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Time:
How Reliable Is Brown's Resume?  —  A TIME investigation reveals discrepancies in the FEMA chief's official biographies … When President Bush nominated Michael Brown to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in 2003, Brown's boss at the time, Joe Allbaugh, declared …
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Leaders Lacking Disaster Experience  —  Five of eight top Federal Emergency Management Agency officials came to their posts with virtually no experience in handling disasters and now lead an agency whose ranks of seasoned crisis managers have thinned dramatically since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
ABCNEWS:
FEMA Director to Be Out Soon, Sources Say  —  Under Scrutiny, Mike Brown to Leave Post  —  Sept. 9, 2005 — Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown, under criticism due to his management of Hurricane Katrina as well as reported discrepancies on his resume …
New York Times:
Political Issues Snarled Plans for Troop Aid  —  WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 - As New Orleans descended into chaos last week and Louisiana's governor asked for 40,000 soldiers, President Bush's senior advisers debated whether the president should speed the arrival of active-duty troops by seizing control …
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Daniel Henninger / Opinion Journal:
Who Calls the Cavalry?  —  The Pentagon was prepared for Hurricane Katrina.
Discussion: Rantingprofs
Andrew / www.AndrewSullivan.com:   THE BREAKDOWN:  —  The story from the administration is changing.
Paula Reed Ward / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Flight 93 marker design picked  —  Maple trees, wind chimes honor those who died  —  WASHINGTON — It will serve as a living tribute.  With each wind, each breeze, a set of chimes housed in a 93-foot tower will create a different song in memory of the 40 people who sacrificed their lives trying to save the lives of others.
Discussion: RealClearPolitics and Donklephant
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Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:
Tight Constraints on Pentagon's Freedom Walk  —  Event Remembering 9/11, Troops to Be Kept 'Sterile,' Limited to Preregistered  —  Organizers of the Pentagon's 9/11 memorial Freedom Walk on Sunday are taking extraordinary measures to control participation in the march and concert …
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Where to Point the Fingers  —  In less enlightened times there was no catastrophe independent of human agency.  When the plague or some other natural disaster struck, witches were burned, Jews were massacred and all felt better (except the witches and Jews).
Juliette Kayyem / tpmcafe.com:
America Abroad  —  42 Minutes of Shame  —  All of this time about where FEMA should be, whether it should or shouldn't be part of the Department of Homeland Security or an independent agency.  Well, I just finished reading the confirmation hearings for Mike Brown's appointment to be Deputy Director of FEMA …
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Byron York / The Corner on National Review Online:
MICHAEL BROWN, CONFIRMED BY DEMOCRATS
Discussion: TAPPED
Will Lester / Associated Press:
In Poll, Most Say Abandon Flooded Areas  —  WASHINGTON - More than half the people in this country say the flooded areas of New Orleans lying below sea level should be abandoned and rebuilt on higher ground.  —  An AP-Ipsos poll found that 54 percent of Americans want the vast sections …
Discussion: Daly Thoughts
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
The Party of Performance  —  In the aftermath of Katrina, there's an opening for a different kind of politics in America.  The new politics isn't about values; it isn't about settling scores.  It's about performance.  It's about putting a wounded, shaken country back on its feet …
Opinion Journal:
Oil for Food as Usual  —  The U.N.'s worst critics couldn't invent what the Volcker report shows.  —  "The scandal, quote, unquote, is, in my view, nonsense."  Thus did Denis Halliday, a former United Nations Assistant Secretary General, opine in November 2004 on the U.N.'s Oil for Food program.
Discussion: Power Line and Betsy's Page
Reuters:
Bush lifts wage rules for Katrina  —  President signs executive order allowing contractors to pay below prevailing wage in affected areas.  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush issued an executive order Thursday allowing federal contractors rebuilding in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to pay below the prevailing wage.
Thomas Lipscomb / Tech Central Station:
The Machine Stops  —  As Lake Ponchatrain's waters began to drown his city, New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin had the colossal nerve to shout indignantly "Get off your asses, and let's do something" — and then continued doing nothing himself, but add to the deluge by bursting into tears.
Steve Fainaru / Washington Post:
For a U.S. Platoon in Iraq, Merciless Missions  —  Days Are Spent Pursuing Enemy, Fending Off Death  —  BALAD, Iraq — On an asphalt road surrounded by apple trees and date palms, a bomb went off beneath an armored Humvee leading a midnight patrol.  The towering fireball, followed by an explosion …
Discussion: Rantingprofs and Mudville Gazette

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Jonah Goldberg / The Corner on National Review Online:
THE PELOSI DISAPPOINTMENT  —  I feel a bit sorry for liberals …
Discussion: TAPPED and Ezra Klein
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Padilla's detention upheld
Discussion: Balkinization
Mark Helprin / Opinion Journal:
'They Are All So Wrong'
Los Angeles Times:
A Barrier That Could Have Been  —  Congress OKd a project …
Jack Shafer / slate.com:
Don't Refloat  —  The case against rebuilding the sunken city of New Orleans.
Daily Kos:
Thank God It's Friday...
Chris Bertram / Crooked Timber:
Education, education, education?  —  Maria's post about America got …
Discussion: The American Scene
George W. Bush / White House:
Proclamation by the President: National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for the Victims of Hurricane Katrina
Los Angeles Times:
Bush Pledges Aid for 'Long Haul'

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Times-Picayune Breaking News Weblog:
Three FEMA contractors arrested for looting in Plaquemines Parish
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Kevin / Louisiana Libertarian:
Katrina thoughts
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Partisan Rancor Accompanies Passage of Disaster Aid Bill
Richard W. Stevenson / New York Times:
Leader Who Rose in 9/11 Slips in Wake of Storm
White House:
Press Briefing by Scott McClellan
Michael Grunwald / Washington Post:
Money Flowed to Questionable Projects
Mick Fealty / Slugger O'Toole:
Ill wind may not blow to the Whitehouse
Discussion: Hugh Hewitt
Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:
Democrats' anti-Bush petition also seeks political contributions
Arianna Huffington / huffingtonpost.com:
The Judy File: Is Miller Getting Ready to Sing?
 
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