The federal response has been slow to reach those who need it the most, but it increasingly seems clear that the reason is largely the almost instant and virtually complete collapse of city and state authority after the levee broke. Certainly President George W. Bush didn’t ignore the hurricane threat as it was building off [...]

Holed up in a high-rise, Interdictor reports:
In case anyone in national security is reading this, get the word to President Bush that we need the military in here NOW. The Active Duty Armed Forces. Mr. President, we are losing this city. I don’t care what you’re hearing on the news. The city is being lost. [...]

Jonah Goldberg drew a lot of ire for this post, joking that the people huddling in the Louisiana Superdome should prepare for the worst by growing gills a la Waterworld and forming tribes a la Lord of the Flies .
After taking flak for it, he backed down, emphasizing that he had been joking about it [...]

My heart goes out to the hundreds of thousands who have left their homes along the Gulf of Mexico, and the many who have had their homes destroyed by hurricane Katrina. I really don’t know what to say other than that. Stranded people must be rescued. Looters must be stopped. Evacuees tended to. I [...]

The entertaining, biting, and insightful Saudi blogger Muttawa has moved to Britian and resumed blogging after a year-long hiatus. More than a few feared he had been silenced by Saudi authorities for his his merciless criticism of the Saud family, but he was just laying low, and has now now made his triumphant return.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its employment summary numbers for July 2005, and things look good. While employment rates didn’t change, total nonfarm employment grew by 207,000, and jobless rate is down .5 percent to 5.o, compared to 5.5 percent at this time last year. Retail employment increased by 50,000 in July, bringing [...]

Robert Samuelson’s makes note of one of today’s big non-stories: The absence of inflation:
“A year and a half ago, almost every forecaster thought inflation would be higher,” says economist Nariman Behravesh of Global Insight. One reason that higher oil prices haven’t yet crippled the economy is that they haven’t triggered a widespread jump in wages [...]

I simply can’t comprehend how in the world the 9/11 memorial was hijacked by mraxists, but apparently it was. Here’s a brief summary by one of the projects opponents, lifted from an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal:
The organizers of its principal tenant, the International Freedom Center (IFC), have stated that they intend to take [...]

Things are looking up - the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis issued a press release today stating that the economy grew at an annual rate of 3.4 percent in the second quarter of 2005, marking the ninth straight quarter of growth exceeding 3 percent. However, the gross domestic product slowed from the first quarter’s rate [...]

Liberal radio network Air America is the target of an investigation by the NYC Department of Investigation for allegedly diverting funds meant for inner-city kids’ programs to the station. Charles Rosen, founder of the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club based out of the Co-op City housing project in the Bronx, is said to have [...]