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Associated Press:
New Orleans Relives Flooding Nightmare  —  NEW ORLEANS - Hurricane Rita's steady rains sent water pouring through breaches in a patched levee Friday, cascading into one of the city's lowest-lying neighborhoods in a devastating repeat of New Orleans' flooding nightmare.
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CNN:
Water flows over New Orleans levee  —  Flooding in already hard-hit Lower 9th Ward  —  NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) — As Hurricane Rita headed for Texas, water surged through a damaged levee protecting New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward.  —  A CNN photojournalist reported that the water …
Discussion: The Reaction
CNN:
Evacuee bus explodes as Rita closes in
Discussion: Hit and Run and PoliBlog
Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:
Antiwar Rally Will Be a First for Many  —  Focused Message Draws Protesters of All Stripes  —  The seasoned protesters who organized tomorrow's antiwar demonstration are well-versed in many other causes.  They have marched and rallied against police brutality, racism …
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
SPINNING THE PROTESTS: I recommend that readers google the names of people mentioned in the press accounts of this weekend's antiwar protests.  I looked up Brian Becker, who's mentioned in this Washington Post story by Petula Dvorak.  To be fair, Dvorak at least mentions the ANSWER connection …
Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
SPIN TO WIN  —  These comments from Saddam-era Iraqi army "strongman" Colonel Watban Jassam should be displayed above the masthead of any American newspaper and noted at the outset of any broadcast news program.  They aren't, so we'll take every opportunity we can to repeat them here:
Chicago Tribune:
Offer of buses fell between the cracks  —  WASHINGTON — Two days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, as images of devastation along the Gulf Coast and despair in New Orleans flickered across television screens, the head of one of the nation's largest bus associations repeatedly called federal disaster officials to offer help.
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MSNBC:
Bus carrying elderly evacuees burns; 24 dead  —  Fire engulfs vehicle carrying elderly from Houston area nursing home  —  An emergency crew confers near the charred skeleton of a bus that caught fire and exploded early Friday on northbound Interstate 45 near Dallas.  —  VIDEO  —  • Evacuee tragedy
Sheila Flynn / Associated Press:
Fire on Bus Carrying Evacuees Kills 24
Ed Campbell / freenewmexican.com:
Lannan speaker delayed in Canada  —  U.S. immigration officials refused Tuesday to allow Robert Fisk, longtime Middle East correspondent for the London newspaper, The Independent, to board a plane from Toronto to Denver.  Fisk was on his way to Santa Fe for a sold-out appearance …
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Doug Ireland / DIRELAND:   U.S. BARS ROBERT FISK FROM ENTERING COUNTRY
Houston Chronicle:
For motorists, all roads lead to frustration  —  Thousands of furious evacuees sweltering for hours on traffic-choked freeways Thursday put a stain on what had been a generally successful response by state and local governments faced with back-to-back weather emergencies in Texas.
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Washington Post:
Housing the Displaced Is Rife With Delays  —  Nearly four weeks after Hurricane Katrina displaced more Americans from their homes than any event in at least 60 years, efforts to find housing for 200,000 families from the devastated Gulf Coast are getting bogged down, according to federal, state and private sector officials.
khou.com:
Police: Looters arrested in The Heights  —  HOUSTON — When Houston-area residents heeded warnings to flee Hurricane Rita, they left behind nearly abandoned neighborhoods and stores.  —  And a potential playground for thieves.  —  By Friday morning at least three people had been arrested on charges of looting.
Meghan Clyne / New York Sun:
President Bush Is 'Our Bull Connor,' Harlem's Rep. Charles Rangel Claims  —  WASHINGTON - Comparing President Bush to the Birmingham, Ala., police commissioner whose resistance to the civil rights movement became synonymous with Southern racism, Rep. Charles Rangel said yesterday of the president: "George Bush is our Bull Connor."
Discussion: Blogs for Bush and Sister Toldjah
Jonathan M. Katz / Associated Press:
Frist's HCA Stock Sale Being Investigated  —  WASHINGTON - The Securities and Exchange Commission and federal prosecutors are investigating Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's sale of stock in HCA Inc., the hospital operating company founded by his family.  —  In a statement released Friday …
Gerard Baker / Times of London:
Vote Republican for free lap dancing  —  Suddenly the party known for fiscal prudence is throwing money about with abandon  —  MANY PEOPLE think conservatives, especially the American kind, are a mean-spirited, selfish bunch of misanthropists, irredeemably opposed to public spending on anything other than tanks and prisons.
nraila.org:
Major Victory For Firearms Owners And Freedom In Louisiana  —  (Fairfax, VA) — The United States District Court for the Eastern District in Louisiana today sided with the National Rifle Association (NRA) and issued a restraining order to bar further gun confiscations from peaceable …
Discussion: Clayton Cramer's BLOG

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