I will be taking Labor Day off, so RWN will not return until Tuesday. Until then, enjoy the links to other blogs below and consider this an open thread. Have a great week-end! The Baseball Crank Conservative Outpost The Foretelling Of A Deadly Disaster In New Orleans. Originally Published On Dec. 1, 2001 Nicole Gelinas: […]

— As each day passes, the staggering incompetence of the local government in New Orleans becomes more and more glaringly apparent. From the very beginning, it was obvious that they were either unwilling or unable to enforce order after the hurricane. Now, it has also become apparent that they had massive numbers of buses that […]

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Dennis Hastert has gotten a lot of flack for some comments he made about New Orleans: “It makes no sense to spend billions of dollars to rebuild a city that’s seven feet under sea level, House Speaker Dennis Hastert said of federal assistance for hurricane-devastated New Orleans. “It looks like a lot of that place […]

In these days and times, when you actually have people claiming that to be compassionate, you’ve got to be pro-looting, I’d say that opposing price gouging laws would definitely be considered an “alternative view.” But, rising prices caused by a disaster are nothing more than the result of supply and demand. If the demand for […]

Fears increased today among hundreds of thousands of refugees from the hurricane-ravaged gulf coast as they faced a Labor Day weekend with little hope of an eloquent speech from President George Bush. As today’s New York Times editorial indicated, the president “gave one of the worst speeches of his life yesterday, especially given the level […]

Well, this kills another meme going around on the left…. “The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Thursday that a lack of funding for hurricane-protection projects around New Orleans did not contribute to the disastrous flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina. In a telephone interview with reporters, corps officials said that although portions of the flood-protection […]

Apparently they don’t make those bleeding heart liberals like they used to… “I’m not going to post the piece I started to write. My original reaction to the Katrina catastrophe was going to be: “NOT ONE DIME.” For an hour or so, I contemplated the idea of turning it into a crusade: No-one in the […]

Hurricane Katrina Katrina Damage Could Hit $50 Billion Hastert Questions Rebuilding New Orleans Gunmen Target Medical Convoy Relief Workers Confront ‘Urban Warfare’. Violence Disrupts Evacuation, Rescue Efforts In New Orleans

This is just surreal… “Police say storm victims are being raped and beaten inside the New Orleans Convention Center. About 15,200 people who had taken shelter at the convention center to await buses grew increasingly hostile. Police Chief Eddie Compass says he sent in 88 officers to quell the situation at the building, but they […]

“This President is never gonna do the right thing. I think somewhere deep down inside him he takes a lot of joy about losing people, if he thinks they vote Democrat or if he thinks they’re poor, or if he thinks they’re in a blue state, whatever his reasons are not to rescue those people…” […]

At the Drudge Report, there’s a big, splashy headline that says, “BUSH VOWS TO SAVE NEW ORLEANS.” Here’s a basic question that needs to be asked: should we “save” New Orleans? Keep in mind that the damage done to New Orleans isn’t a surprise. To the contrary, people have known for decades that the city […]

Here’s a fascinatingly nutty take on hurricane Katrina: it’s God’s revenge for America’s support of Sharon’s plan to remove the Jews from Gaza. No, seriously! Here’s an explanation from a kook named Stan Goodenough at a website called Jerusalem Newswire (which incidentally, I’ve never heard of): “Yesterday, we in Israel watched as American officials, including […]

In her latest column, Peggy Noonan defends looting for necessities, but she thinks looters stealing non-essentials should be shot. From my perspective, that’s sort of a “glass half-full” sort of argument. But, let’s focus on the empty half of the glass. From Noonan’s column: “There seems to be some confusion in terms of terminology on […]

“Katrina has nothing to do with global warming. Nothing. It has everything to do with the immense forces of nature that have been unleashed many, many times before and the inability of humans, even the most brilliant engineers, to tame these forces. Giant hurricanes are rare, but they are not new. And they are not […]

If you’re looking to donate some money to help the victims of hurricane Katrina, may I suggest the Salvation Army? They’re a well known, reputable charity and they actually hand out 83 cents out of every dollar, so you know they’re not frittering away a lot of money on overhead. So, if you’re looking to […]

