New Orleans When I get really depressed and imagine that somehow the Republicans could come surging back in the White House and the Capitol, because of the inability of the Democrats to really produce, I am reminded that despite their efforts to hijack the Tea Party movement and other initiatives, they still fundamentally don’t get …
Author: wade
O’Keefe Pro and Con
New Orleans What’s a guy to do? Can’t make people happy for sure! My conservative comrades in the blogosphere are dividing sharply on the positions I have taken on James O’Keefe III and he and his rightwing dunderkind and their telephone bungle up at Senator Mary Landrieu’s office. I have pretty much come down on …
Guest Worker Abuses
Saket Soni and the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice have beaten the drum in the more than four years since Hurricane Katrina about the abuses to south Asian guest workers pulled into the shipyards during the desperate labor supplies after the storm. Lawsuits against Signal International now coming to light reveal clearly the …