Virtually unreported by the national media - because it might detract from President Obama's victory lap over the U.S.'s successful targeted assassination of Osama bin Laden - is the greatest flood on the Mississippi River and lower parts of the Ohio River since 1937.The "Father of Waters," as President Lincoln called the Mississippi, is on a historic rampage. Almost no one now living remembers such a river crest. The levees were blown on the Missouri side of the river, below Cairo, last Monday night. Memphis is being surrounded by water. New Orleans will not even see the river crest before Memorial Day Weekend.Are radio stations playing - as they did after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and the Mississippi and Alabama Gulf Coasts - Randy Newman's great  "Louisiana 1927"? Is CNN going wall-to-wall?Nope.Is it because the people mostly affected by the Great Mississippi Flood of 2011 are Republican? Is it because George W. Bush is no longer...(Read Full Post)