Ever since the magnitude of Hurricane Katrina's destruction in New Orleans and the Mississippi coast became clear, the political left has been in heightened outrage mode. First it was the Bush administration's callous budget cuts to flood control and levee projects in New Orleans. Unfortunately, these sorts of federal funding decisions are fundamentally political -- […]
Chief Justice William Rehnquist died last night -- making a bad night at work worse and causing me to fail to take my state-mandated 30 minute lunch break. This has had the predictible effect of causing the Loony Left to go into super tinfoil hat mode and other assorted disgusting commentary. The hate is palpable.
If you're reading Hoystory Saturday afternoon instead of watching college football, well, that's just sad. However, since you're here, here's some things to check out. Capt. Ed takes Congress to task for waiting five days before passing legislation funding Hurricane Katriana relief. Powerline's Paul Mirengoff does an excellent job of correcting columnist George Will on […]
Over at EU ROTA, the Lexis-Nexis database has provided us with the craven and shameless opportunism that is the New York Times editorial page. First, Thursday's Times editorial on the Hurricane Katrina tragedy: While our attention must now be on the Gulf Coast's most immediate needs, the nation will soon ask why New Orleans's levees […]
Before the levee(s) broke, Hurricane Katrina didn't look much worse than most other Category 4 storms that have hit the U.S. in recent years. It was the failure of the levees and the subsequent flooding and rampant lawlessness that kicked this thing up to a whole new level. I've never been in the aftermath of […]
I must confess that my blood pressure's been rising steadily all day as I've read some of the insanity coming mostly from the left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Let's start with the right. Proving that politics is not a line, but a circle, we have Repent America claiming that Hurricane Katrina was God's […]
In an attempt to rewrite history, Sen. Chuck Schumer has been going around to various special interest groups attempting to downplay the deference given to the president in choosing his judicial nominees in years past. Texas Sen. John Cornyn presents us with the rest of the story.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. -- last seen trying to make sure kids die by conjuring up a vaccine scare -- has decided that the Senate's 95-0 rejection of the Kyoto global warming treaty President Bush's rejection of the Kyoto global warming treaty was to blame for Hurricane Katrina. Maybe there's been too much Martha's Vineyard […]
Peggy Noonan has a pretty good article on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Of note is Noonan's analysis of how to tell the looters from people just trying to survive. There seems to be some confusion in terms of terminology on TV. People with no food and water who are walking into supermarkets and taking […]
I sent the following e-mail letter to Poynter Online's quasi-blog Romenesko. They're apparently not interested in publishing it. Last Thursday, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert basically recycled a column he wrote in 1999 with a new top and a new bottom. The heart of the column nine paragraphs was practically the same. Whether or […]