For a while after the bombings in Britain, it looked like the dangerous multiculturalist mindset British elites have advocated for decades would be pushed aside for a strong sense of British nationalism.  But if this is any indication, Britain’s famed stiff upper lip is now all a-quiver, beaded with sweat at the prospect of offending its tormentors, who have gathered in its cities like tumors. Where have you gone, Maggie

Reviewing previous responses by the feds to natural disasters, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Jack Kelly argues that FEMA’s response actually improved for Hurricane Katrina—which devastated an area larger than Kansas or Utah or Idaho or Minnesota (and as large as Great Britain): It is settled wisdom among journalists that the federal response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina was unconscionably slow. “Mr. Bush’s performance last week will rank as one

For a little over a week now, I’ve been stressing the need for honest analysis of the emergency management breakdown we witnessed in NOLA, arguing time and again that should we truly wish to address the systemic coordination problems between local, state, and federal governments with respect to emergency response, we need to be able to locate those problems, identify them by name, and correct them. …All of which seems

Ace and Karol are both hosting threads dedicated to listing the most overrated movies of all time.  Unfortunately, their readers have drifted into self-parody, including in the mix such unassailable titles as Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction, and Caddyshack. Now, long-time readers of this site know how much I dig ‘70s cinema; so when Ace listed among his choices for most overrated The Exorcist, Dirty Harry, Network, and others…well, I was

The New York Times—amid re-“reporting” some already discredited boilerplate that blames a shortage of LA Guard troops in NO on Iraq deployment, and blames FEMA for not sending in more personnel before the hurricane hit (so that presumably they, too, could find their resources under 15 feet of water)—does let slip this interesting tidbit: When the water rose, the state began scrambling to find buses. Officials pleaded with various parishes

Billy Joel:  “Well, we lived for a while in a very nice style, but it’s always the same in the end.  We got a divorce as a matter of course and we parted the closest of friends.  Then the King and the Queen went back to the Green, but you can never go back there again –” Former supermodel Christie Brinkley: “– Wait a minute, pal. I had no problem

“Court: ‘Dirty Bomb’ Suspect Can Be Held”: A federal appeals court Friday sided with the Bush administration and reversed a judge’s order that the government charge or free “dirty bomb” suspect Jose Padilla. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the president has the authority to detain a U.S. citizen closely associated with al Qaida. Notes Bryan Preston at JunkYardBlog, “Of course he does.

From the Washington Post: City officials said Friday that the death toll from Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath may be far lower than originally feared, as troops and police shifted their attention from rescue of the living to recovery of those who died here in the past 11 days. The mayor had warned previously that the number of dead in New Orleans could be as many as 10,000, but other

Novelist Stephen Elliot, writing at The Huffington Post, takes a “progressive” look at Wal-Mart’s hurricane relief efforts and decides (surprise!) that it’s just not socialist enough for his tastes: Now think about this. Wal-Mart’s sales in for 2003 were $245 Billion. Lee Scott, The CEO of Wal-Mart receives an annual paycheck of $30 million, twice what the company donated to the Bush-Clinton Katrina fund. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million associates, the

…has a honkin’ new website and a spirited call to arms: The time has come. It’s time to stay on point. The blogs need to unite around a rallying cry of “IMPEACH BUSH.” As of this post, the term “impeach bush” is the third most popular search term at Technocrati. President Bush has totally and utterly failed the American people. Almost every day we are presented with further proof why