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George W. Bush approved too much federal money in response to Hurricane Katrina. Many liberals think he hasn't approved enough. Nearly everybody believes that whatever money has been spent has not been spent wisely. They're all correct. What's most distressing about the Bush response, and non-response, to Katrina is that all the President's promises for a creative new approach to major-disaster relief have gone for naught. One of the world's great cities is dying before our eyes, yet the Bush administration has actively fought against the very recovery proposal that is the most pro-free market, most pro-private enterprise, most taxpayer-friendly,...

NEW ORLEANS -- Here's a tip: If you're a college football recruiting junkie, think again before following in lockstep praise over the talent haul of Notre Dame, USC and Florida. Let's see who really develops into the five-star players down the road, anyway. And who couldn't draw impressionable kids to those locales? Now, if the idea is to make this a reality check and toss in dicey obstacles, nobody in the college game pulled in a better class than Chris Scelfo and his Tulane coaching staff. According to the self-ordained experts, they landed an assortment of gritty, two-star athletes. There...

The rumors of the candidacy of former Orleans Council President Peggy Wilson for Mayor are now confirmed. In an interview with The Louisiana Weekly, Wilson confirmed that she had met with a group of consultants and has begun fundraising for a bid for the city's chief executive post. Three months ago, the idea that a Republican, much less a white Republican, seeking the Mayor's office would have brought nothing but the proverbial "guffaws" of the impossible or quixotic. Yet, with a February election looming, and most of the city's population gone, perhaps permanently, the former Council President's quest seems less...

Watching After Words on CSPAN tonight. Newt was the featured guest and at the end of the interview, he seemed beyond confident that Dick Cheney would be the Republican nominee for President in 2008. Thanks to the mediocre list of candidates floating around, I assume most freepers are very excited about the possibility.

The exit polling data has created a distinct misimpression in the media. Only dumb rednecks who hate gays voted for Bush. However a close examination of the data shows otherwise. Look at the results via educational background. 49% of the people who didn't graduate high school voted for Bush versus 44% of the people with a post graduate degree. In other words, there are more morons who have earned graduate degrees than have dropped out of high school. It should be noted, Bush did consistently well with people who are h.s. grads, have some college and are college graduates (around...

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored, He has loosed the fateful lightening of His terrible swift sword His truth is marching on. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on. I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps His day is marching on. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory!...

At my latest campaign stop, somewhere near Lambert Field or (was it Houlihan's Stadium?), Steve Winwood's seminal anthem of the disgruntled left "Roll With It, Baby" played on the loud speaker. All of sudden I was remembered 1988, which reminded me of the Dukakis campaign. Now I can't get the Dukakis campaign out of my head. There's no rhyme or reason for it either. I am really not sure why I can't stop thinking of the Dukakis campaign. I hadn't thought of it in years but now it's all I can think about. There doesn't seem to be any real...

I realize there has been a real lack of clarity to my positions with respect to national security issues. Therefore on the third anniversary of September 11, let me make one thing and one thing clear. I am against terrorism. In my administration, terrorists who commit acts on U.S. soil, will be brought to justice and they WILL be tried in a court of law and convicted. I cannot emphasize this enough. Under my leadership, the U.S. Department of Justice will never relent in prosecuting terrorists. They will aggressively meet the burdens of proof and will obtain convictions in as...

While sipping a Pimm's Cup with Teresa in the Deluxe Suite at the Atlanta Ritz Carlton, I had what some down south might call a 'hankering' for some barbecue. Teresa suggested that we send our house servant, Mrs. Landingham out for take out. See, we had brought Mrs. Landingham with us to reward her with a working vacation. She was originally to have her own room, but my daughter Vanessa decided to join us, so Teresa decided that Mrs. Landingham could sleep on the pull out couch in the den, rather than get her own room, that way, she would...

