story they're covering becomes academic when disaster unfolds and they reach out to victims. "You try not to become part of the story, but you're a human being first, a journalist second," said ABC News vice president Paul Slavin. | |
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Jim Romenesko: News exec: "You try not to become part of the story, but..." USA Today The question of whether journalists should get... |
Brian Stelter: Katrina: Robin Roberts Sheds Tears — For some journalists, their emotional involvement in the story of Katrina's... |
Liberals drop public Sheehan role By / Washington Times — Permalink Powerful liberal advocacy groups such as MoveOn.org are taking a less active role in Cindy Sheehan's anti-war activities in the wake of criticism that they may have muddied her message. | |
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Paul @PowerLine: Bill Sammon in the Washington Times reports that "powerful liberal advocacy groups such as MoveOn.org are taking a less active role in Cindy Sheehan's anti-war activities." |
Betsy Newmark: Bill Sammon reports that liberal groups are scaling back their help for Cindy Sheehan because they fear that their presence is obscuring her message. |
Jude Wanniski, 1936-2005 By / TCS — Permalink Jude Wanniski, one of America's great contrarians and polemicists and the man who turned me — and thousands more — on to free-market economics, died suddenly Monday afternoon of a heart attack. He was 69. Wanniski was always cheerful, always provocative, always spoke his mind. | |
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James Joyner: James Glassman offers a tribute. "Wanniski was no shrinking violet. Roger Ailes: The Death of Reaganomics — On Schmuck Central Station, Jimmy "Astroturf" Glassman pens an appreciation of Jude Wanniski, who died of a heart attack on Monday. |
Dale Franks: James Glassman has a fine, honest obituary of the man. Ed Driscoll: Wanniski, Warts And All — James Glassman, Tech Central Station's publisher (and prior to that, The New Republic's), has... |
Hungry for Biotechnology By / Reason — Permalink The European Union and fellow traveling anti-biotech activists may well succeed in bottling up the next wave of genetically improved crops that aim directly at helping poor farmers in the developing world. How? | |
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Julian Sanchez: New at Reason — Ronald Bailey wants to know why the biotech-hostile EU doesn't want to soothe his growling tummy. |
Glenn Reynolds: RON BAILEY ON BIOTECHNOLOGY: "How Europe starves the world's poor." |
Ex-Counterterrorism Chief Cites Rise in Attacks By / WaPo — Permalink Richard A. Clarke, the former head of counterterrorism in the White House under presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, said yesterday that there were twice as many attacks outside Iraq in the three years after the 2001 attacks as in the three preceding years. | |
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Susie Madrak: Flypaper So! That Iraq strategy worked out well, didn't it? |
Steve Clemons: Richard Clarke on What Can be Done in Four Years — The Washington Post's Walter Pincus joined us yesterday for a lunch... |
Mayor Rules Out '06 Gubernatorial Bid By / LAT — Permalink SACRAMENTO — Antonio Villaraigosa arrived in his old Capitol stamping grounds this week as California Democrats' best asset — a handsome, popular mayor blessed with rapidly burgeoning national name recognition. | |
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Kevin Roderick: • Antonio Villaraigosa says he won't run for governor in a few months. This is where cynics sputter, "but he said that about running for mayor!" |
Taegan Goddard: Villaraigosa Rules Out Run Against Schwarzenegger — Democrats "are looking for someone to knock off" California Gov... |
Massive federal relief effort under way CNN — Permalink WASHINGTON (CNN) — Victims of Hurricane Katrina — some of whom escaped with only their lives — soon will get help from a massive federal relief effort led by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Pentagon. | |
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Steve Soto: I note that just this morning FEMA has announced that ice, water, and food is being trucked down to the area, an area... Glenn Reynolds: FEDERAL RELIEF EFFORTS, including a Naval flotilla and 125,000 National Guardsmen, are on the way to afflicted areas, reports CNN. |
Richard Gardner: Massive Federal Efforts Underway in Hurricane Afflicted Areas — Massive federal relief effort under way FEMA sends... Dan Darling: The feds are doing what they can, but we can help out too. Instapundit has a useful charity round-up. |
Storms Vary With Cycles, Experts Say By / NYT — Permalink Because hurricanes form over warm ocean water, it is easy to assume that the recent rise in their number and ferocity is because of global warming. But that is not the case, scientists say. Instead, the severity of hurricane seasons changes with cycles of temperatures of several decades in the Atlantic Ocean. | |
