Liberal Talk Radio

Everyone knows that income disparity in the U.S. is widening as the rich just get richer, which makes folks nervous about long-term societal stability.
But how exactly does this play out in the world of entertainment? Actually, it’s worse than you think:
Ja Rule stopped by a party at Shaquille O’Neal’s mansion in Miami Beach the [...]

Calling Steven Levitt . . . add natural disasters to the list of factors influencing the decline in crime! So simple, it’s brilliant:
On a single day last June in Pigeon Town and Hollygrove, impoverished neighborhoods of worn frame houses at the city’s western edge, four men were killed, adding to the eight already slain there [...]

Many of us have been wondering how long ’till the Iraq-enrinched cronies of Cheney & Co. would get their share of the New Orleans reconstruction pie. About two weeks, apparently. Blackwater private security forces have been deployed en masse to patrol New Orleans.
In fairness, there aren’t many companies in the world that can [...]

Nice article in Sunday’s NYT Business section by Ben Stein on conservation post-Katrina. He writes:
Second, we stand on the edge of an energy crisis. In this crisis, I think of two great sayings. One is an economics axiom, first stated to me by Peter M. Flanigan - a former high honcho of Dillon, Read; [...]

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Josh Marshall has a full rundown on the various implications of this NY Times article, which seems to indicate that while hurricane victims were dying on national television, the Justice Department was debating the fine points of posse commitatus and worrying about whether it would look good to take command from a female governor. This [...]

This timeline tells you all you need to know about the Hurricane and the government’s response. Read it and weep. And yes, you can start playing the blame game.
P.S.: looking over my posts from last night, I think I need to institute a rule: no blogging after drinking. I need a Movable [...]

FEMA is about to give $2,000 debit cards to the victims of Hurricane Katrina to help purchase essentials. The Governor of Alaska is concerned:
Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski, a Republican, said he had concerns about the potential for abuse.
“That’s a lot of money. The question is how do you separate the needy from those who [...]

By the way, while I’m knee-deep in partisan sniping, can anyone doubt that President Kerry would have handled this situation better? At the very least, there’s no doubt he would have been on the ground in New Orleans almost immediately. Kerry’s never better than when there’s a crisis.
As Bill Clinton said [...]

What if Katrina had been a terrorist attack? Would we have known better how to respond? Had someone unleashed WMD in the city of New Orleans, many of the same problems would have happened: no electricity, thousands of refugees, a toxic city. So what would our response have been? would it have [...]

I watched the President get “briefed” this morning in a hangar in Louisiana by a member of the National Guard. It was clearly a staged photo-op to show that he was in control of the situation there, albeit 5 days after the fact. Perusing the morning news shows, it became clear to me [...]