New Orleans After Katrina a group of us who were community organizers with ACORN in New Orleans were given tickets to go to Japan to see what lessons had been learned from the Kobe earthquake a little more than 10 years before Katrina in 1995 and their recovery as well as precautions Tokyo [...]
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New Orleans As part of Paladin Partners, Drummond Pike and I spent an invigorating and productive day meeting in [...] Washington This is starting to get embarrassing. There has to be universal consensus that James O’Keefe the sneak videographer is a total punk, but somehow we keep falling for this stuff. Look at the record: He and his accomplice sting ACORN in the fall of 2009 as part of an orchestrated right-wing attack and do so with highly [...] New Orleans When William Kristol of the intellectual right, Weekly Standard, is coming to your defense against Glenn Beck of Fox and other platforms, it would be a mistake to believe that everything is “right with the world,” since it is more likely the equivalent of a no-punches-thrown schoolyard shouting match. But, sure enough [...] March 8, 2011 In the Bywater – New Orleans Cheyenne, my old, arthritic Australian cattle dog, needed walking so we jumped out on the street early in a light, warm drizzle hoping to beat the crowds moving towards parades in a couple of hours. No such luck. Within a block from [...] |
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