"Thy rod and thy staff Comfort me"
Latest in the news about the rescue operations in New Orleans is the dispatching of the hospital ship USNS Comfort. She's currently in Mayport, Florida, taking on supplies and …
Hurricane Katrina Response – A Photographic Timeline
Free Republic member Wolfstar uses the media's own images to rebut the notion that there was slow federal response to in New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf …
Quote Of The Day – A Better Idiot Edition
"Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't …
Killing two birds with one stone
The US currently has a number of problems on our plate, and our attempts to handle them all sometimes reminds me of Steve Martin's infamous "kitten juggling." But it …
Everyone has a purpose in life, it seems
Earlier, I did a little roundup of some interesting crime stories out of New England. One of them was about a 45-year-old man arrested for taking pictures up the …
Katrina Required Reading
Slowly but surely the national media is getting the story right. In the first few days of the story, 95% of what they said was wrong. Some reporters (in …
FEMA FOLLIES
If you've ever wondered why true conservatives are skeptical about the ability of government.... Right city, wrong state (CNN) -- Add geography to the growing list of FEMA fumbles. …
Cutting the NOPD some slack
The other day, Kevin and I lambasted a plan to give New Orleans police officers free vacations to Las Vegas in the wake (literally) of Hurricane Katrina. We were …
State Left New Orleans Police To Fend For Themselves
In a bit of information that I could not verify, but was linked by Chris Regan at JunkYardBlog, this Behind the News article by former reporter Jon Christian Ryter …
Pitcher scores grand slam
One of the many thousands of people made refugees by Hurricane Katrina is the Fields family. This couple has seven kids, and they were staying at an Atlanta hotel …