ACORN Scammer Goes Down

New Orleans Thanks goodness I got home in time for this.  James O’Keefe (the 3rd!) was in New Orleans last week to speak to a far right group of business types pulled together by the Pelican Institute.  We had seen the notices.  I was going to be in Honduras, but tried to talk people into [...]

Colors and Dawn on the Marcala Mountains

Marcala           In an afterthought I had thrown a small flashlight in my bag.  You never know.  As Tim sings, “there’s the cowboy in us all,” and with me there’s still a boy scout deep down riding alongside I guess.  Good thing.  We had driven up the mountains from Marcala in pitch dark to where our [...]

Mischief in Massachusetts

New Orleans A suddenly close Senate election in Massachusetts is bringing out the full rightwing arsenal.  Wildly, a fixed page in the Republican playbook has now come to egg on heavy breather get-out-the-vote efforts by claiming that ACORN is massing from city to city in the Bay State to steal votes and mess with [...]

Santa Barbara Finally Pulls Up Short

Quepos            It was an extra present under the palm tree to read in the pre-dawn that Santa Barbara Bank & Trust was being pulled out of the business of factoring RALs, predatory refund anticipation loan for Jackson & Hewitt and other companies in the viciously competitive tax services market for lower  income and working families.  [...]

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