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Senate Committee FEMA Preparations and Response to Katrina Select Bipartisan Cmte. to Investigate Prep.&Response to Hurr. Katrina Washington, District of Columbia (United States) ID: 189060 - 09/27/2005 - 5:38 - $360.00 Davis, Thomas, U.S. Representative, R-VA Brown, Michael D., Director (2003-2005), Federal Emergency Management Agency Democratic senators are refusing to attend the hearing because they believe that investigation of Hurricane Katrina matters should be referred to an independent commission. Democratic representatives from affected areas will be among the witnesses.

Miami Book Fair International - more idiot liberals!

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Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong (Ret.) makes the case for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Thursday night at 9 PM EDT, C-Span2 will carry a LIVE Bush campaign rally from Portland,Oregon.That should be great.I believe the President will have big Mo for the last weeks of the campaign. Let's all help to GET OUT THE VOTE.

FOR YOUR WEEKEND VIEWING PLEASUREOn Sunday, CSPAN 2 Book TV will air my speech at UC Berkely as its featured program.You can catch it at 1:15 Eastern or 9:00 PM Eastern time. I can safely say that it was the most memorable experience I've had so far in my career.Update: Great photo essay on the UC Berkely event here. (photos of the protestors posters)

Sunday morning at 9AMEST C-Span2 will repeat the program of a discussion of his book Bush Country by John Podheretz, taped in late February at Barnes and Noble in NYC. Podheretz accuses both the left and right of being engaged in a "great forgetting" of the magnitude and implications of 9/11 and says that the way Bush has handled that outrage has made him a president of substance and importance. More enjoyable than his talk, however, is the way Podheretz handles several hecklers - for instance: "the subtitle of my book is 'How Dubya Became a Great President and Drove...

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Judge Bork is discussing his new book Coercing Virtue: the Worldwide Rule of Judges on C-Span 2 now for about the next hour - observes that the worst fear of intellectuals is that control in the US might actually fall into the hands of the common man, and that intellectuals on the bench are the method they are trying to use to stop that from happening.......

Every other sentence seemed to contain the word "Bush". The RATS even had a picture of Dubya behind the panel of 'experts' on stage. Every different group of whatever had a chance to whine, bitch and complain yet not ONE issue was explored, explained or discussed without Dubya being mentioned.

The other night we had a lot of fun watching the CBC's flagship nightly newscast, "The National," which is being simulcast live on C-SPAN ever night during the war. If you think the US mainstream media is biased ... if five minutes of NPR makes you ill ... well, friend, let me tell you, you ain't seen NOTHING yet until you've seen "The National." The CBC does not even make any pretense to objectivity. It is hard, HARD left; it is MASSIVELY anti-American; it is MASSIVELY anti-war. Your jaw will drop if you watch this show with us, I promise...

Live briefing by Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, on C-SPAN2. Started about 2 minutes ago.

This afternoon's three hour interview/call-in show with George Will and Brian Lamb is scheduled for repeat at midnight est on C-Span2. Interesting and thought-provoking discussons on politics, culture, sports, "post-modernity", and on and on.

Michael Rose is scheduled to discuss his book Goodbye, Good Men: How Liberals Brought Corruption to the Catholic Church this afternoon at 4:00 pmedt as part of the BookTV series on C-Span2. Book outlines how "progressives" sought to have Catholic doctrine liberalized and those who would question and challenge articles of faith admitted to the priesthood, eventuating in, among other things, the homosexual/pedophile scandals of this summer.

Charles Murray scheduled to present at 12:20 AM ET on C-Span2

Two and one-half hour panel/Q&A session on "Is Higher Education Compatible with Patriotism?" just concluded on C-Span2 but will be repeated at 5:20 AMEDT. Panel was sponsored by the pretty-much-conservative National Association of Scholars. A promising tone was set by the moderator, Gertrude Himmelfarb, who began by observing that the title of the program brought to mind a more fundamental question - "Is Higher Education Compatible with Education?" - then answered her own question - "No". A couple of like-minded speakers including Walter Berns followed, but unfortunately, for balance apparently, the panel also included a couple of leftwingers - William...

Heineman discusses his new book Throw Your Bodies on the Wheel: Student Revolts of the 1960's in a repeat broadcast at 9:50 PM EDT on C-Span2. He debunks some of the myths of the student movement - for instance, although supposedly broadly based, at it's height the movement included only about fifteen percent of all college students in its ranks. At Columbia University where about one-third of the students were involved in the movement to occupy school buildings, two-thirds opposed the activity and many volunteered to New York City police to help go in and drive the protesters out. Heineman...

Coming up in a few minutes on C-SPAN2 * "Live" is used loosely.