With another cop walking free after killing a person, our country is searching for answers. Perhaps that answer isn't all that complicated.
Seems like we might have the start of a defense growing for Darren Wilson, the officer that gunned down and unarmed black teen in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri.
Here's a story that really puts some perspective on what is happening in Ferguson right now.
Is the President an idiot? That was the question that caused a bunch of heat when Joe Scarborough asked it a couple of months ago. Well consider Bush’s latest signing statement and then do the math: President Bush this week asserted that he has the executive authority to disobey a new law in which Congress […]
Michael Brown, George Bush and Mark Foley touring damage from Katrina. (h/t Josh)
This should send a real message to the people whose lives were changed last year by Katrina. Instead of worrying about the fact that 1000s of U.S. citizens were losing their lives while hundreds of thousands had lost their homes, the White House instead worried about who was taking the blame for the failures the […]
Looks like Captain Duct Tape and Plastic could become the permanent head of FEMA: With hurricane season two months away, President George W. Bush is likely to nominate the acting director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, David Paulison, as his permanent choice to head the agency, a Republican official said on Sunday. Paulison, a […]
Following Michael Brown’s very public criticism of Michael Chertoff, rumors are flying that Chertoff’s future is as dismal as Brown’s was immediately following Katrina. The source of that rumor is the ultra-conservative Human Events. As one source acquainted with the former federal prosecutor and U.S. appellate judge said under promise of anonymity, “They will give […]
The Associated Press has now uncovered even more facts surrounding the days leading up to Katrina.  In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, risk lives in New Orleans’ Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential […]
WOW! The White House cited failures by the Homeland Security Department and other agencies in planning, communications and leadership in a report on Hurricane Katrina Thursday and proposed a broad reworking of how the government would respond to the next catastrophe. The 228-page report by White House homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend urges changes […]