1455 I'm with Amy on this one

Conservatives don't walk lock-step (or synchronize swim right now) like some other persuasions. I'm with Amy, who's been fairly restrained in writing about Katrina. Hewitt must be sniffing too much levee sewage. Sometimes you just need a woman to step in and open a window for some fresh air.

"I wouldn't follow Hugh Hewitt's advice, as reported by The Paragraph Farmer, to "Establish a Center for the Study of Mass Casualty Events at Tulane University in New Orleans." If I have a long-term suggestion for Tulane University in New Orleans, it is this: Move. A "Center for the Study of Mass Casualty Events" based in a city that is a sitting duck for mass casualty events every 100-200 years (there could just as easily be another one next month as in 2017 or 2077 or 2111 or any year you pick out of a hat) is a perversity. One is either in favor of reducing mass casualty events or one is not. (If such a center were to be established, it could be entitled the "Center for the Encouragement of Mass Casualty Events.")"

And she's right on here: "(Consider this: People who seem to hate George W. Bush also want him to be their Mommy. Are they twisted or what?)" I think I'll add that to my quote line up top.

And then she lists 13 good suggestions. Here's 9-12:

9) Local and state governments should have very harsh penalties for looting.

10) Local and state governments should have enhanced penalties for violent crime during states of emergency. Very enhanced.

11) Local and state governments should eliminate the statute of limitations for all crimes conducted in an area under a state of emergency. A conviction 20 years from now is better than no conviction at all.

12) No plea bargains should be accepted for anyone who shot at rescue personnel or committed any crime whatsoever that had the affect of impeding rescue operations during a state of emergency. These crimes are very serious and the message must be sent that anyone who does anything like this can kiss his or her old lifestyle goodbye for quite a long time indeed.
Read them here.