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Cao / Cao's Blog:
Never Forget — Tribute to 9/11. — Tribute in Light. — My husband and I were both working that day, I remember hearing about this from someone who was watching the news in the break room. All day long we were following this news...watching the videos, and amazingly …
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Jim Lynch / bRight & Early:Never Forget — For the most part I will use this to point …
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Wonder Woman / A North American Patriot:NEVER FORGET — "I would give the greatest sunset in the world …
Ogre / Ogre's Politics & Views:September 11th — Today many are posting about memories from September 11th.
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Evan Thomas / MSNBC:
How Bush Blew It — Bureaucratic timidity. Bad phone lines. And a failure of imagination. Why the government was so slow to respond to catastrophe. — Newsweek — 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 …
NEWS.com.au:
Patients put down — DOCTORS working in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans killed critically ill patients rather than leave them to die in agony as they evacuated. — With gangs of rapists and looters rampaging through wards in the flooded city, senior doctors took the harrowing decision …
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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Hullabaloo:
Dusting Off The Manual — Kevin reports that Time magazine says the Republicans have a three point plan for a comeback after Katrina: … There's one other little way to gin up base conservative voters that we can already see developing on the shout fest and gasbags shows.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Louisiana Failed To Follow A Flawed Plan: Florida — Today's Palm Beach Post takes a look at the Katrina response from a Floridian point of view, one that has plenty of experience with hurricane devastation and response. The verdict of Florida's emergency response officials …
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Michael Kinsley / Los Angeles Times:
The fetid aroma of hindsight — Recriminations are all the rage today. But really, does anyone ever pay attention to the prophets of doom until it's too late? — AS A GOOD AMERICAN, you no doubt have been worried sick for years about the levees around New Orleans.
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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Nancy Benac / Associated Press:
Katrina Exodus Could Change Political Mix — WASHINGTON - Population shifts caused by the exodus of hurricane victims from the Gulf Coast could have ripple effects for years to come in Louisiana political races and perhaps beyond. — How big depends on how many people stay away …
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.
Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:
Katrina Darkens the Outlook for Incumbents — Public Dismay Could Shape 2006 Elections — Hurricane Katrina has the potential to foment change in Washington like the terrorist strikes did four years ago, altering the government's priorities for the foreseeable future and darkening the mood …
Toby Helm / Telegraph:
Jews and Freemasons controlled war on Iraq, says No 10 adviser — Tony Blair decided to wage war on Iraq after coming under the influence of a "sinister" group of Jews and Freemasons, a Muslim barrister who advises the Prime Minister has claimed. — Ahmad Thomson, from the Association of Muslim Lawyers …
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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Michelle Malkin:
THE DEMOCRATS' KATRINA PROFITEER — From the "Bias? What liberal bias?" files... On Saturday, CNN.com had a piece titled "Firms with White House ties get Katrina contracts:" … The Baton Rouge-based Shaw Group, CNN tells us, is a major corporate client of Joe Allbaugh …
Dean / Dean's World:
Perpetual Indignance As Political Expression — Many years ago, one of the (many many) things that caused me to walk away from the political left was what conservatives used to call "the perpetually indignant"—the people who perceived racial, ethnic, or sexist slights in everything.
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