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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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Arianna Huffington / huffingtonpost.com:
The Judy File: Is Miller Getting Ready to Sing? — This just in: Judy Miller's principled, absolute stand is crumbling. — Buried in the middle of this afternoon's Reuters story on Miller, her lawyer, Floyd Abrams, offers up a bombshell: Miller is looking for an out.
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Greg Gutfeld / huffingtonpost.com:
HUFFPO EMERGENCY BUSH BASH BLOG APPLICATION FOR THE VICTIMS OF ALL DISASTERS EVERYWHERE! — HELLO EVERYONE!!! — Do you often find yourself fantasizing about becoming a Huffpo blogger? Do you love to read other blogs, digest their info, and then expel pre-chewed nut-bag assumptions into a concerned and earnest post?
frc.org:
F-Troop — There was a television show in the 1960's called F-Troop about an incompetent band of post-Civil War troops stationed at Fort Courage, somewhere west of the Missouri. Having been forced to deal with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other government bureaus these last few days …
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Associated Press:
Berger to Pay $50,000 Fine for Taking Papers — WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge on Thursday ordered Sandy Berger, President Clinton's national security adviser, to pay a $50,000 fine for illegally taking classified documents from the National Archives. — The punishment handed …
rawstory.com:
Cheney told to 'go f**k yourself' in Gulfport, Mississippi — RAW STORY — Vice President Dick Cheney, in Gulfport, Mississippi on a tour of the Katrina hurricane zone, was told to "go f**k yourself" twice on live television, RAW STORY has learned. — During a discussion …
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Drudge Report:
CNNUSATODAYGALLUP POLL: ONLY 13% BLAME BUSH? — A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll of 609 adults taken September 5-6 shows: — Blame Game — 13% said George W. Bush is "most responsible for the problems in New Orleans after the hurricane"; 18% said "federal agencies"; 25% said "state and local officials" …
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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 …
CBS News:
CBS Poll: Blame All Around — (CBS) Americans think the response to Hurricane Katrina was inadequate, and spread the blame around all levels of government. President George W. Bush finds disapproval on his handling of the matter, too — and the public now shows diminished confidence …
CNN:
LIVE FROM... Disaster Relief Continues Along the Gulf Coast; Nancy Pelosi Internview — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. — KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Checking charities, now. How can you be sure that your donations to hurricane victims are really helping?
Paul Campos / The New Republic:
Legal Brief — By now, the basic contours of Mike Brown's ascendancy to director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have come to light. Journalists have uncovered that Brown had almost no relevant experience for the position and got hired by FEMA because he was a longtime friend …
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Alex Tabarrok / Marginal Revolution:
Housing the Poorest Hurricane Victims — Ed Olsen at the University of Virginia, one of the country's leading researchers on housing, sent me the following proposal to immediately expand HUD's Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program. It's a brilliant proposal that needs attention at the highest levels of government.
Pew Research Center:
Summary of Findings — The American public is highly critical of President Bush's handling of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Two-in-three Americans (67%) believe he could have done more to speed up relief efforts, while just 28% think he did all he could to get them going quickly.
John Berlau / National Review:
Greens vs. Levees — With all that has happened in the state, it's understandable that the Louisiana chapter of the Sierra Club may not have updated its website. But when its members get around to it, they may want to change the wording of one item in particular.
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Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
Demanding Answers — In the wake of a mortifyingly slow government response to the Gulf Coast disaster, the press is demanding answers from the White House with unprecedented vigor. — President Bush and his aides are refusing to provide them — saying this is no time to play the "blame game."
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Bobby Jindal / Opinion Journal:
Deadly Bureaucracy — In Katrina's wake, red tape too often trumped common sense. — BATON ROUGE, La.—Over the past few days, America has been both moved and disturbed by television footage of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath. But for those of us in Louisiana still struggling to cope …