Nutcase Congressman Ron Paul represents the entire city of Galveston, Texas.  As you may have read, Galveston is devastated.  Before Hurricane Ike even came ashore, Galveston City Manager Steve LeBlanc warned that the worst was still to come. “The island is flooding pretty severely right now,” he said. “The west end is being torn up, pretty...

Janice, Tag, and I live in Houston, which you may have read is not in such great shape.  Friday night was terrifying.  We lost power at around 11:30 and went to sleep.  At 3:30 Saturday morning, we woke up to five smoke detectors chirping throughout our house.  Thankfully, there was no fire, but there was no way to go back to sleep. In short, the night was...

From our exile in Austin, we watched Louisiana native Ret. Gen. Russel Honoré talk about getting supplies to those stranded by Hurricane Ike.  Honoré is clearly the best disaster relief expert in the country. And everyone on television ought to conclude their statements this way. Sorry for the poor quality of the video.  We’re stranded. See also: ...

I live in Houston.  My family and I spent a lot of time today preparing for tomorrow’s expected arrival of hurricane Ike.  It’s a big one — about the size of Gustav.  It occurred to us today that President Bush wasn’t in our region helping coordinate the federal government’s rescue efforts.  That seemed strange since he was just...

This isn’t going to be good. Hurricane Ike’s turn toward the Houston area spurred emergency officials this morning to call for a mandatory evacuation of residents in areas that will be subject to a massive storm surge. Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas also expanded the evacuation order there to cover the entire island. In addition, Chambers County,...