• The Myths of Hurricane Katrina - Myth Number Two: “New Orleans” and “the Gulf Coast” are synonymous.
• Bush’s Lost Iraqi Election - The CIA had a plan to counter Iran’s meddling in the 2005 vote, but Washington blinked.
• The Myths of Hurricane Katrina - Myth number one: A lack of federal money

• The Myths of Hurricane Katrina - Myth Number Two: “New Orleans” and “the Gulf Coast” are synonymous.
• Bush’s Lost Iraqi Election - The CIA had a plan to counter Iran’s meddling in the 2005 vote, but Washington blinked.
• The Myths of Hurricane Katrina - Myth number one: A lack of federal money

• The Myths of Hurricane Katrina - Myth Number Two: “New Orleans” and “the Gulf Coast” are synonymous.
• Bush’s Lost Iraqi Election - The CIA had a plan to counter Iran’s meddling in the 2005 vote, but Washington blinked.
• The Myths of Hurricane Katrina - Myth number one: A lack of federal money

• The Myths of Hurricane Katrina - Myth Number Two: “New Orleans” and “the Gulf Coast” are synonymous.
• Bush’s Lost Iraqi Election - The CIA had a plan to counter Iran’s meddling in the 2005 vote, but Washington blinked.
• The Myths of Hurricane Katrina - Myth number one: A lack of federal money

• Reformation Leader - Bobby Jindal is the GOP?s Cajun hope.
• Plan for citywide wireless Internet dropped after negotiations bog down - Firms didn’t want costs solely on them
• Leading Clinton Donor Stays Below the Radar - Who is Norman Hsu?
• Democratic fundraiser is a fugitive in plain sight - California authorities have sought businessman Norman Hsu for 15 years. Since 2004, he has carved out a place of honor raising cash for such candidates as Hillary Rodham Clinton.
• Socialize Medicine, One Step at a Time - It’s for the children.
• Flickr: Photos from miami fever -

• Majors Considering Helmets for Coaches - The Pussification of America continues…
• Safest Seat on a Plane - Popular Mechanics investigates how to survive a crash.
• To Woo Europeans, McDonald?s Goes Upscale - The company?s strategy of remodeling its restaurants and tailoring its menu options is paying off in Europe.
• Where Is America’s Most Influential Journalist, Matt Drudge, Coming From? - A profile in New York Magazine.
• Terror Suspect List Yields Few Arrests - The government’s terrorist screening database flagged Americans and foreigners as suspected terrorists almost 20,000 times last year. But only a small fraction of those questioned were arrested or denied entry into the United States, raising concerns amon
• What Sarkozy Won’t Change - American conservatives should seek happy harbingers elsewhere.
• Rereading Vietnam - The Vietnam analogy looms ever larger in the debate over Iraq, but the U.S. military has memories of that conflict that the public doesn’t.
• License to Kill Jobs - State certification boards are supposed to help consumers. They often stifle competition instead.
• As Counsel, Thompson Walked Capital?s Fine Line - Fred D. Thompson hopes that his work as an investigator of wrongdoing will help propel him to the presidency.
• Rep. Flake’s mission: Be a bug in their earmarks - The Republican doesn’t manage to kill many pork projects, but his nagging does put his colleagues in Congress on the spot.
• Migrants fleeing as hiring law nears - Just as predicted: crack down on employers, the jobs will dry up, and illegal immigrats will go back home.

• Gun Control’s Twisted Outcome - Restricting firearms has helped make England more crime-ridden than the U.S.
• Weapons sell for just £50 as suspects and victims grow ever younger - Official figures show that although Britain has some of the toughest anti-gun laws in the world, firearm use in crime has risen steadily.
• ACLU sues DEA on behalf of truck whose money was seized - DEA steals $24,000 from man, says he has to prove it is was his and not illegal.
• UK cancer survival rate lowest in Europe - Cancer experts blamed late diagnosis and long waiting lists. The United States tops the list of cancer survival.

• The Human Bomb - The Sarkozy regime begins.
• Facebook Grows Up - Can It Stay Relevant?
• Another Vietnam? - President Bush’s analogy to Iraq is not inaccurate, just incomplete.
• Why Democrats dread hearing the V-word - Vietnam: a lesson in fouling up the endgame
• Romney’s Federal Prescription - Health Plan Relies on Tax Incentives, Not Massachusetts’ Mandates
• Affirmative Action Backfires - There are fewer black attorneys today than there would have been if law schools had practiced color-blind admissions.

• Debates that say something - The former speaker has a plan to get past the talking points.
• Maroons Rush In - Criticism of the president?s Vietnam analogy takes Chutzpah.
• Returning to Cambodia - Killing fields of media fallacies.
• HBO?s Rivals Say It Has Stumbled, Though Catching Up Is Tough - Has HBO, the pay-television channel stocked with so many outstanding shows that it declared itself in a category all its own ? as in ?It?s not TV, it?s HBO? ? finally tumbled from its pedestal of prestige?
• A Return to That Drop-Dead Year 1960 - To a style aficionado, ?Mad Men? is that rare TV show in which an ashtray, a lipstick or an aerosol tin gets star treatment.
• The Report the CIA Didn’t Want You to See - Buried in the files for more than two years, a withering internal assessment of pre 9/11 intelligence failures is finally made public.

gra•va•men |grəˈvāmən|noun( pl. -vam•i•na |-ˈvamənə|) chiefly Law
the essence or most serious part of a complaint or accusation.
• a grievance.

ORIGIN early 17th cent.(as an ecclesiastical term denoting formal presentation of a grievance): from late Latin, literally ‘physical inconvenience,’ from Latin gravare ‘to load,’ from gravis ‘heavy.’