I have been spending some time today checking out the new White House website. Buried under the agenda section, in a subsection entitled “Katrina”, I noticed this little tidbit: President Obama will keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. He and Vice President Biden will take […]
And it’s too late to blame Brownie for it: The Federal Emergency Management Agency manipulated scientific research to play down the danger posed by formaldehyde in trailers issued to hurricane victims, according to an investigation by congressional Democrats. FEMA “ignored, hid and manipulated government research on the potential impact of long-term exposure to formaldehyde” on […]
While New Orleans still sits in ruins, we now find out that George W. Bush rejected almost all international aide: As the winds and water of Hurricane Katrina were receding, presidential confidante Karen Hughes sent a cable from her State Department office to U.S. ambassadors worldwide. Titled “Echo-Chamber Message” — a public relations term for […]
First they get victimized by the Government’s inactions during Katrina. Now they get their Constitutional rights shredded by FEMA: Residents of trailer parks set up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to house hurricane victims in Louisiana aren’t allowed to talk to the press without an official escort, The (Baton Rouge) Advocate reported. In one […]
We raise the national debt. That measure was passed by Congress today and sent to Bush for his signature. The Senate voted Thursday to allow the national debt to swell to nearly $9 trillion, preventing a first-ever default on U.S. Treasury notes. The bill passed by a 52-48 vote. The increase to $9 trillion represents […]
Jack Van Impe, a television evangelist on the Trinity Broadcasting Network blasted Pat Robertson this week over this comments about the needed assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chaves. Not only that, but Mr. Robertson, you are pro-life, and yet you wanted the members of the Supreme Court to die last year, and now the president […]