Katrina Coverage

Analyzing the news reports and politics of the New Orleans hurricane.

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There's a 20-point plan to destroy Black New Orleans?

February 4th, 2006
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Robert D. Bullard, the director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, offers the plan that apparently president Bush has been following. While some of the points are interesting, the article is spoiled a bit with it's less-than-helpful viewpoint.
It's printed in the Pacific News Service, which has a habit of publishing racist […]

ACLU opposed background checks on evacuees

December 31st, 2005
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From 9/24:
The leader of the [South Carolina] chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union says racism was at the heart of assumptions that led to South Carolina to do criminal background checks of Hurricane Katrina evacuees.
From the same state:
"We want to uphold everyone's constitutional rights," State Law Enforcement Division Chief Robert Stewart said. "But […]

Lefties demand Category 5 protection for New Orleans

December 17th, 2005
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Various left-wing groups are trying to get 300,000 emails demanding Category 5 protection and other goodies.
Take a deep breath and read the organizations involved:
All Congregations Together * Alliance for Affordable Energy * Atchafalaya Basinkeeper * Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program * Baton Rouge Audubon Society * Black Bear Conservation Committee * Citizens Against Widening the Industrial […]

Red Cross racist? Yes, if you believe a far-leftie illegal immigration supporter

December 17th, 2005
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The DN report discussed in "DemocracyNow shocked by effects of supporting massive illegal immigration" also contains various anti-Red Cross charges from Bill Chandler, president of the Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance, and I have a great deal of trouble believing what he says because of the earlier report WSJ: “Undocumented” workers face struggle to take American […]

DemocracyNow shocked by effects of supporting massive illegal immigration

December 16th, 2005
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Earlier today, Amy Goodman's DemocracyNow broadcast "House Debates Bill to Rewrite Immigration Laws, Includes Provision that Makes it a Felony to be an Undocumented Worker". That makes it clear that not only does DN support illegal immigration, but they're unable to keep up with the news: the felony provision had been removed the day before.
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"Rowboat Federalism: The Politics of U.S. Disaster Relief"

December 4th, 2005
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You socialists are in for a special treat, as the proudly socialist rag Monthly Review offers this from a professor of political science at Seminole Community College. It's an extra special treat because Part 2 is here.

WSJ thankful for wrecked New Orleans Public School system

November 25th, 2005
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If you read thinkprogress (nofollowpolicy), you'd think that. Except, they only provide part of the quote from the WSJ:
Catholic schools in New Orleans. That damaged city's public schools remain closed, but at least eight of its 35 private Catholic schools are already back teaching, less than three months after Katrina. Here's a modest proposal to […]

"Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch"

November 20th, 2005
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That's the name of a left-wing website. It's from the Institute for Southern Studies, which is described as a spawn of the Institute for Policy Studies. Nevertheless, it might have some interesting information.

Salon discovers the worker abuse that "liberals" support

November 19th, 2005
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The failed "liberal" venture known as Salon covers an issue discussed here for over two months: illegal aliens doing rebuilding work: "Gulf Coast slaves" Given all the bad things they discuss in their article, I have to wonder why "liberals" continue to support the situation they describe.
The only way to prevent situations like they describe […]

PBS's NOW fully supports illegal aliens taking rebuilding jobs from American workers

November 18th, 2005
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[In response to a segment from PBS's NOW program (the one formerly featuring far-leftie Bill Moyers) I posted the following in the PBS forums here. Feel free to comment either in this post or over there.]
The 11/18/05 segment about illegal aliens doing rebuilding jobs described the horrible living and working conditions of those illegal laborers.
Perhaps […]