New Orleans Ok, I’m thinking about Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement and the 10,000 person march in Phoenix on Saturday that is so much in that tradition yet has been silently buried in the press, and suddenly I stumble on an article about domestic disputes that are straining relationships around the issue …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Advocating Squatting in Haiti
New Orleans Here’s an interesting twist on the Haitian disaster where 3 million people may now be homeless and essentially living as refugees in their own homes and country: support squatters’ rights. A least that’s the argument made as one of the rebuilding contributions on the op-ed page of the New York Times today by …
Selling Out Tea Party Populists
New Orleans The other day when I had seen a piece touting the first ever national Tea Party Convention in Nashville in February, I looked at the calendar, noted the date, and sent an email to a friend in LA suggesting we go check it out. I know now I must have been kidding myself …