WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
Pearl River I can remember the news that President Lyndon B. Johnson was abandoning the race for a second term in March 1968, like it was yesterday. I had dropped out of college only a few months before to organize draft resistance, returning to New Orleans from Massachusetts. I was living then in a …
Heerlen I didn’t watch the debate, On a seven-hour time difference, I was on a radio board meeting at midnight and turned off the light at 1AM. Truth to tell, I wouldn’t have watched them even if I had been home. Debates are not my thing. I find them unpleasant. The old warning applies, especially …
Marble Falls Most of us learn early in our lives and work that it’s hard to prove a negative. Interestingly, this is a lesson many on the political right are being forced to quietly learn behind the scenes after having beaten the drums and searched in every dark corner for evidence of elves and …