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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."