Tennessee Volunteers

Jesse Walker | September 15, 2005

A maddening report in TPM Cafe tells how some private citizens organized an airlift to evacuate hundreds of hospital patients and others from New Orleans -- and how the federal government did its best to block them all the way.

As a footnote, one of the people involved with the operation was former vice president Al Gore. A fellow called Greg in Oz comments: "How very libertarian: only as a private individual is a politician effective."