Hurricane Katrina

Kanye West's recent statements make him appear like a permanent resident of the Sunken Place. The hip-hop giant recently got back on Trump's favorite social media outlet to send out a series of missives that have baffled his fanbase, most notably his praise for Candace Owens, an ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 9, 2018

One of the major failures of the Bush administration was FEMA's inability to adequately respond to Hurricane Katrina. Bush had made signifiant cuts to the organization before the storm hit and hired the woefully inept and deeply unqualified Michael Brown to head it. The ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

The best thing George W. Bush did in his political career was to stay the fuck away from the limelight after his unfathomably disastrous presidency.  Having decimated the entire global economy and sent half the Western world into two un-winnable conflicts in the Middle East that ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

When a vigil for Michael Brown turned into looting on Sunday night, the indignation among white conservatives was entirely predictable. As inexcusable as using someone's death as a reason vandalize and steal is, the longstanding white obsession with black looting says a lot ...read more

• By Michael Luciano
  Feb 17, 2016

During a 2011 Republican debate Mitt Romney outlined his steadfast belief that the function of government should be outsourced to the for profit industry whenever possible. When asked about FEMA, the organization that disastrously handled Hurricane Katrina after the Bush ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 18, 2016

By Bob Cesca: There are two bits of Republican fiscal hooey that have been injected into the national debate since I posted a two-parter here about the party's lies regarding the deficit and the debt. So now it becomes a three-parter. Both items of aforementioned hooey are ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018