Good Work

My goodness, but we certainly took care of folks in New Orleans, didn't we?

Lifespan Of African-Americans In New Orleans Rivals North Koreans

The American Human Development Project released a new report today called A Portrait Of LOUISIANA. The project paints a landscape of Louisiana four years after Katrina, and includes some troubling statistics showing that the average life span for African-Americans living in New Orleans is nearly as low as life expectancy in [...]

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Being Negative

I don't usually like to post two articles from the same blog, but Think Progress has a couple of very important posts.  Rant on, please. These focus on some really BAD radio guys:

Neal Boortz: If New Orleans is rebuilt, the ‘debris that Katrina chased out’ will return.

As the fourth anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster approaches, hate-radio talk show host Neal Boortz mocked President Obama’s pledge to rebuild New Orleans, calling the victims human “debris.” This weekend, President Barack Obama told the New Orleans Times-Picayune that he “remains focused on rebuilding New Orleans and the Gulf Coast,” and anything less “would [...]

Andrew Breitbart Unleashes A Torrent Of Invective Against Sen. Ted Kennedy’s Legacy On Twitter

Early this morning, news broke that Sen. Ted Kennedy had passed away after serving in the U.S. Senate for nearly 50 years. Soon after, conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart began a sustained assault on Kennedy’s memory, tweeting “Rest in Chappaquiddick.” Over the course of the next three hours, Breitbart unapologetically attacked Kennedy, calling him a “villain,” “a [...]

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