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Jornaleros: Livelihoods and Public Safety

New Orleans My heart sank as I read the New York Times editorial in the wake of the 9th Circuit Appeals court upholding an ordinance crafted by the City of Redondo Beach (California) pushing day laborers off the streets in the name of traffic safety.  The editorial said all of the right things, but [...]

Health Care Wars Ongoing

New Orleans Perhaps the number three rule of politics, right after “everything begins with a base” and “money rules,” is that the “devil is in the details.” Now that Congress has voted and the President has signed, we need to get off of the arguments about how few slices of the [...]

Enough with The Talk on Immigration Reform

New Orleans Frankly, I don’t read editorials in the New York Times. Usually they just made me mad.  Saturday though there was one that was mad enough already under the headline:  “Republicans Wanted.”  The editorial was about the meetings last Thursday between President Obama and advocates for immigration reform.

Telling it like it is, the [...]

Killing the Tea Party with Guns

New Orleans The New York Times pumped a couple of rounds into the Tea Party in a front page story today.  They missed the heart, but they were probably aiming more to cripple, than kill.  Despite the palpable anger so clearly motivating a vast national, though embryonic, movement, David Barstow, the reporter on the [...]

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