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Fifty Years Since the Freedom Rides

NewOrleans Thanks to my new library card, I stumbled onto the library’s homepage last weekend to learn how to order books on-line, and what do you know there was an announcement of a event commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Rides of 1961 complete with a traveling exhibit and speakers, so I trundled [...]

Constitutional Defenders

New Orleans Having been in Canada all week was a relief, but there was no way to come back to New Orleans and not try to get a better understanding of the political road rage that is seeking to engulf ACORN and attack governmental funding sources.  Two things interested me first.  The first was [...]