New Orleans         The President is back from his European smash concert tour where he played to wild applause and standing ovations in countries from the British Isles to Turkey, so now it is “game on” for the big ticket items:  employee free choice, health care, and immigration reform.The lead article in the morning …

 New Orleans         Moldova is squeezed into the crawl space of Europe between Ukraine and Romania.  It’s one of those former USSR countries trying to find a space and place in the world, and finding it hard to do so in the current mix and mayhem of the economy.  Though some might ascribe this …

 New Orleans         On the road for three weeks means a pile of messages I couldn’t access on the cell from India for whatever reason, email I couldn’t read for the same technical mysteries, and some old fashioned mail stacked up and waiting.  There was a surprise piece though, a book of some kind …