New Orleans Like many I’ve read the Osama Bin Laden deathwatch and Seal 6 commando raid stories, word for word, and line by line. I’ve found it fascinatingly educational. Reading Leon Panetta, the USA CIA director’s accounts of the search for Bin Laden, I found it telling that one of the last steps before presenting …
Category: National Politics
Republicans are Government Interventionists, Not Conservatives
Missoula The patterns are just too obvious now. The Republicans are into Big Brother and total government control. They are not conservatives at all! It is such a mistake for any of us to get suckered into that slick trick. What they really want it becomes increasingly clear is total government intervention, intrusion, and control …
Register Voters or Lose
Little Rock Visiting with friends and comrades in Little Rock, it wasn’t long before the discussion went to the obvious: how could there be meaningful civic engagement of low-and-moderate income families in the 2012 elections without a huge voter registration effort among the poor? There are still open wounds from too many sources that …