New Orleans       Whoever believed that sucking up doesn’t work doesn’t have a clue to understanding the emerging Trump administration.  The litmus test for thriving and surviving in Trump world is the ability to master limitless groveling, it seems.  The evidence is everywhere. Foreign leaders, remembering the first term, are reportedly reminding each other …

            Pearl River          I can’t be the only one who is sick and tired of the battleground, swing states political organizing practice, because I sure as heck am up to my eyelids with that mess.  Living in Louisiana, if I didn’t read the national papers daily, I might have forgotten there was a presidential …

            New Orleans       The US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, based in New Orleans, is often where good laws, progressive regulations, labor rights, and often common sense usually go to die.  The Trump-dominated appointees and the general cast of the court are the most conservative in the country, and the court of choice for …