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Jeff Goldstein: Its real name is global warming"—a position that the New York Times, however reluctantly, was forced, in good conscience, to debunk. John Cole: Hurricanes and Global Warming This is interesting: Because hurricanes form over warm ocean water, it is easy to... Jan Haugland: Kenneth Chang in the NYT finds no support from hurricane experts for the doomsayers, and points out that hurricanes come in cycles. |
McQ: Science, in the form of one of the leading experts in hurricanes, says it's more simply a matter of natural cycles Steve M.: This short New York Times story is getting a lot of attention on the right: Because hurricanes form over warm ocean... TheAnchoress: Come on, people, even the freaking New York Times has admitted it's not true. Hugh also has links to churches in NO and Biloxi and Jewish organizations as well. |
| Also: Andrew Sullivan, Damian Penny, Glenn Reynolds | |
Storm Cleanup May Be Biggest In U.S. History WaPo — Permalink Charities and the federal government launched what aid agencies predicted could be the longest and costliest relief effort in U.S. history, as workers began arriving last night in states devastated by Hurricane Katrina, and as the U.S. military organized an intensive response by already stretched National Guard and active-duty forces. | |
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Orin Kerr: The damage from Katrina is just off the charts, and the relief efforts are going to take months and years and will require tremendous resources. |
Michelle Malkin: The Washington Post's Wednesday edition spotlights charity and military mobilization efforts... "The Air Force, Navy... |
Massive storm damage found in Alabama By / AP — Permalink MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Floodwaters that engulfed the Alabama coast receded Tuesday, laying bare the stark extent of misery brought by Hurricane Katrina: Cement slabs where homes once stood, a 100-foot shrimp boat smoldering on its side, people searching for swept-away keepsakes. | |
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Natasha @PacificViews: Mississippi's coast and its casinos have been flattened and thousands in Alabama are without utilities. |
Glenn Reynolds: NEW REPORTS FROM COASTAL ALABAMA look bad, too. |
Is Dell Dying? By / Slate — Permalink For 21 years, Dell has been the business media's most dearly beloved company. Since Michael Dell founded the company in his University of Texas dorm room in 1984, the company has been hugged and kissed and fondled by crush-struck business journalists (and analysts and investors). | |
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Scott Rosenberg: Dell and the megaphone — Over in Slate, Daniel Gross has this to say about blogger Jeff Jarvis's now-celebrated... Glenn Reynolds: SLATE WRITES ON DELL'S PROBLEMS, and Jeff Jarvis is mentioned. My experiences with Dell, I note, have been good. |
Ed Cone: Dell hell — Dell's problems. |
Katrina Leaves Behind a Stricken City By / LAT — Permalink NEW ORLEANS — The city that prided itself on letting the good times roll today found itself overwhelmed by the hardships caused by Hurricane Katrina. Failing levees and pumps allowed the surging waters to flood more than 80% of the city which, in the... | |
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Scott Sala: I expect prisoners to act like this, but not free citizens. SAINTS I recommend World Vision, as they helped immensely during the recent Asian tsunami disaster. |
Michelle Malkin: The LA Times on the prison riot and continued looting: "The fabric of civil order was frayed. |
Destroying FEMA By / WaPo — Permalink SEATTLE — In the days to come, as the nation and the people along the Gulf Coast work to cope with the disastrous aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we will be reminded anew, how important it is to have a federal agency capable of dealing with natural catastrophes of this sort. | |
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Laura Rozen: Update: I guess Bush tried to kill FEMA and didn't quite get around to replacing it with anything else. Kevin Drum: UPDATE: More here from Eric Holdeman in the Washington Post: "The advent of the Bush administration in January 2001 signaled the beginning of the end for FEMA. Cookie Jill: when reporters interview katrina victims perhaps they should mention that this administration is destroying the very government agency people on the gulf are clamouring for. |
Josh Marshall: But there are just too many examples out there of the ways in which his policies have contributed to and accentuated... Kevin Edit This: Filed under: Politics, Legal Issues, Church & State, Religion No comment yet, add yours? » A Government Small... Avedon Carol: Cindy Sheehan is not amused. Even the conservative Washington Post has an article on the madness of Destroying FEMA. |
