Way to go, Dover!
In his 139-page ruling, Jones wrote that intelligent design was essentially biblical creationism. He also harshly denounced the Dover Area School Board for its decision to promote intelligent design and said board members repeatedly lied in court about their motives
Apparently the Discovery Institute, a conservative Christian group that supports ID, was very […]
A plan? USA Today wants a plan?
But when it comes to rebuilding a place, federal grants ought to be contingent on hard-headed choices and concrete plans. Four months after Katrina devastated New Orleans, those are in short supply.
That would be dandy, I have to agree. If only it were that easy. The Bayou Buzz this […]
This sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
“These are not true results. These are forged,” charged Khalaf Elayan, secretary general of the National Dialogue Council, one of the main Sunni parties. “We have our numbers that we got through our observers, and they differ from those. We have a lot of support in Baghdad. The numbers they gave […]
Ever wonder where bizarre rumors come from? Here’s something totally oddball that’s floating around out in the blogosphere:
“This crocodile was found in New Orleans swimming down the street.”
Beyond the apparent confusion about crocodiles and alligators (and where they live), exactly which street was this?
Gotta laugh. (I assume that’s the point?)
Note: I’ve been sitting on this […]
Is anybody but me wondering why the Feds have launched a probe into the Orleans levee board, but apparently not yet into the Corps of Engineers?
Not that it will do much good, it looks like:
But, investigators said the corps still has not released the “as-built” drawings — the final set of drawings that show how […]
The T-P published a series this weekend about the NOPD Districts, and their various trials in the city immediately following Katrina. They are all worth reading, but the piece about the 5th District contains an interesting paragraph:
As Katrina bore down on the Gulf Coast that Sunday afternoon, Capt. John Bryson, then the 5th District commander, […]
Try as I might, I know I can’t put myself “in the shoes” of the illegal workers who are highlighted in this morning’s WaPo article. I am absolutely positive I’ve never been so desperate that I’d live on the floor of a flood-destroyed, mold-decaying house and face the hostility and impossibility of their day-to-day realities.
What […]
From the T-P:
As debate continues about how New Orleans should be rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina and whether some areas should get priority, the City Council has made its position clear: All neighborhoods should get equal treatment and should be rebuilt simultaneously.
That is absolutely the correct moral answer, and although the Council’s resolution has zero legal […]
Does your name appear on any of the government’s lists of suspicious people? How would you know?
The Fort Lauderdale protest was deemed not to be a credible threat and a column in the database concludes: “US group exercising constitutional rights.â€? Two-hundred and forty-three other incidents in the database were discounted because they had no connection […]
So many years ago I hate to admit it, I was driving home to New Orleans from Florida. I’d been at Ft. Walton Beach on a college break, and the drive seemed endless. It was spring, with that warm - but not yet hot - heavy Gulf air that barely moves the leaves on the […]
Where does one begin with the levee problems? Every day, more information comes out, and the news is all bad. Which of these is the chicken, and which are eggs?
The Bush administration slashed funding that directly impacted the Corps of Engineers. Thus, improvements long scheduled for the levee systems were not implemented. (Schroeder comprehensively covered […]