New Orleans The rich contras have been organizing in Illinois to elect their own and decimate the social safety net in that state, long regarded as a progressive, liberal bastion under both Democrats and Republicans on many core issues. Republicans tended to be moderates able to understand the value of unions and public employees and …
Month: November 2015
The “Carefree” Entitlement
New Orleans Even after bingeing on the popular cultural phenomenon of Thanksgiving, we still dove deeper and did a bit of binge watching on the clever, funny, and even somewhat political, new Netflix series by comedian Aziz Ansari called “Master of None.” The title is a giveaway obviously, signaling that this will entail self-deprecation of …
Domestic Terrorism Requires Federal Protection of Abortion Clinics
New Orleans As horrifying as it was to read about a gunman with an assault rifle laying siege from a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, killing three including one police officer and wounding eleven, it was as unsettling to read that that the clinic, a site of daily protests from a dozen to several …