| Also: Mary @PacificViews, Oliver Willis | |
Katrina Conceit NRO — Permalink Global warming and Mother Nature. If cable TV had existed in 1886, everyone in the U.S. might have been whipped into a hurricane panic. A record seven hurricanes made landfall that year, including a Category 4 storm that hit Texas and would have had on-the-spot cable newscasters dramatically fighting the wind to deliver their reports. | |
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Jeff Goldstein: Simultaneous to TalkLeft's politics of perfect hindsight, worldwide progressives immediately began beating the Kyoto... Jan Haugland: Rich Lowry gives us the historical perspective on hurricanes: If cable TV had existed in 1886, everyone in the U.S. might have been whipped into a hurricane panic. TheAnchoress: Don Singleton is linking to Rich Lowry's excellent debunking of the Katrina-is-from-global-wa rming theme. |
McQ: Not enough for you? Well consider this then. Captain Ed: Besides, as Rich Lowry points out in NRO, hurricanes didn't spring into being during the era of big tailfins and... Betsy Newmark: Rich Lowry takes on the accusation that global warming is increasing the ferocity of hurricanes. |
| Also: Jonathan H. Adler, Rich Lowry | |
New Orleans Filling With Floodwaters Due to Breached Levee WaPo — Permalink NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 30 — Hurricane Katrina and its rains have passed, but this city is filling with flood waters. The sense of relief that residents felt Monday morning when the city was not immediately inundated by a storm surge overflowing its protective... | |
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John Hawkins: Daily News For August 31, 2005 — Hurricane Katrina "Hundreds Feared Dead On Storm-Ravaged U.S. Coast" "New Orleans... Steve Bainbridge: What happened in New Orleans (and the rest of the Gulf coast) was never anything for somebody sitting in safety hundreds of miles away to joke about, let alone so lamely. Justin Gardner: From Reuters: [snipped quote] And as if the storm was dangerous enough… [snipped quote] Some more stories about the devastation can be found here and here. |
Steve Soto: New Orleans Now Heading For Catastrophe — Despite the initial "New Orleans seems to have been spared" bulls**t from the... James Joyner: Other coverage: New Orleans Filling With Floodwaters Due to Breached Levee (WaPo) When can I go home? Acidman: A broken levee is threatening to flood the city. This is a terrible story, especially when you consider how some residents reacted. |
| Also: Kevin Drum, Glenn Reynolds, Laura Rozen, Lambert @Corrente | |
Slight Majority Say Bush Should Meet With Sheehan By / WaPo — Permalink Slightly more than half of the country says President Bush should meet with Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed last year in Iraq, who is leading a protest against the war outside Bush's ranch in Crawford, Tex., according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. | |
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Matthew Yglesias: Trouble Ahead — There's a whole mess of bad ratings for the president in the latest Washington Post poll, but also... John @PowerLine: The Washington Post is trumpeting its latest poll, showing President Bush's approval rating at an "all-time low" of 45%. Avedon Carol: OK, they're polling people about whether Bush should meet with Cindy Sheehan, and a majority say yes, but they're not... |
T. A. Frank: POLL FAULT: A striking question from the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll: "Do you think Democrats in Congress have... DC Media Girl: More WaPo: Rising gas prices and ongoing bloodshed in Iraq continue to take their toll on President Bush, whose standing... Kevin Drum: OPPOSING THE WAR....Via the Carpetbagger, here's an interesting poll graphic from the Washington Post. |
| Also: Andrew Sullivan, Steve Soto, Zoe Kentucky, RJ Eskow, Chris Bowers, Taegan Goddard | |
Poll: Bush Approval at a Career Low By / ABCNEWS — Permalink Aug. 30, 2005 — George W. Bush's job approval rating slipped to a career low 45 percent in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, damaged both by discontent with the war in Iraq and broad unhappiness with the price of gasoline at home. | |
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Skippy: latest poll shows 0% of polling organizations ask about impeachment bob fertik of democrats.com sends a letter to the... Kevin Edit This: He offers an interesting case study in right-wing hate-mongering, however. (more…) Filed under: General,... Chris Bowers: Also of interest, the country seems to be placing at least part of the blame for the war on Democrats in Congress who... |
