New Orleans The Wall Street Journal did a Business Roundtable of sorts, and one thing should have been enough to scare the stuffing (a sop to Thanksgiving, ok?) out of the business community if they bothered to read it. Journal reporter, Matt Murray, talked to Peter Hart, the Democratic pollster, and Bill McInturff, a [...]
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New Orleans Are you thinking and talking about the recent elections still? Well, yes, I am because now is the time to prepare for the coming elections in 2 years. In writing recently about the Tea Party and Me Party dominance in various elections, friends raised the new “top 2” primary system in California [...] New Orleans This is a gentle reminder to my friends among the Tea-people. History is a funny thing, comrades, in case you missed this part of high school, it’s based on facts, rather than opinions and in fact you need to base your opinions on facts. I am reminded of this in looking at [...] New Orleans One of the post-lecture questions from a perceptive Lafayette College student that has stuck with me in the last couple of days, began with a phrase something like, “Since you seem to support the Tea Party, ….blah, blah, blah.” I answered with a couple of jokes, since the premise [...] Bill Clinton Urged Florida Democrat to Quit Bid Phoenix I’m pretty sure either Mexico billionaire Carlos Slim didn’t make his contribution this year to the Clinton Foundation Global Initiative and decided to take it out in trade, or the New York Times is so desperate to find something upbeat for the Demos about the midterm [...] New Orleans In an excellent book on community building in the wake of disasters of historic proportion, A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Solnit raises a number of insightful points about what she refers to as “elite panic.” In post-Katrina New Orleans we saw this all the time, the predictions of dire consequences and the [...] |
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