In a well-written account by two communist San Francisco EMS workers on their survival of Hurricane Katrina and Earthquake Government, one realizes something very ironic. In the wake of compounding disasters, ordinary people spontaneously kept a whole city fed,...

I'm watching the City Attorney of New Orleans talking specifically about evacuating the city. She just said something to the effect that "At this time there have been no forced evacuations. Force is not being used." Well, then who was that frail old lady who was...

From that glorious libertopia the liberventionists promised us:Ukraine's "orange revolution" has lost its lustre, with President Viktor Yushchenko sacking his entire government after its own members accused one another of sleaze, cronyism and debilitating infighting....

Why did FEMA block Wal-Mart shipments of water to the New Orleans area? Why did FEMA block fuel shipments to the New Orleans area? Why did FEMA cut emergency communication lines from the New Orleans area? Why wouldn't FEMA let the Red Cross deliver food to the New...

Steven Plaut, wrong once more. UPDATE: A fan of Plaut's splits hairs in his defense. Give it a rest. If you refer simply to "al-Jazeera," the implication is that you're referring to the TV network or its Web site. To borrow one of Glenn Reynolds' stock phrases, Plaut...

Christopher Hitchens:What I cannot understand is why the people of Baghdad and Basra should be punished for a meteorological catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. We should get out and leave them to their own devices. We need the stuff at home, goddamn it. This has all...

As has always been the case, bigger government with its limitless bureaucracy only results in bumbling on a much grander and more expensive scale. From the Washington Post today: "Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area," Aaron Broussard,...

The weird get going – straight to David Horowitz. And what are the prerequisites for becoming one of Horowitz's shock troops? 1) Violent fanaticism 2) Schizophrenia Turns out Michael Lopez-Calderon, a public school teacher in Maryland who recently issued a death...

WWLTV.com | News for New Orleans, Louisiana | Local News 3:32 P.M. Ben Morris, Slidell mayor: We are still hampered by some of the most stupid, idiotic regulations by FEMA. They have turned away generators, we've heard that they've gone around seizing equipment from...

Rightie bloggers are trying to put a positive spin on the appalling pictures coming out of New Orleans, the most striking features of which are the unbroken seas of black faces staring at the cameras from the hellish, stinking concentration camps at the Superdome and...