New Orleans Reading the tales of migrants struggling to flee civil wars in the Middle East is becoming a classic definition of the daily downer: unwanted, feared, and shunned. Women fleeing with children seem under constant attack, including sexual abuse. Countries erecting US-like walls and barriers of concertina wire at their boundaries. Even the Nordic …
Month: January 2016
Hate Takes No Holiday: Texas Plumber Shaggy Truck Story
New Orleans Mark Oberholtzer has been a plumber and plumbing contractor based out of Galveston, Texas for over thirty years. His son Jeff works with him and is his business partner. They put about 130,000 miles in a three year period on their work trucks. The greater Houston area is a big drink of water, …
Keeping it Holstered in Texas
Houston New Year’s Day in Texas was duck-and-cover for 2016. Almost one-million Texans have a permit to carry guns and until New Year’s they had to keep handguns concealed. Now it’s all out in the open, and so are the arguments about it. Businesses can opt out of open-carry and some have. For months, …