During the Hurricane Katrina fiasco, FEMA found out the hard way that sometimes the press just isn’t feeling very charitable towards the incompetent agency. So when they had a press conference today, the Washington Post’s Al Kamen reveals, it’s way better to just make sure the reporters can’t get there, and then to assign various staffers with make-believe roles as pretend reporters. MORE »

California’s burning, and there are political points ripe for the plucking! Michelle Malkin and Glenn Beck, for instance, both agree it’s all the environazis’ fault, with Malkin taking the opportunity to throw a few Mexicans on the pyre while she’s at it. MORE »