With the sawing off of Nick Berg's Al Qaeda was able to provide what the liberal media and democrats could not; provide context to the Iraqi prisoner abuse "scandal". For anyone who has watched the video of Nick Berg's senseless death, a queasy feeling remains for hours. Watching terrorists shout their praise of Allah juxtapositioned against young Nick's blood curdling screams is unbelievably hard to watch. I viewed the video, this afternoon and even at 10:00 p.m. central time, I am still sick to my stomach. The dull blade cuts back and forth, then Al Zwahari rips and twists Berg's...

<p>A 20-year-old man, naked and bleeding from a gunshot wound to the back, showed up Thanksgiving evening at the home of retired Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken, claiming he had been kidnapped and pleading for help, police said.</p> <p>The man, Brian Robins, 20, of Baltimore, was found outside Ripken's home north of Baltimore shortly after 9 p.m. ET Thursday and was taken by helicopter to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, police said.</p>

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor predicts that the U.S. Supreme Court will increasingly base its decisions on international law rather than the U.S. Constitution, according to an article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. By doing so, the court will make a good impression among people from other countries, she said. "The impressions we create in this world are important and they can leave their mark," Justice O'Connor said. On the whole, the U.S. judicial system leaves a favorable impression around the world, she said "but when it comes to the impression created by the treatment of foreign and international law and the...

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The Real World 13 is set in Paris. The series was filmed prior to and during Operation Iraqi Freedom, at the height of Chirac's backstabbing. Only MTV would have the gall. I can't wait for these telegnic morons to lecture us on how the U.S. doesn't understand the French point of view. There should be more self loathing and anti-americanism in one episode of this dreck than during the entire Dixie Chicks concert tour. The only good thing about this is I can combine my continuous boycotts of France and MTV at the same time. Read Ace's bio. Aside from...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) - LaWanda Page, who played the fearsome, Bible-toting aunt Esther Anderson on the 1970s television comedy "Sanford & Son," has died. She was 81. Page died Saturday at Centinela Hospital Medical Center from complications of diabetes, friend and producer Donald Welch said Monday. After the aunt Esther role from 1973 to 1977 on "Sanford & Son," Page appeared as aunt Esther in the short-lived spinoff "The Sanford Arms" in 1977. She also starred in "Detective School" in 1979 and "B.A.D. Cats" in 1980. Born in Cleveland on Oct. 19, 1920, Page began her show business career as...

Just throwing it out there. I have found Klintoon to be particularly revolting over the past week, w/ his talk show and whatnot. My favorite nickname for him is Klintoon. I wish I could figure how to do the backwards K on my computer for the full Soviet effect. Feel free to take some shots at Hitlerly as well.

First Bowden, now BOWDEN. Another inexplicable, indefensible vulgarization of the overarching human tragedy of September 11th by a sports figure. First Reds' General Manager Jim Bowden's bad jokes about a baseball strike resembling the suicide hijackings, now Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden announcing the Seminoles' 2002 team slogan is "Let's Roll." "Let's Roll" were among the last words said by one of the passengers on Flight 93, Todd Beamer. Beamer and other civilians overpowered the criminals, preventing a fourth building crash; all on board died near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Bobby Bowden has turned those stirring, chilling, heartbreaking words, into...

  City Hall corruption sweep begins 84 busts today target brake-tag, taxicab officials Corruption pervades government, Nagin says 07/22/02By Gordon Russell Staff writer/The Times-Picayune In predawn raids, police this morning were scheduled to fan out across New Orleans to arrest 84 city bureaucrats, brake-tag inspectors and illegally licensed cab drivers on charges of public bribery and malfeasance, an opening salvo by the Nagin administration in what bodes to be the biggest crackdown on municipal corruption in the modern history of the city. Today's arrests will include at least one high-level city manager , as well as some brake-tag station...

Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 6:31 PM Subject: Informal SITREP - Backdoor message from a SOF guy on the ground. .. (Nearly a month ago...) November 11, 2001 Bizarre, It's (expletive) freezing here. I'm sitting on hard, cold dirt between rocks and shrubs at the base of the Hindu Kush mountains along the Dar 'yoi Pomir River watching a hole that leads to a tunnel that leads to a cave. Stake out, my friend, and no pizza delivery for thousands of miles. I also glance at the area around my ass every ten to fifteen seconds to avoid another ...

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