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Katrina Aftermath: Recriminations, Rancor and Racial Divisions Don’t Help Us Learn from Our Mistakes

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Annelie O'Neal Roche, who sent dispatches to this blog while working in New Orleans with her National Guard unit during the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (see here, here, hereand here), has some thoughts about the Katrina "blame game" currently ...
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Ray Nagin’s Remarks

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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has apologized for remarks he made yesterday in which he appeared A) to be channeling the Lord a la Pat Robertson, and B) doing so in the service of racial segregation. Not the best combination ...
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Blacks Repudiate Belafonte

Project 21 has a new press release out criticizing Harry Belafonte. It begins: With former singing star Harry Belafonte's anti-American rhetoric apparently increasing in fervor, members of the black leadership network Project 21 call upon prominent Americans - especially those ...
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Washington Post Radio

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Proving once again that it is comfortable with letting its writers pontificate without the intervention of fact-checkers and editors, the Washington Post announces the creation of a Washington Post radio station, which it will use to promote itself ...
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That Must Be Why Geraldo Rivera Cried on the Air

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In letters to Editor and Publisher, writers who seem suspiciously like paid journalists complain that the false "miners are rescued story" is not the news media's fault. The Governor made them do it. That must be why Geraldo Rivera appeared ...
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Washington Post: “The Mistake Was Not Ours” (And Other Excuses from the Press)

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Here's a story from Editor and Publisher in which some editors apologize for false coverage of the miner story, while others defend their inaccurate reporting. Notice in these snippets (the E&P article has more) that the "prestige newspapers" seem less ...
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Congressional Black Caucus Katrina Relief Funds Remain Undisbursed

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Mychal Massie hopes folks will join A. M. Siriano in sending letters to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, asking the Caucus to distribute the reported estimated $400,000 it received in donations to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. Marc Morano of ...
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What Does A “Reputable Scientist” Do Instead?

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A Time story by Michael Lemonick about Woo Suk Hwang's apparently-fraudulent stem cell research, The Rise and Fall of the Cloning King, contains this paragraph: In order to clone an adult, you need to put one of its cells into ...
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Newsletter: National Center in the News Newsletter Winter 2006

Message from David and Amy Ridenour If success can be measured by how much one drives the liberals up a wall… …our programs are very successful indeed. In recent months, your National Center for Public Policy Research has been attacked ...
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Talking Points on Social Security: Trust Fund? What Trust Fund?

Americans may believe that when they pay their Social Security taxes, the federal government sets that money aside to finance their public pension benefits. Don't bet on it. In fact, Uncle Sam immediately pays most of that money to today's ...
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