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".
New Orleans It never ceases to amaze me, both as a delight and a caution, how many really fundamental things that are critical to our understanding of politics and the economy, but that, for one reason or another, are so far off our normal radar that we are left clueless. Add “discounting” to …
New Orleans Freedom Path is a conservative advocacy organization, but it may have done advocacy groups of all flavors and persuasions a favor by challenging the US Internal Revenue Service on the issue of fuzzy and non-existent standards for what determines political activity by a tax-exempt nonprofit organization. Freedom Path is classified as …
Pearl River The situation in Gaza has been horrifying. Provoked by Hamas attack and killing of Israelis at a concert two years ago, Israel has launched a devastating attack on Palestinians throughout Gaza and even encouraged actively and passively settler violence in the West Bank. More than 65,000 Palestinians have been killed and millions …