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It's not often I disagree with the first lady of the blogospere but Michelle Malkins rantings concerning the firing of FEMA director Michael Brown couldn't be further of the mark. Her arguments: -He admitted that he didn't act more aggressively because as late as last Sunday he expected Katrina to be a "standard hurricane" even though the National Weather Service in New Orleans was already predicting "human suffering incredible by modern standards." - He proved himself utterly clueless about the disaster unfolding in New Orleans. He claimed that the federal relief effort was "going relatively well" and that the security...

Hello Fellow Freepers, I am posting this because forum is the biggest, most active place I can think of to help out a fellow Texan and the Katrina survivors at the same time. I posting this letter from fellow Texan Scott Chaffin, a gentleman who lives just up the way from on the rambling river known as "the Arms of God", El Brazos de Dios, who would like to utilize the resources he has at his "tiny bidness." He writes : Dear Sweet, Clean Texas Members of the TFG Blogroll, You might or might not know that I have a...

Rebuilding the Gulf Coast, One Group at a Time The only way to rebuild the societies battered by Katrina is for specialized groups to find one another. The internet is ready to help. by Hugh Hewitt 09/02/2005 12:00:00 AM YESTERDAY America's emergency relief effort went into high gear and is likely to stay there for weeks, as all across the country citizens open their wallets to help out their fellow countrymen. Before long, however, the extreme needs will be met and the long-term rebuilding will get underway. At that point it will become much less obvious how ordinary Americans can...

It starts and ends with a photograph of a mustard-laden Pronto Pup, and in between, Brian Lebakken dutifully catalogs the eventful and not-so-eventful details of the Minnesota State Fair on his Web log. There are Web logs, commonly known as blogs, about sports and about politics. There are even blogs covering TV shows and celebrities. And tucked away in a little part of the World Wide Web is a blog about the Minnesota State Fair. An electronic scrapbook and rambling musings gathered from daily trips, it started as a means for far-flung family and friends to attend the State Fair...

An Arizona national guardsman serving in Iraq has been demoted for posting classified information on his blog, an army official said. Leonard Clark (40) was demoted from specialist to private first class and fined $1 640 said Colonel Bill Buckner, a spokesperson for the Multi-National Corps-Iraq, on Monday. Soldiers in Iraq are allowed to maintain blogs but cannot post information about army operations or movements. They also are barred from posting information about the death of a soldier whose family hasn't yet been notified. "The intent of the policy is not to violate soldiers' rights, but to safeguard soldiers," Buckner...

August 22, 2005 Iraq News Roundup-Part 3 Here is the news from Iraq for the third week of August 2005: While the MSM salivates over the heroism of Cindy Sheehan it is all but ignoring the real heroes, like Spc. Casey Carroll who is fighting to go back to his unit in Iraq despite losing a finger in an car bomb attack: Doctors sent the 22-year-old, a father of two, home in March, after he lost a finger from a vehicle-borne improvised-explosive device. However, his intentions were not to stay there. He said coming back to Iraq and fighting this...

First, Cartwright had to knock down traditional barriers Picture the modern-day blogger and the ramrod straight, spit-and-polish image of a four-star Marine general isn't what comes to mind. Gen. James "Hoss" Cartwright is breaking the mold. Cartwright, whose nickname came from Bonanza television show character, heads U.S. Strategic Command, or STRATCOM, which oversees the Army's Space & Missile Defense Command. Cartwright, who spoke in Huntsville Tuesday at the annual Space & Missile Defense Conference at the Von Braun Center, is a big proponent of using a Web log, or blog, as a communication tool. About a year ago, Cartwright set...

KSFO/San Francisco talk host Melanie Morgan's group Move America Forward is organizing a counterevent, to take on Cindy Sheehan's Crawford circus, that has Rhodes so excited: Next week Move America Forward will be leading a caravan to Crawford, Texas - to present an alternative voice to that of Cindy Sheehan, who has become the heroine of the "Blame America First" crowd. The Move America Forward's caravan (the "You Don't Speak for Me, Cindy" tour) will consist of family members who have loved ones fighting in the war against terrorism - stationed in either Iraq or Afghanistan. The truth is that...

Inside Air America: An Investigative Blog ReportPart. 1: A Trail of Debts By Michelle Malkin and Brian Maloney michellemalkin.com/radioequalizer.blogspot.com August 17, 2005 *** It's not just the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls that's knocking on Air America Radio's door looking for lost money. According to court records obtained by Radio Equalizer/MichelleMalkin.com, another major creditor has been demanding that Air America pay up. The liberal radio network has refused to do so, despite a court order and scathing words from a New York judge overseeing the case. Now, the creditor--Multicultural Radio Broadcasting Inc.--has filed a new complaint, accusing Air America and...

