New Orleans Certainly January 6th was an assault on everything we believe about democracy in the United States, because it was a dramatic attempt to undue the will of the American people as expressed throughout the country in their election ballots. In that case, despite the continued furor, it didn’t work, and Joe …
Category: Legislation
Women are Voting with their Fetus on Abortion Prohibition
New Orleans Not only is the old saw true that it is “impossible to legislate morality,” it may be even harder to order it by judicial dictate. It’s early days, but we may be already seeing the resistance to this new Prohibition, almost a century after the last try when it came to …
A Proud MRRRI for the Mississippi River
New Orleans Living in New Orleans, we depend on the Mississippi River, and in my case, living only a couple of blocks from the great river in a neighborhood appropriately called Bywater, the river is a neighbor. At between 175 and 200 feet deep at the crescent near me, ocean going ships can …