New Orleans Huey Long, a former Senator and Governor of Louisiana, launched “Share the Wealth” clubs across the country with Gerald L. K. Smith as his acolyte and chief organizer in a populist challenge to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Great Depression. On Wade’s World, I recently interviewed Andrew Yang, a techster, entrepreneur, and …
Category: Ideas and Issues
USA Declaration of Independence Speaks to Today as Well
New Orleans In my generation it would have been rare for school children not to learn the first section of the Declaration of Independence unanimously approved by the thirteen United States of America, When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected …
Immigration Protests Everywhere in Cities and Towns, Large and Small
Worland, Wyoming Family separation and child incarceration continues to be a political flashpoint. President Trump may have been at one of his golf clubs again this weekend, but his zero-tolerance policy and criminalization of immigration by migrants often asking for asylum has not quelled the rage despite his attempt to get a mulligan with his …