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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]