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John McCain's ''Pander To Anyone I Can Think Of'' tour has made a particularly shameless stop in New Orleans. In the still-devastated Lower Ninth Ward, the poorest and most heavily damaged area of the city, McCain had the gall to say this:
''Never again will a disaster of this nature be handled in the terrible and disgraceful way it's been ...
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This is astonishing:
New satellite imaging has revealed that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita produced the largest single forestry disaster on record in America -- an essentially unreported ecological catastrophe that killed or severely damaged some 320 million trees in Mississippi and Louisiana.
The die-off, caused initially by wind and later by ...
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First, the rigged bid:
A review of documents by The Associated Press found that when the Army Corps of Engineers solicited bids for drainage pumps for New Orleans, it copied the specifications -- typos and all -- from the catalog of the manufacturer that ultimately won the $32 million contract.
Then, the money quote:
MWI [the manufacturer ...
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