Katrina Superdome

Real Clear Politics:

"TV of the Superdome was perplexing to most folks," Thompson said. "You had them playing the tapes of the same incidents over and over, it tends to bias your thinking some, you tend to think it's worse than it really is." Official estimates at this point suggest the Guard, working from the Dome, saved 17,000 by air and uncounted thousands more by boat.

Let's try that again: The cavalry wasn't late. It didn't arrive on Thursday smoking a cigar and cussing. It was there all along.

The National Guard's response to Katrina was even more robust than I suspected in my reporting for RealClearPolitics in September, and in more detail for National Review, where I revealed for the first time that rescue operations saved up to 50,000 lives, with perhaps an equal number making their way to shelters on their own.

I've stopped buying a paper, mostly because I don't want to pay to be lied to. I read blogs and news/opinion internet sites, listen to talk radio, and watch Brit Hume on Tivo; I figure anything of national or international importance I will find out about.

And I won't have to spend as much time figuring out whose lying about what.