On October 5, former president Bill Clinton visited Louisiana on a fact-finding tour and made these points among others:
- give rebuilding jobs to those affected, not out-of-state firms: For long-term work, Clinton said it's important to "hire people from Louisiana even if they have to be retrained."
- repeal the suspension of Davis-Bacon
- "We need to […]
The House recently passed the GAS Act of 2005, which, cutely enough, stands for the "Gasoline for America's Security Act".
According to Congressman Patrick McHenry (R-NC-10), "the GAS Act of 2005 will cut red tape that prevents more refineries from being built. It would also improve infrastructure within the United States so that gas and diesel […]
The NYT interviews a few interested parties in "Some Experts Say It's Time to Evacuate the Coast (for Good)".
"CBS Discounts Global Warming as Culprit, Notes Big Storms in Past" discusses how some CBS reporters claimed that global warming was the cause of recent major hurricanes, but how other CBS reports discounted that possibility.
It also offers the thoughts of Babs:
"We are in a global warming emergency state and these storms are going to become […]
Remember the posts “Greens vs. Levees” or "New Orleans: A Green Genocide"? It looks like the feds might have been reading those articles:
The Clarion-Ledger has obtained a copy of an internal e-mail the U.S. Department of Justice sent out this week to various U.S. attorneys' offices: "Has your district defended any cases on behalf of […]
John Berlau from Sep. 8:
With all that has happened in the state, it's understandable that the Louisiana chapter of the Sierra Club may not have updated its website. But when its members get around to it, they may want to change the wording of one item in particular. The site brags that the group is […]
I'm not going to go quite that far, but FPM says:
…Decades ago, the Green Left – pursuing its agenda of valuing wetlands and topographical “diversity” over human life – sued to prevent the Army Corps of Engineers from building floodgates that would have prevented significant flooding that resulted from Hurricane Katrina…
…The New Orleans Army Corps […]