Ari Melber: And he knows Americans overwhelmingly disapprove of Bush's performance on it â" it's his second most unpopular issue in the new ABC/Washington Post Poll. Joe Gandelman: Bush's Polling Numbers Hit " Career Low" — Even though partisans point to methodology flaws, question bias, etc. it's... Justin Gardner: Bush And Gas Don't Mix — A new poll by ABC News shows that people are pissed about gas prices: [snipped quote] What are your thoughts? |
| Also: Lambert @Corrente | |
Poverty Rate Rises to 12.7 Percent By / AP — Permalink The nation's poverty rate rose to 12.7 percent of the population last year, the fourth consecutive annual increase, the Census Bureau said Tuesday. The percentage of people without health insurance did not change. | |
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Randall Parker: Poverty Rises: Its The Immigration Stupid — The poverty rate in the United States has risen for the 4th year in a row! Avedon Carol: I never find it particularly surprising to hear of poverty rates rising during a Republican administration. Cernig: Oh, and the poverty rate here in the US has risen again for the fourth consecutive year. That George is sure good for us po'folks ain't he? |
Justin Gardner: From the AP: [snipped quote] 800,000 more people without health care? When will this end? Jayson @PoliPundit: It's Back — The poverty meme. Ah, yeah, that annual rite of passage - when Republicans occupy the White House, that is. Dwight Meredith: The Washington Post reports: "The nation's poverty rate rose to 12.7 percent of the population last year, the fourth... |
| Also: Matthew Yglesias, Michael Stickings, Kevin Drum, Susie Madrak, Steve Soto, Judd @ThinkProgress | |
Katrina Should be A Lesson To US on Global Warming By / DER SPIEGEL — Permalink Seems like everything is President Bush's fault. One day after Katrina hammered the Gulf Coast, German commentators are laying into the US for its stubborn attitude to global warming and Kyoto. Hurricane Katrina is big news for German commentators, whatever their ilk. | |
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McQ: A couple of good examples come from Germany: "The toughest commentary of the day comes from Germany's Environmental... Captain Ed: As many of the blogosphere have already pointed out, German environmental minister Juergen Tritten blamed George Bush... |
Jan Haugland: Der Spiegel reports that a number of German newspapers are gleefully blaming the hurricane's destruction on President Bush's environmental policies. Andrew Sullivan: USING KATRINA: Some Germans start lecturing the U.S. about global warming. As if any serious expert believes this is in any way connected. |
New Orleans levee breaks CNN — Permalink NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) — As the death toll from Hurricane Katrina reached at least 54, a levee holding back the waters of Lake Pontchartrain sustained a breach two blocks long overnight in the Lakefront area of New Orleans. | |
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Ace: It's Awful: More Video... At CNN, of the damage, and the looters. Michelle Malkin: According to CNN, officials are urging evacuees to stay away for at least a week. Mary Madigan: Hurricane Katrina by Mary Madigan neworleansangel There may be more than 55 dead in Mississippi. |
Justin Gardner: However, a major levee broke in New Orleans and has flooded over 80% of the city, putting those areas under 20 feet of water. Patrick: CNN says it happened "overnight". An AP report quoted in the New York Times says it "gave way Monday afternoon." Joe Gandelman: Biloxi, Mississippi was hard hit and a levee broke in New Orleans, reports CNN: "In Biloxi, a 25-foot storm surge... |
| Also: Jack Cluth, John Hawkins, Riggsveda @Corrente, DC Media Girl, James Joyner, Bill Hobbs, Norbizness, Lambert @Corrente, Ann Althouse, Nick Danger, Orin Kerr, Glenn Reynolds | |
Hundreds feared dead on storm-ravaged U.S. coast By / Reuters — Permalink NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Helicopters plucked frantic survivors from rooftops, debris-fouled water flooded historic New Orleans and hundreds were feared dead on Tuesday after Hurricane Katrina's rampage across the U.S. Gulf Coast. | |
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Michelle Malkin: KATRINA: DEATH TOLL RISES — Reuters is reporting that hundreds are feared dead in Biloxi, Miss. Cadaver dogs are being brought in to locate the corpses. Rex Hammock: "I fear it's potentially like Pompeii.'' (AP) In Mississippi's Hancock County, emergency workers went from house to house and put black paint on those where people died, CNN said. |
Alcibiades @KesherTalk: Hundreds may be dead in Biloxi, Mississippi, which didn't get the same evacuation warning time as inhabitants of New Orleans, after a 30 foot storm surge came ashore. |
Water Continues to Rise in New Orleans By / AP — Permalink GULFPORT, Miss. - Rescuers in boats and helicopters struggled to reach hundreds of wet and bedraggled victims of Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast on Tuesday, while New Orleans slipped deeper into crisis as water began rising in the streets because of a levee break. | |
