Tegucigalpa The front page of the times indicated that both George Soros and the Koch brothers, the Daddy Warbucks of the right and the left, were among a small handful asked to defend their gifts to advocacy 501c4 organizations and why they should be not be required to pay 35% gift taxes. [...]
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Baton Rouge Years into the Great Recession, after the Big Bailout, and one thing after another, there is still no relief on foreclosures, a steady attack on the still shaky, less than adequate Dodd-Frank act, lawsuits accusing most of the bailed out banks of Madoff mischief, big bank profits, and seemingly no one with [...] New Orleans Somehow the columnists are finally noticing that there are a lot of men (and most of them are still men) who are woefully out of work. Both the Times’ David Brooks and David Leonhardt have commented on the fact that 20% of American men are out of work between 25 and 54. [...] New Orleans Spending any day in Mexico City with Suyapa Amador, head organizer of ACORN Mexico, involves at least one and sometimes two and three stops at local stores to buy minutes for her cell phone. Thanks to the virtual monopoly that Telcel, a subsidiary of America Movil owned by gazillionaire Carlos Slim Helu, [...] New Orleans Recently, I reacted to a Nicholas Kristof column in the New York Times about the controversy around Greg Mortenson, his charity – the Central Asia Institute, the author and journalist Jon Krakauer and his expose. I thought Kristof’s mea culpa about Mortenson being his friend and his hope that there was “another [...] New Orleans It is interesting how sometimes it is the little things that make such a huge difference. Reading Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention I was struck by what might seem the smallest of insignificant details that turned out to impact certainly Malcolm’s life and perhaps had an impact of millions. In the midst [...] |
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