New Orleans Steve Bachmann, erstwhile counsel to ACORN and the legions for three decades sent a wide ranging email that he thought needed to be posted far and wide. He had obviously been spending a pleasant Sunday afternoon nestled against the Indiana winter in front of the fire reading the latest issue of Harper’s …
Category: Personal Writings
Taxing Tobacco
New Orleans Recently Margaret Chan, the World Health Organization’s director-general, and NYC’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the result of the most comprehensive smokers’ survey ever. They did so in New York because Bloomberg’s foundation helped pay the bills for the study, but more importantly because his health commissioner claims that the Mayor’s anti-smoking crusade …
All in the Money
New Orleans Reading the feints and jabs between McCain and Obama over campaign financing and whether or not the two of them might bilaterally disarm their fundraising machines to accept public financing in the general election mainly makes me think about money. It is hard not to conclude even at this very early day …