Rita, unfortunately, acted just like her bigger cousin Katrina in wiping structures along miles of coastline along her eastern side, where the storm surge is the greatest. The target this time was Louisiana’s Bayou region. At its worst, Rita behaved like a viciously effective bulldozer, scraping away everything it met, scraping away places such as […]

Sorry for being out of pocket folks. Family and work were filling my days recently. Rita and Katrina were very powerful storms which left a lot of destruction in their wakes. America will band together to assist the ravaged areas and our neighbors in need. The question is whether the media-formally-known-as-mainstream and the talking heads […]

Most likely there will only be time for the Fly By each day for the next three days – if that. Lots and lots of wonderful meetings to support. The big news this morning is North Korea claiming it is ready to dump its nuclear weapons program. Every major newspaper and punidt will be discussing […]

Looks like sanity (or is it reality) is coming back to New Orleans Mayor Nagin as health and environmental officials state the obvious: Business owners trickled into New Orleans on Saturday, poking through glass shards and musty offices as the head of the federal relief effort warned in the strongest terms yet that the city […]

I have a post up on Bush’s excellent speech here for those who are interested. Howard Kurtz has a round up of the liberal nags media reactions here. Interesting poll out showing two thirds of the New Orleans evacuees do not plan to return. Who would blame them after their city and state government left […]

As some who have read my background know I am a private contractor working for NASA, and I really see a lot of satellite imagery. When I saw the NOAA picture of Katrina as it was coming up the Gulf of Mexico to Louisiana I stated then this would be the storm of the century. […]

There was one miracle rescue in New Orleans today when a man who had starved for 16 days was finally rescued. Score one for the rescuers. President Bush took responsibility for the Federal response to Katrina yesterday, which means he will get the credit for all that went wrong and all that went right. The […]

I was all interested in the filibuster showdown and how it would play out, which is how I became an early member of the Coalition of The Chillin’. But Roberts seems to be sailing through confirmation, and even Dan Balz of the Washington Post sees it happening: The first day of confirmation hearings for Judge […]

I have decided to start the “Fly By” posts, which will be a linkfest of interesting articles and posts for the day without a lot of commentary from myself. So, here is the first ‘Fly By’: Tony Blankley has the first of a three part series on Fanatical Islam, where it is headed and what […]