Bad language ....'ed out. This from a former and disgruntled FoxNews employee named Carla Frenk (she tries to hide behind the DC Media Girl moniker on her blog site). Easy to see why she was fired. ==== "Why Michelle Malkin must be destroyed" I was going to do this in letter form, but I’m just not in the f...... mood. Michelle Malkin has demonstrated, clearly and concisely, what I was trying to point out below: That these wingnuts will say anything and stop at nothing to win, while putting on a great show of taking offense when the shoe is...

<p>Regarding your protest outside of Crawford, Texas, and your many statements regarding the death of your son, Casey, and against the war in Iraq, where your son was fighting for his country and died in that war, I have this to say to you.</p>

Bush-Bashing Mother Longtime Leftist Posted by Andrew Walden @ Thursday 11 August 2005, 6:12 pm From Solano Peace and Justice Website"One other piece of news I need to pass along to you comes from Cindy Sheehan. Both she and her husband Pat have ‘done time’ on our vigil line in the past and many of you have gotten the chance to meet them. Well, she has been BUSY this past several months. Boy, has she been busy. Speaking engagements all across this country of ours … bringing her story to as wide an audience as she can manage. But...

By Any Means Necessary? I'd like to believe that people who are impassioned by what they believe is a right and true cause, would use every legal, honest, legitimate means to advocate their cause. Not because they are such righteous people but because they wouldn't want their cause unduly smeared by their own actions. Right? Wrong.I never cease to be amazed by the audacity of extremist abortion rights advocates in this manner. This time NARAL (National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League) has paid to run an add on the air on some cable news channels. (There are unconfirmed...

Hoffman has excuses, not answers By David Harsanyi Denver Post Columnist Evidently, Elizabeth Hoffman, former president of the University of Colorado, is unfamiliar with a well-known adage on leadership that goes something like this: "Anyone can steer the Enterprise when the Klingons aren't around." Last week, in a speech that was originally supposed to be titled "Why I Left the University of Colorado," Hoffman, attempted to shed any responsibility for her tenure at CU, rolling out a litany of inane excuses. Let's start with the most comical: Hoffman blamed her controversial "C-word" deposition - my personal favorite CU fiasco -...

THE MUCKRAKING N.Y. TIMES By Michelle Malkin   ·   August 04, 2005 03:10 PM Well, now we know why the NYTimes hasn't bothered to cover Air Enron/Air Scamerica. They're too preoccupied with prying into the adoption records of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' young children, according to the Drudge Report. For God's sake. Jeff Goldstein has a list of what's next on the NYTimes' dirt-digging agenda. 4: Can Judge Roberts account for his whereabouts on the night Natalee disappeared? NYTimes ombudsman Byron Calame is going to be a very busy man. *** On the same wavelength...Ed Morrissey, Jason Smith Bainbridge: Slimy...

WHAT DID AL FRANKEN KNOW, and when did he know it? When Air America launched last year, it was the beneficiary of more free publicity than any radio show or network launch had ever received. So desperate was the mainstream media to find some left-leaning response to the Limbaugh-led revolution in talk radio that the many and obvious flaws in the network's offerings went largely unreported. Those of us who have been around radio studios for a few years know, though, that launch hype and selective reading of Arbitron results can never mask the key question: Is a show profitable?...

SNEAK PEEK: UNHINGED By Michelle Malkin   ·   August 03, 2005 04:27 PM Sorry for the light blogging today. Just been swamped. To make up, here's a sneak peek at the cover of my latest book, which will be coming out in October from Regnery. I wasn't going to say much, but lots of folks have been asking about it. You'll love it or you'll hate it. Roman Genn, conservative caricaturist extraordinaire, did the Edward Munch-inspired cover illustration: YEAAARGHH!

Tuesday, August 2 Michelle Malkin and Hugh Hewitt pulling Air Ameriscam threadsOnce again doing the job of mainstream media, these two biggies of the blogosphere, Michelle Malkin and Hugh Hewitt, spent a couple of segments earlier this afternoon comparing notes on the Gloria Wise/Air America scandal, which appears to have the liberal radio network getting their startup financing literally out of the hands of a boys and girls club in the Bronx. Here's the interview:HH: Michelle, welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt show.MM: Thanks for having me back, Hugh, and thanks for helping force this story into the mainstream....

Where are they? Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are the supermen of the civil rights establishment — able to leap tall buildings in a single bound to get in front of a picket line. When victim politics calls, the demagogic duo leap into patented action: March. Boycott. Shakedown. Repeat. But the raging reverends are nowhere to be found as a scandal involving the liberal radio network Air America and a Bronx, N.Y.-based inner city charity for poor children brews. Why the silence?

AIR ENRON By Michelle Malkin   ·   August 02, 2005 05:57 AM David Lombino of The New York Sun continues to move the Air America story forward. According to Lombino's latest article, Al Franken revealed that Air America's current owners have known about the loan from Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club for some time: Mr. Franken said he has learned details of the story only in the last week. He said Piquant LLC, current owner and operator of the radio network, found a record of the transfers while conducting a "forensic" investigation into the finances of the previous owner, Progress...