New Orleans In the United States, from place to place, Thanksgiving comes with its own set of traditions enhanced by families and friends. One of my first Thanksgivings away from home while on my brief on and off collegiate tour, the details are now lost in the fog of memory, but somehow I ended …
Category: Ideas and Issues
What Goes Around, Comes Around, Even for Presidents like Wilson
New Orleans A saying with common currency in recent years has been, “haters gonna hate.” An old one that seems almost timeless from the later part of the last century is, “what goes around, comes around.” As a matter of long standing record, I’m rooting for campus protestors these days on the issues of race and …
Lightning Strikes and a Democrat is Elected Governor in the South
New Orleans Even when State Representative John Bel Edwards from small town Amite, Louisiana, known for little of nothing other than being near where Abita beer is made and on the way to Mississippi, led in the open primary against three Republicans, when asked about his real chances of winning, I was doubtful. He wasn’t …