New Orleans In the fall from grace of one institution after another, religious bodies have been on a steady decline for a generation. No institution claims more members and fills less pews now that the Catholic Church on any given Sunday, nor has any outfit taken more of a licking in the public perception. The …
Category: National Politics
Banks Not Victims Get Yet Another Foreclosure Bailout
New Orleans We were all clear when the Obama Administration announced changes last year to the HARP (Home Affordable Refinance Program) that seemed to favor refinancing that these changes were not going to provide relief to homeowners desperately trying to hold on and resist foreclosure. I thought that was the real issue with the latest …
DREAM Come True?
New Orleans By far the best news from the USA while I was travelling in India, was (finally!) the executive order by President Obama to break through the quarrelsome, partisan logjams for immigrants and provide some relief for the young people trapped by circumstance and parental decisions in the country illegally, but trying to build a …