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NOPD clears cops in looting probe They had OK to take clothing, officials say Saturday, March 18, 2006 By Michael Perlstein Staff writer Four New Orleans police officers have been cleared of looting allegations stemming from a news videotape that shows them taking items from the Uptown Wal-Mart two days after Hurricane Katrina, but the officers were suspended for 10 days for failing to stop civilians from cleaning out the ransacked store, the New Orleans Police Department said Friday. Advertisement The video, shot by an MSNBC crew inside Wal-Mart, shows the officers filling a shopping cart with shoes, clothes and...

In the chaos that followed the worst natural disaster in American history, a forensic investigation has been taking place to find out what went wrong and why. The BBC's Horizon programme has spoken to the scientists who are now confronting the real possibility that New Orleans may be the first of many cities worldwide to face extinction. Modern day New Orleans was a city that defied the odds. Built on a mosquito infested swamp squashed between two vast bodies of water in what is essentially a bowl, its very existence seemed proof of the triumph of engineering over nature. But...

STUPID-SMART:on rehabbing the clintons + New Orleans by Mia T, 9.22.05 ven if President Bush continues to pursue1 his beyond-stupid idea of rehabbing the clintons, the Right can still win the war. If Bush refuses to reconstitute the failed, rotten-to-the-core New Orleans welfare state and instead sets up a successful, honest laboratory of conservative policy, he will, without question, deliver the clintons' and the Left's deathblow. Listen carefully to the perjurer, to the congenital liar and to the rest of the moribund, prevaricating Left. Simply invert their message to get at the truth. It is patently obvious that the...

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Did I really just hear Geraldo refer to New Orleans, as The Big Hard? Or is it just my imagination?