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Scared Monkeys: From the AP, Crews Pass Dead to Reach Storm Survivors "New Orleans: Rescuers along the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast... Justin Gardner: Do your part. Now, on to the news… Unfortunately, there seems to be no end to Hurricane Katrina's wrath. |
Michelle Malkin: "We're not even dealing with dead bodies," Mayor Ray Nagin said. "They're just pushing them on the side." Gateway Pundit: Crews Pass Dead to Reach Storm Survivors A. M. Mora y Leon reflects on the tragedy. |
Looting Takes Place in View of La. Police By / AP — Permalink NEW ORLEANS — With much of the city flooded by Hurricane Katrina, looters floated garbage cans filled with clothing and jewelry down the street in a dash to grab what they could. In some cases, looting on Tuesday took place in full view of police and National Guard troops. | |
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Baldilocks: Go Coast Guard and be safe! Survivors_rescued_gi34 UPDATE: Sigh. This was inevitable. Michael Stickings: Looting in Louisiana — As New Orleans is returned to something of a state of nature — where life is nasty, brutish,... |
Michelle Malkin: Looting in New Orleans is taking place in view of the police and National Guard troops, AP reports Justin Gardner: Looting In Katrina's Wake — In situations like this, looting is inevitable and heartbreaking. |
New Orleans mayor: 'Significant' number of deaths CNN — Permalink NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) — New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin warned of a "significant" death toll as the exact scope of Hurricane Katrina's wrath remained unknown in the Crescent City. "The city of New Orleans is in a state of devastation," Nagin told WWL TV on Monday night. | |
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Kieran Healy: I hope this sort of thing doesn't become widespread: The city had no power, no drinking water, dwindling food supplies,... James Joyner: Relief efforts under way for those stranded by storm (CNN) New Orleans a city of rising water - Flooding traps residents... Mary @LeftCoaster: New Orleans Situation Worsening — The relief felt yesterday that New Orleans was spared the worse has given way to the recognition that the danger is far from over. |
Riggsveda @Corrente: The levee protecting it burst open across a 2-block length, under the strain of the floodwaters in Lake Ponchartrain, and now 80% of New Orleans is underwater. Bill Hobbs: Reports here, here, here, and here. And here's the PDF of the cover of today's New Orleans Times Picayune. Smash: Katrina — NEW ORLEANS is underwater. UPDATE: Bush is to blame, apparently. |
Rape Charge Follows Marriage to a 14-Year-Old By / NYT — Permalink FALLS CITY, Neb. , Aug. 29 - On Sunday evening, Matthew Koso tipped three ounces of formula into his 5-day-old daughter's mouth, then hoisted her atop his shoulder in hope of a burp. On Tuesday morning, he is scheduled to be arraigned on charges for which the newborn is the state's prime piece of evidence. | |
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Michael Froomkin: The New York Times ran a story yesterday about a statutory rape charge being filed in Nebraska against one Matthew Koso,... Stephen Elliott: Stephen Elliott: Calling Them Children, Trying Them As Adults — Jon Bruning, the Attorney General of Nebraska said yesterday Ann Althouse: So says a 22-year-old man who married the 14-year-old girl he impregnated. He's being prosecuted for statutory rape. |
Will Baude: The Massachusetts of the Midwest — Multiple readers have sent along a link to this story about a 22-year-old man and a 14-year-old girl who have married and had a child. Steve M.: From today's New York Times, we learn that the people of Kansas — you know, those people who, unlike us, have values —... Michael Stickings: A cornhusker saga As reported in the Times, this is a fascinating human-interest story from Nebraska, where a 22-year... |
| Also: Jacob Sullum | |
CATASTROPHIC By / New Orleans Times-Picayune — Permalink A large section of the vital 17th Street Canal levee, where it connects to the brand new .hurricane proof. Old Hammond Highway bridge, gave way late Monday morning in Bucktown after Katrina's fiercest winds were well north. | |
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Michelle Malkin: The Times-Picayune provides further details: "A large section of the vital 17th Street Canal levee, where it connects to the brand new .hurricane proof. Justin Gardner: Here's still more from the local paper in New Orleans: "As night fell on a devastated region, the water was still rising... Joe Gandelman: "This is our tsunami," Biloxi Mayor A.J. Holloway told the Biloxi Sun Herald newspaper, referring to the December 26,... |
