New Orleans Watching the banks back track and squirm in Spain over foreclosures that ended in several well-publicized suicides that are now roiling the political establishment in that country is a good lesson in how financial institutions can actually be moved when political will begins to coalesce. In the USA we certainly do not seek …
Month: November 2012
Obama Campaign Scientists Try to Spin Basic ACORN-style Community Organizing Methodologies
New Orleans More than 40 years ago I used to go downtown a couple of times a week to the Walgreens on Main Street and drink very cheap, very bad coffee with an Arkansas political savant named Max Allison. Max was a behind the scene political operator. He had run the campaigns that first elected …
Military Unemployment Especially for Women Vets
New Orleans I’ve wondered about military unemployment since spending time with my sister-in-law and brother-in-law in Seoul on a Sunday afternoon a couple of weeks ago. Both enlisted years ago in the U.S. Army. He stayed in until he qualified for a decent retirement, and then over recent years managed to get virtually the same …