O’Keefe Pro and Con

New Orleans What’s a guy to do?  Can’t make people happy for sure!  My conservative comrades in the blogosphere are dividing sharply on the positions I have taken on James O’Keefe III and he and his rightwing dunderkind and their telephone bungle up at Senator Mary Landrieu’s office.  I have pretty much come down on [...]

500,000+ Flee Mortgages in 2008

New Orleans I have taken some heat for recommending that homeowners who are underwater walk away from their mortgage obligations in the face of totally, and now admittedly, inept response to the foreclosure crisis by the Obama Administration all facilitated by the total greenwash of the banks by Treasury Secretary Geithner.  It seems according [...]

Small Scotia Steps on Remittances

New Orleans Handling remittances from working immigrant families is such a lucrative business that progress is measured in very small steps.  We were delighted to take one with Scotia Bank when they announced in Toronto that they were lowering costs for remittances from their account holders using a combination of their online access and [...]

Alinsky and the Rightists

New Orleans Like a bad penny, it pops up again that rightwing activists like the Landrieu bungling James O’Keefe have spent hours poring through Saul Alinksy’s Rules for Radicals for tips as if it were a “how to” manual.  I’m constantly surprised to get flaming emails quoting one of Saul’s rules or another and [...]

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