New Orleans Counting the votes seems to be an increasingly big challenge for President Obama and his Administration. The most well known problem today involves Syria where he can’t seem to get the United Nations Security Council or a majority of the G-20 largest industrial countries to back military strikes in that country to protest with …
Category: Financial Justice
The Deepening Injustice and Illegality of Congressional Anti-ACORN Bans
New Orleans The original Congressional budget ban on “ACORN, its affiliates, and allied organizations” continues to be renewed annually in different ways by the eager beaver hater brigade in Congress, and was done so again recently, reportedly for the thirteenth time since 2009. I decided to take a list at the 2009 original ban list …
Cop Shops and Civil Forfeiture Scandals
New Orleans One of our continuing definitions of humanity has to be our ability to still be surprised and shocked at injustice. Reading an article by Sarah Stillman in the New Yorker entitled “Taken” about the criminal scams being pulled off right and left, high and low by police departments to seize the money, property, …