RIP, Justice Rehnquist
The Associated Press this evening is reporting that US Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist passed away at his Virginia home today. He was diagnosed with thyroid cancer last October.
As US struggles with Katrina, the world looks on
I was particularly struck by a quote I read in a Reuters article from someone in Sri Lanka who compared the post-tsunami atmosphere there with post-Katrina atmososphere in New Orleans. From the article:
About those levees
There’s been a lot of Bush-blaming going on in the last week by the usual suspects about the fact that funding for the US Army Corps of Engineers had been decreased by a substantial amount last year in favor of pumping more money into the Iraq war effort. The conclusion drawn from that from that same crowd is that if Bush hadn’t have called for the decrease in funding for the US ACE, the levees that burst earlier this week after Hurricane Katrina’s rampage would have been upgraded quickly so as to avoid the exact scenario that sadly happened in New Orleans on Monday.
Media pushes “white guilt” angle
Thursday I asked the question: Looting: Is it as bad in Mississippi as it is in Louisiana? I went on to ask more: