New Orleans I got a call late Mardi Gras afternoon on my cell from James Salt, the organizing director for something called Catholics United. He got right to the point. The rightwing within the Catholic Church (yes, I know some of you are chuckling that you thought that was the only wing, but keep it …
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Killing the Tea Party with Guns
New Orleans The New York Times pumped a couple of rounds into the Tea Party in a front page story today. They missed the heart, but they were probably aiming more to cripple, than kill. Despite the palpable anger so clearly motivating a vast national, though embryonic, movement, David Barstow, the reporter on the story …
Becker and the Senators
New Orleans There’s an old saying down in this part of the country that “if you roll around with the dogs, you’re going to get fleas.” True that! For many months I’ve bitten my lip as I’ve watched the neo-McCarthy efforts of the right try to sidetrack the early, breathtaking nomination of Craig Becker, a …