Patrick: we may have breathed a sigh of relief for NO too soon: A large section of the vital 17th Street Canal levee, where... Mary Madigan: New Orleans survived the immediate effects of the hurricane, but the city is now being flooded by a levee breach: ... Will Collier: With one of the major levees failing this morning, several parishes under water (few of which could be reached by people... |
| Also: James Joyner, Cookie Jill | |
Rescuers Search for Survivors as Higher Death Tolls Are Feared By / NYT — Permalink NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 30 - With parts of this city under 20 feet of water and a death toll in the region that is reported at 55 and certain to climb, the Gulf Coast began today to confront the aftermath of one of the most devastating storms ever to hit the United States. | |
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Scared Monkeys: Canal St LA" NYT: Rescuers Search for Survivors as Higher Death Tolls Are Feared "NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 30 - The waters of... Gary Farber: This is far worse, alas. [snipped quote] This is just awful. Read The Rest Scale: I'm sure you know. |
Justin Gardner: And even more news about Hurricane Katrina from the NY Times. Ogged @Unfogged: Katrina — Katrina's last-minute swerve seems to have offered only false hope: levees have been breached and New Orleans is flooding. |
U.S. Warplanes Back Unprecedented Sunni-Led Offensive WaPo — Permalink RAMADI, Iraq, Aug. 30 — U.S. warplanes bombed alleged safe houses of Abu Musab Zarqawi's fighters near the Syrian border Tuesday in one of the strongest uses of air power in months, backing what leaders of one Sunni Arab tribe described as an unprecedented tribal push to drive out Zarqawi's forces. | |
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Steve Soto: Iraq: The White House, after saying that the constitution was fine Sunday night, now wants it changed again to bring the... Donald Sensing: Andthis development strikes me as good news: [snipped quote] This action is the latest but biggest of a series of attacks... |
Montag: Washington Post: U.S. Warplanes Target Alleged Rebel Havens Along Iraq-Syria Border Jeff Goldstein: From the Washington Post: [snipped quote] Will the constitution pass muster in October? |
CAFE Society By / American Prospect — Permalink A funny thing happened on August 24: I was watching an Orwellian view-screen, which runs short news items and advertisements, in an elevator in the Prospect building on L Street NW, and it said that the Bush administration was tightening fuel-efficiency standards for SUVs. | |
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Ben Adler: SICK TRANSIT: In a web article for The American Prospect that went up yesterday, Matt Yglesias makes a sensible point... Kevin Drum: It's true, he says, that part of CAFE's problem is that it largely exempts SUVs from its rules, but there's a broader... |
Ezra Klein: Three Objections — Matt's got a TAP column today laying out his objections to CAFE standards. |
At Public Hearing Today, ACLU to Argue for Release of Photographs and Videos Depicting Detainee Abuse ACLU — Permalink NEW YORK - The American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union will again appear before a federal judge Tuesday, August 30, to seek the release of Defense Department photographs and videotapes depicting the abuse of prisoners held by the United States at Abu Ghraib. | |
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Justin Gardner: Keep in mind, the following is from a press release from the ACLU, so it's definitely coming from a certain point of view. Arthur Silber: Given this ongoing denial and avoidance of responsibility, the only possibility for correcting these tragic and... |
Avedon Carol: The ACLU is still trying to get those Abu Graib pictures released. Jeralyn Merritt: ACLU Hearing 3pm ET Over Abu Ghraib Photos — The ACLU reports: [snipped quote] Released documents are available here. |
Governor: Evacuate New Orleans AP — Permalink NEW ORLEANS — Rescuers along the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast pushed aside the dead to reach the living Tuesday in a race against time and rising waters, while New Orleans (search) sank deeper into crisis and Louisiana's governor ordered storm refugees out of this drowning city. | |
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Baldilocks: (Thanks to Hugh Hewitt) New Orleans must be totally evacuated. Forkum: Katrina's Wake — From FoxNews: Governor: Evacuate New Orleans. |
Michael J. Totten: The governor just ordered everyone - including those in the Superdome - to evacuate... |
Just one question for opponents of the war By / Townhall.com — Permalink All those who support the American war in Iraq should make a deal with anyone opposed to the war. Offer to answer any 20 questions the opponents wish to ask if they will answer just one: Do you believe we are fighting evil people in Iraq? | |
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Jesse Taylor: A note to Dennis Prager: don't feed me this s**t. You don't think there's a f**king right to be anti-war. |
