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Evan Thomas / Newsweek:
How Bush Blew It — Bureaucratic timidity. Bad phone lines. And a failure of imagination. Why the government was so slow to respond to catastrophe. — Sept. 19, 2005 issue - It's a standing joke among the president's top aides: who gets to deliver the bad news?
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Mike Allen / Time:
Living Too Much in the Bubble? — A bungled initial response to Katrina exposed the perils of a rigid, insular White House. Inside Bush's plan to show he isn't isolated — President bush was seated in the white house situation Room, watching military and disaster officials beaming …
Romeocat / CatHouse Chat:
Four years ago - never forget — Four years ago... September 11, 2001. What were you doing? What was I doing? What happened that day? — I had just dropped the Darling Munchkin off for school. She was just starting First Grade, and really liked her new teacher, Mrs. Stelman.
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M.E. Sprengelmeyer / Rocky Mountain News:
Black-and-blue Brown — Disaster point man has been beat up by jobs, friends say — WASHINGTON - As criticism of him grew this week, Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Mike Brown sent a candid e-mail to family and friends. — "I don't mind the negative press (well, actually …
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Washington Post:
The Steady Buildup to a City's Chaos — Confusion Reigned At Every Level Of Government — Walter Maestri had dreaded this call for a decade, ever since he took over emergency management for Jefferson Parish, a marshy collection of suburbs around New Orleans.
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Brian Ross / ABCNEWS:
Tape Released: American al Qaeda Member Warns of Attacks — Names Los Angeles and Melbourne as Next Targets — Sept. 11, 2005 — In an apparent Sept. 11 communiqué broadcast on ABC News, an al Qaeda operative threatens new attacks against cities in the US and Australia.
Times of London:
Ditch Holocaust day, advisers urge Blair — ADVISERS appointed by Tony Blair after the London bombings are proposing to scrap the Jewish Holocaust Memorial Day because it is regarded as offensive to Muslims. — They want to replace it with a Genocide Day that would recognise the mass murder …
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Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Terror war all but forgotten on home front — Sept. 11, 2005 — the fourth anniversary of the start of the war. That is, if you believe it's a ''war'' A lot of people didn't want to, even in those first days. — About a week after, one of my local radio stations held a fund-raiser and this is how their trailer for it opened.
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Roger L. Simon / Mystery Novelist and Screenwriter:
Yahoo - A Good 1940s German Company — I was about to go to sleep until I read this pathetic statement from Yahoo chief Jerry Yang excusing his company's passing information to Chinese authorities which resulted in a ten-year prison sentence for journalist Shi Tao. … Oh, really?
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Amy Westfeldt / Associated Press:
Nation Remembers Victims of 9/11 Attacks — NEW YORK - America grieved the victims of Sept. 11 on Sunday as the brothers and sisters of the dead recited their loved ones' names and tearful messages of remembrance to a weeping crowd gathered at the site where the World Trade Center once stood.
Michele / a small victory:
TODAY — I still think about it on days like this, when the sky is a deep blue, the clouds are perfectly formed bundles of white, the air is crisp and cool; chilly enough for long sleeves but warm enough to keep the windows in the car rolled down. It was a just like that day. It was a perfect day, for a while.
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Yourish.com
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Jack Kelly: No shame — The federal response to Katrina was not as portrayed — It is settled wisdom among journalists that the federal response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina was unconscionably slow. — "Mr. Bush's performance last week will rank as one of the worst ever during …
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
THE SMART VS. THE STUPID — The smart, in this case, is David Riggs, a Ph.D. in applied economics with whom I became friends when he worked at the Center of the American Experiment, a Minnesota-based think tank on whose board of directors I served for some years, and of which Scott is currently a member.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Sissy Willis / sisu:
Let's roll! … Where some see crescents, others see apple pie. Michelle Malkin and other A-list bloggers we usually see eye to eye with are seeing red and whipping their readers into a primal frenzy over things they see that others don't. She's impugning the motives of Los Angeles architect Paul Murdoch …
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Palm Beach Post:
Lack of plan hurt Katrina-hit states' response — TALLAHASSEE — One thing Florida knows is hurricanes. — Florida emergency planners criticized and even rebuked their counterparts — or what passes for emergency planners — in those states for their handling of Hurricane Katrina.
Juan / Informed Comment:
9/11, 7/7 and 8/30 — On the fourth-year anniversary of the al-Qaeda attacks on the US, it is important that we take stock of where we stand. We do not stand in a good place. The US military is bogged down in an intractable guerrilla war in Iraq, which most Muslims view as an aggressive neo-imperialism.
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Reliapundit / The Astute Blogger:
MORTALITY COMPARISONS REVEAL USA RESPONSE TO KATRINA WAS EXCELLENT — Nagin - the inept and negligent and hysterical mayor of New Orleans - who bears major responsibility for the horrific conditions in the Superdome and the Convention Center (because he FAILED to evaucate his poor citizens from the city …