My friend Deroy Murdock has a
warm and moving story out on NRO today about the current state
of my home city of New Orleans. Well worth a read. Meanwhile, in
this series of articles and interviews from the Washington Post —
here, and
here, and
here and also
here — the national media finally begin to really pound home
what I’ve been writing
(based on
excellent New Orleans Times-Picayune reporting, of which the
linked article above is just the most recent example, including
this incredibly gut-wrenching interactive
graphic) here for months, namely that the awful tragedy in New
Orleans occurred, first, because of FEDERAL malfeasance, on the
part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which ignored several
warnings that its floodwall designs were dangerously insufficient.
Meanwhile, in the mayor’s race in New Orleans which
culminates with tomorrow’s elections, the embarrassing Mayor
Ray Nagin still has a real chance of winning, multiple sources tell
me, because of
tacit help from the White House.