Original at DailyKos From the NYT: The Bush administration, citing the confidentiality of executive branch communications, said Tuesday that it did not plan to turn over certain documents about Hurricane Katrina or make senior...
Read MorePressured by a Federal judge, Governor Kathleen Blanco has finally set April 22 for New Orleans elections, which were postponed since Katrina, broken levees and the U.S. Army helped to disperse thousands of residents out of the...
Read More(I couldn’t post this to Daily Kos, so I’m posting it here first.) We’ve all been media-saturated with what I call New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin’s “chocolate” statement. You know: the...
Read MoreOriginal at DailyKos I came across this commentary by poet Tonya Matthews about the Internet petition going around that asks support for designating Mardi Gras as a national holiday. While I am against people coming and...
Read MoreNo. This is not Hallowe’en night masking on New Year’s Eve. Several people have spoken of this phenomenon, most notably former Senator Max Cleland of Georgia on an episode of Bill Maher’s Real Time....
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