First, President Obama turned his back on the ice storm victims in Kentucky, and now there’s not a dime of stimulus money being made available to help rebuild The Big Easy. And Obama isn’t being challenged on this? What hypocrisy!
The economic stimulus signed by President Barack Obama will spread billions of dollars across the country [...]
Archive for the 'Hurricane Katrina' Category
How dare he!
February 19, 2009Compassionate liberals desperately want Gustav to level New Orleans
September 1, 2008As I mentioned a couple of days ago, Democrats would offer New Orleans as a sacrifice to Mother Nature if they knew they would benefit politically as a result. You can almost hear them praying for God to steer this thing right into the Big Easy today, the start of the Republican convention, so the [...]
The left’s concern for the victims of Hurricane Katrina
June 10, 2008I have long contended that Democrats made such a fuss about Hurricane Katrina was rooted not in its compassion for the victims, but merely to score political points against George W. Bush by blaming him for something that was in no way his doing. Now we have proof that that was indeed the case. From [...]
An insatiable sense of entitlement
December 26, 2007Hurricane Katrina revealed liberalism at its filthiest. New Orleans is a city owned and operated lock, stock, and barrel by Democrats, and where Democrats are in charge, you can bet there’s a complex web of public assistance. Such is New Orleans, where the hurricane uncovered a large population of citizens who are so dependent on [...]
Unpublished column on Hurricane Katrina, two years later
September 5, 2007It has been two years since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, and Democrats are still trying to gain political points from that disaster.
Let’s begin with Barack Obama, who was in the Big Easy last Sunday to deliver a sermon, or a political speech, depending on your perspective.
Speaking at the First Emmanuel Baptist Church, Senator [...]
Two years after Katrina
August 29, 2007With the Democrats still trying to get political mileage out of Hurricane Katrina, Time magazine has a piece on racial strife that is tearing that city apart.
Racial tension is certainly not unique to New Orleans. And there are groups and individuals who are reaching across color lines here post-Katrina, as they did before the storm. [...]
The blank check
June 13, 2006The Government Accounting Office reports that the federal government shelled out $1.4 billion in bogus Hurricane Katrina aid. That’s money you and I earned, and illustrates the fallacy of signing away a black check in the face of demands and criticism. It’s too bad cooler heads didn’t prevail when Congress was wrapping up that present.
Can’t tell a natural disaster from a hole in the wall
March 3, 2006I’ve enjoyed watching the liberals over at Nashville Is Talking blame President Bush for the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. This is what’s called “shooting blanks.” Look, the mayor of New Orleans is a Democrat and the governor of Louisiana is a Democrat. Louisiana is still controlled by Democrats. Things like this should never happen where [...]
The problem is a lack of personal responsibility
February 15, 2006The government is blaming the government for “the deaths and suffering of thousands of Hurricane Katrina’s victims.” The government makes a convenient scapegoat, but the deaths and suffering could have been avoided if people didn’t put their faith and trust in the government to bail them out of harm, and instead took responsibility for their [...]
Post-Katrina homeschooling
October 10, 2005A reader sent me this link in which parents have become “makeshift teachers” in Louisiana.
Louisiana has done its best to encourage parents not to leave the public school system, urging them instead to enroll in schools wherever they’ve landed, said Meg Casper, a spokeswoman for the state Education Department. The East Baton Rouge Parish district, [...]
Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “Katrina the best of times, worst of times”
September 16, 2005One can honestly say with respect to the carnage of Hurricane Katrina that “It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.” In the hours and days following the storm, we discovered just how bad it could be. It seemed the disaster had brought out the worst in everyone, with looting, stealing, [...]
Democrats remind us why they’re the minority party
September 12, 2005The Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson, founder and president of the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny, had this to say about racism and the response to Hurricane Katrina:
The truth is black people died, not because of President Bush or racism, they died because of their unhealthy dependence on the government and the incompetence of Mayor [...]
Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “President not to blame for hurricane”
September 7, 2005There used to be a time in America when natural disasters were seen as natural disasters. But that time is fading. We have arrived at the place where we no longer view natural disasters, and the human suffering that invariably follows, as “acts of God.” Indeed, once upon a time phenomena such as Hurricane Katrina [...]
What’s poverty got to do with it?
September 6, 2005A lot, if you read Bob Krumm. And he’s right. Poverty IS the problem. The massive destruction in New Orleans has rendered an impressive human response almost impotent — at least in the hours and days immediately following the disaster. Even the government can only do so much. And when you have such a large [...]
A few additional thoughts on Hurricane Katrina
September 6, 20051. Have we come to the point that we no longer view natural disasters as natural disasters? It used to be that hurricanes and other “acts of God” — and the human suffering that invariably follows — were simply attributed to unavoidable, unpreventable natural occurrences, and the focus was spent on relieving the human suffering. [...]
