January 8, 2021             New Orleans       One of the late-night comedians noted that these early resignations from White House staff and cabinet officers with less than two weeks before Biden’s inauguration are almost meaningless expressions of johnny-come-lately-principles that were more like “leaving early to beat the traffic.”  Twenty-fifth Amendment and impeachment talk are mainly …

January 7, 2021 New Orleans  Insurrection, riot, mob, anarchists, terrorists, as the Senate chaplain reminded, words have meaning, and those were words hurled like rocks from Senators and Representatives. For a change they weren’t hummed at our heads, but at Trump and his base that has so many of them cowering in fear and spinelessness. …

January 6, 2021 New Orleans         Victories have a thousand fathers and defeats are orphan children, or something like that. ACORN, the Voter Purge Project, and Labor Neighbor are glad to count coup in Georgia for our small part in an enormous an historic victory in Georgia. Where we worked against suppression in …