With all the mudslinging going on, I figured it might help having a time line of the events leading to Katrina’s landfall. Apparently Nagin and Blanco don’t recall the rejected help when it came early enough. On the other hand many of the ‘rape and murder’ events the media reported never happened either. The original… »

“This school offers services to learning-disabled children,” said Haugh, who appeared tense but composed as she read from a prepared statement and then left the board meeting. “It has not, is not, and will not be a threat to the broad mission of public schools like the Akron Public Schools.”
Board President Paul Allison became emotional… »

On Tuesday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi announced that she would offer up $70 million, out of the $129 million in highway bill earmarks that she won for her district, to offset the cost of the Katrina relief effort, surpassing the 50 percent target set in the Heritage Foundation???s initial highway bill “give-back” proposal. And… »

Update on seizing guns in New Orleans.

(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 and law-abiding victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
The New York Times ran the news… »

A decade ago Hillary Clinton proposed a national ID card for her health care plan (which was ultimately abandoned).
Now, the Federal Commision on Election Reform — led by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker — has endorsed the use of Photo ID cards to reduce voter fraud.
But Hillary isn’t… »

BATON ROUGE, La. – Police found cases of food, clothing and tools intended for hurricane victims at the home of the chief administrative officer for a New Orleans suburb, authorities said Wednesday.
And we wonder why the local and state goverments of that state couldn’t look out for the best interest of their own state. They… »