New Orleans With the passage of Dodd-Frank and the advent of the coming Consumer Protection Finance Agency there was a huge hubbub from business and others opposing the appointment of Harvard Law Professor and bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren to run the agency. Supposedly she was opposed by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, the bank bailout Wall …
Category: National Politics
George Clooney, McCarthy, and Commie Terrorists
New Orleans In these politically cold, hard, and unsettled times, I took advantage of my new love affair with my library card to try and gain some perspective, maybe even insights, into the McCarthy Era that ravished the American politics, liberals, and the left in the 1950’s by ordering up “Good Night and Good Luck” …
Arizona is the 21st Century Mississippi
New Orleans I really love Arizona. It’s beautiful country with an amazing history and people. So was, Mississippi fifty odd years ago, but sometimes the fusion of time, land, and change produces hybrid aberrations that shake society to the core. We need to stop pretending that there’s not something serious wrong in the political and …