WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
New Orleans When I saw the headline, I cringed. I knew trouble was coming. What were they thinking?!? House Speaker wannabe, Kevin McCarthy, had only weeks earlier caught a bit of heat hinting that if Republicans took control of Congress the virtually unanimous support for the Ukrainian efforts to resist the Russian invasion …
Marble Falls I’ve had this chart from the Times sitting on my desk for a couple of weeks now, while I pondered, scratched my head, and tried to sort out what it means, and, frankly, what it portends for the future we might hope to see someday. There’s a lot of good stuff …
Marble Falls West Virginia’s Democratic Senator Joe Manchin flipped the script without a worry in the world about whether his on-again, off-again position on the Biden administration’s signature climate, tax, and healthcare might have bothered or embarrassed him in the least. Promoting the fig leaf name change of the proposed Senate legislation, he …