New Orleans Watching Kris Kobach, the uber-controversial Kansas Secretary of State who has been a one-man wrecking ban of voters rights, ballot access, and the human and legal rights of immigrants, walking hand in hand with President-elect Trump and giving him advice on how to set up a Muslim registry was another in a long …
Month: November 2016
Some Stories Shouldn’t Stay in Vegas
New Orleans There are some stories from the last election that should speak more to our future than any nostalgia for the past. One big story is from Las Vegas, and it’s not a story that should stay there, but one that should travel everywhere, although it may be too late. In the butt whipping …
Fake News and a Field Guide to Lies
New Orleans You have to love headline news about fake news. Usually fake news is in the stories, not the headlines. We all have to appreciate the irony contained in articles in almost any newspaper, especially opinion pieces, about fake news when there is no disclosure of inherent biases contained in any of them. Nonetheless, it …