Betsy Newmark: Dennis Prager has one question for opponents of the War in Iraq. "All those who support the American war in Iraq should make a deal with anyone opposed to the war. |
Teaching Science NRO — Permalink The president is wrong on Intelligent Design. Catching up on back news this past few days — I was out of the country for the first two weeks of August — I caught President Bush's endorsement of teaching Intelligent Design in public school science classes. | |
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Andrew Sullivan: Religion is quite a different thing." - John Derbyshire, talking sense, at NRO. Steve @BeggingToDiffer: UNINTELLIGENCE — John Derbyshire gets it right on Intellgent Design. |
Patrick Carver: ID vs. Darwinism: Dr. Jonathan Witt has a short, but sweet response to a point made in John Derbyshire's harangue against teaching intelligent design. |
Major's Frustration By / Opinion Journal — Permalink Maj. Joe Leahy is a civil engineer with the U.S. Army's Engineer Brigade. He has been stationed at Camp Victory, outside of Baghdad, since November 2004—enough time to get frustrated. "We all know it's a dangerous place," he says. | |
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Cori Dauber: Good News Round-up Iraq — Time for Another Edition, and it really is increasingly difficult to read these one after... Jeff Goldstein: This, it seems to me, is precisely correct: much of what the US public gets from the MSM is a series of nodal points... Justin Gardner: From the Opinion Journal: [snipped quote] Lots, lots, lots more when you jump over to the story. It's well worth the time. |
Arthur Chrenkoff: Good news from Iraq, part 34 — Note: Also available at "The Opinion Journal" and Winds of Change. Cernig: Meanwhile, Chrenkoff thinks its good news that Sunnis are lining up to register so they can vote the current... TheAnchoress: Pages and pages of good news from Iraq Pages and Pages of it, from Chrenkoff. |
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Bolton's mischief LAT — Permalink AFTER A YEAR AND A HALF of studies and negotiations, the United Nations recently came up with a draft proposal calling for extensive internal reforms and world action against injustice, poverty and environmental catastrophe. Now that's getting things done. | |
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Suzanne Nossel: Bolton - early returns — John_bolton The early signs on John Bolton's behavior at the UN are none too encouraging. Nathan Newman: As this LA Times editorial lays out: [snipped quote] History will no doubt remember Iraq as Bush's largest debacle, but... Kathryn Jean Lopez: "BOLTON'S MISCHIEF" — That's the LATimes today, and they're not talking about Michael. A.K.A. Just what the doctor ordered. |
McQ: Well it appears that John Bolton's efforts on behalf of the US as its ambassador to the UN don't meet with the approval... Laura Rozen: The LAT on Bolton at the UN: "Bolton's amendments have been received like a wasp's nest at a picnic. |
1,600 soldiers activated to aid cleanup, deter looting By / Clarion-Ledger — Permalink More than 1,600 Mississippi National Guard soldiers have been activated to assist with emergency operations — and more could be activated once Hurricane Katrina's fury has passed. | |
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Michelle Malkin: More than, 1,600 Mississippi Natonal Guardsmen have been called up to help with cleanup efforts and to deter looting. |
Trevino @RedState: That's just the numbers available: of those activated, we see that it comes to 3,500 in Louisiana, 1,600 in Mississippi, and 750 in Alabama. |
Katrina leaves millions without power in U.S. Gulf Reuters — Permalink FPL Group Inc. said in a release it expects to restore full service by Friday night. Entergy's subsidiaries own and operate about 30,000 MW of generating capacity, market energy commodities, and transmit and distribute power to 2.6 million customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. | |
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Michelle Malkin: Yes, looting. *** More than 2.3 million are without power. Restoration efforts could take weeks. |
Norbizness: In addition, there are 2.3 million people without power, there could be up to 80 people dead in Gulfport/Biloxi alone,... |
Bush Returning to Monitor Relief Effort AP — Permalink CORONADO, Calif. (AP) — President Bush will cut short his vacation to return to Washington on Wednesday, two days earlier than planned, to help monitor federal efforts to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina, the White House said Tuesday. | |
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Stirling Newberry: As Bush makes a big noise about leaving palm trees and lots of sun. going back to "monitor" events in the White House -... |
Laura Rozen: Terrifying. Bush is even cutting short his vacation to monitor relief efforts. |