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When you compare the Army Corps of Engineers to the Catholic church<\/a>, you’re hitting below the belt.<\/p>\n

If you’re interested in the policy that led to the flooding of New Orleans, you need to read this article<\/a> by Michael Grunwald.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you compare the Army Corps of Engineers to the Catholic church, you’re hitting below the belt. If you’re interested in the policy that led to the flooding of New Orleans, you need to read this article by Michael Grunwald.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-orleans","category-politics-implicit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-fm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2455,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/new-orleans-beijing-same-difference","url_meta":{"origin":952,"position":0},"title":"New Orleans, Beijing: Same Difference","author":"Gil","date":"September 14, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Nicolai Ouroussoff: still here, still batshit-crazy. 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