Hurricane Katrina Katrina May Have Killed Thousands New Orleans Mayor: “We Are Looking At 12 To 16 Weeks Before People Can Come In” Officials Helpless Against Looters New Orleans Declares Martial Law To Crack Down On Looters Levee Repair Work Has Yet To Begin. Engineers Plan To Intentionally Breach Some New Orleans Floodwalls At Least […]

My buddies over at Ankle Biting Pundits ran across what appeared to be quite a scoop from Cindy Sheehan. In Cindy Sheehan’s “Last Post From Crawford,” she posted “thank-you’s” to a number of politicians. Most of them were standard, run-of-the-mill, ultra-lefties. However, there was one name that really stood out… “George Bush for not meeting […]

Looting stores for any reason, for food, for water, for diapers, for baby food, is wrong and it should not be condoned. There are very good reasons for that: — Looting is theft of somebody’s else’s goods pure and simple. That’s not OK even after a hurricane. — Usually, a window or door has to […]

Just because I find this line of thinking to be surprisingly perverse, even for a bunch of liberals at the DU, here are more quotes from patrons of the Democratic Underground who’ve spoken out in favor of looting: manic expression: 1.) Getting necessities, or very near necessities (as in having something to wipe their asses […]

Because I’m so fair and balanced, I’d like to give you more perspective on the liberal view of hurricane Katrina. I know that you may be surprised that there’s “hurricane spin,” but that seems like an apt description of “Put the N*ggers in the Superdome: Part II” by someone called “Flip Floss.” This post is […]

Make sure to check out my other blog, Conservative Grapevine, for some of the best stories from around the blogosphere like: — Rob’s 80 year old grandfather tells a great Patton story — Rall savages Sheehan? That’s a surprise — SGT. C was shot through the throat. “He was offered the opportunity to fly to […]

Brace yourselves, folks, because this IS NOT satire, although it may be a sign of a apocalypse: “A secondary school is to allow pupils to swear at teachers – as long as they don’t do so more than five times in a lesson. A running tally of how many times the f-word has been used […]

Hurricane Katrina Hundreds Feared Dead On Storm-Ravaged U.S. Coast New Orleans Filling With Floodwaters Due To Breached Levee (Free Wapo Reg Req) Katrina Damage May Bring $26b In Claims Looting Takes Place In View Of La. Police (Don’t They Issue Them Guns?) Some Police Officers And Firefighters Join In Looting (They Deserve To Be Hung) […]

Mark Tapscott wrote a generally sensible column about his frustration with Republicans in Washington who aren’t sticking to conservative principles. Unfortunately, Tapscott titled the column: “Is it time for conservatives to dump the GOP?“ Oh, oh, man does that title just grate on me. “Is it time for conservatives to dump the GOP?” Isn’t that […]

derby378: Hurricane Katrina proves that Bush must be IMPEACHED, and NOW. Just watch the FReepers howl: “Do the DUmmies think Bush can prevent hurricanes? Will they claim he LIHOP’ed Katrina like they claim he LIHOP’ed 9/11?” No President can prevent a hurricane, but a competent President can prepare for the inevitable so that, when a […]

1) Some people are saying that Iraq’s Constitution will lead to a theocracy. Is that true? Religion does play a more substantial role in Iraq’s Constitution than it does in our Constitution here in the United States. However, not only does the Iraqi Constitution not create a theocracy, it has numerous clauses that guarantee the […]

So, I’m headed over to the Democratic Underground to look for threads blaming George Bush for hurricane Katrina. I know that might sound a bit odd, but lefties have blamed Bush for absolutely everything under the sun at one time or another, so why should Hurricane Katrina be any different? But, when I arrived at […]

Scalia spoke to students at Chapman University and he sure didn’t hold back on what he thought about having the courts decide matters better left to elected legislators. Speaking before a packed auditorium, Scalia said he was saddened to see the U.S. Supreme Court deciding moral issues not addressed in the Constitution, such as abortion, […]

Domestic Katrina Floods Gulf States, Killing 55 “The City Of New Orleans Is In A State Of Devastation. We Probably Have 80 Percent Of Our City Underwater. With Some Sections Of Our City, The Water Is As Deep As 20 Feet” Insurers Estimate Damage At $9 Billion, Among Costliest U.S. Storms On Record (Free NYT […]