Conspiracies Cut Both Ways in Retarding the Vote

DC Politics National Politics Voting Rights

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09272020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts Pearl River      The gonzo journalist Hunter Thompson used to have a patented expression as he wrote about everything from Las Vegas to political conventions.  He would write, “…and then it got weird” in his fear-and-loathing reports.  One thing we can truly say about this election …

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Cruel and Usual Punishment for Prisoners

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09262020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River      Just when you might think things can’t get any worse, it turns out you don’t know half of it.  At least, that’s how I felt visiting with Professor Nick Zaller on Wade’s World.  Zaller is a well-regarded and oft-cited researcher and professor of public …

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Charity for Whom?

Health Care

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09252020corrected.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLittle Rock      Representatives from ACORN, Local 100 United Labor Unions, Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center, and the Arkansas Community Organizations stood in front of St. Vincent’s Hospital in Little Rock.  The same group was front and center at Ocshner Baptist Hospital in New Orleans along with …

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