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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 […]

Over at Radioblogger.com there is a transcript of an interview between the Los Angeles Times' Tim Rutten and talk show host Hugh Hewitt. The occassion for the interview was an article Rutten was working on for last week's paper. For those who are unfamiliar with Hewitt's show, he has a policy of recording any interview […]

Ross Gelbspan blames global warming for Katrina. Patrick Michaels blames the weather. I'm going to blame women's lib -- just to be different.

Here in San Diego it's as dry as a bone and hot -- really hot. I've no particular insight on the happenings Katrina has wrought in Louisiana, instead I will blog about another bad Katrina. My freshman year of high school I took a science class. It wasn't a chemistry, biology or physics class -- […]