New Orleans My old friend and fellow labor activist, now retired from the postal workers union, Stanley Taylor, late in the 4th ,Fair Grinds Dialogue, reminded the assembled, rapt crowd, that “those who do not remember history are condemned to repeat it. Some nodded approvingly, but for most his comment was simply more sound in the …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Koch Brothers, Cato Institute, and Stock-based Non-Profits
New Orleans I think the colloquial expression would be that there’s a “falling out among thieves” over at the Cato Institute between the co-founders, Edward Crane, and the two gazillionaires from Kansas, the Koch brothers, Charles and David. The Koch’s after having bankrolled the allegedly independent Cato outfit to the tune of $30 million over …
Adios, Andrew Breitbart
New Orleans Andrew Breitbart’s career speaks loudly to the ongoing American phenomena of the winking carnie barker, P. T. Barnum huckster who always had something to sell and could find the suckers that would buy it. Breitbart’s passionate mission to destroy “progressive institutions” was clearly stated and there were plenty of rubes in cities large …