New Orleans The membership of legacy religious institutions may be falling like a rock, but their privileges are increasing. President Trump last week signed an executive order that sought to do a couple of things for churches. On one hand he wanted to give them some more flexibility in opposing abortion for their workers and …
Category: National Politics
ACORN Makes the Federal Budget Extension Bill Yet Again
Little Rock In a story headlined, “I Can’t Do This Anymore, Congress. I Can’t: Republicans are blocking funds for the long-shuttered ACORN again,” Zach Carter, the senior economy reporter for the Huffington Post tries to retire from the ACORN-Is-Dead piece after years on the beat. Since I’ve counted on Zach to scour the budget to …
The Peoples’ Climate March Demonstrates the Danger of the Numbers Game
New Orleans There are many iron laws in organizing, and one of them has to be that the more any tactic is repeated, the less effective it becomes. The so-called resistance may be on the verge of painful reality, as the triumphant numbers of the Women’s March in late January was followed by disappointing numbers …