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Paul Revere and Darrell Issa: Two if By See!

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 [...]

Tea Party, Me Party, More Parties

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 [...]

Brewer, Bankers, and Union Busters – Election Day!

Grizzly Mom voted!

New Orleans Yesterday was the first day of our future and from all reports it was much, much scarier than Halloween might have ever hoped to be.  Look at the cases in point.

In the federal hearing on immigration madness in Arizona, Governor Brewer took time out of her campaign schedule (ok, that’s [...]

Puppy Love for the Big Dawg, Clinton

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 [...]

Elite Panic and the Tea Party

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 [...]

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 [...]