New Orleans        President Obama announced that in order to pay the piper for health care and for expanding the tax credits to lower income, working families, he was going to advocate a very simple solution:  tax the rich!   Well, not exactly TAX THE RICH, but more just equalize some of the taxes on the …

New Orleans        All weekend the national papers, radio, and television tried to get a handle on what the notion of nationalization might mean when thinking about the banking and auto industries.  Word flowing out of the negotiations with Citi indicates that the US might have as much as a 40% stake in the company …

Mardi Gras Day, New Orleans    I am hardly a Hollywood groupie, but given ACORN International’s work in Dharavi, the Mumbai mega-slum, that was one of the “stars” of the movie, Slumdog Millionaire, I couldn’t claim to be disinterested.  Furthermore, ACORN India put on a different kind of Oscar-watch party in Dharavi that has now been …