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 My football career is long over and gone. I’m not going to pretend that I didn’t love the game. Truth to tell, I did. I’m not going to lie and say that it wasn’t dangerous. It was. It is. I know. I was hurt, blew out my left knee, as they say. …
New Orleans There is no danger whatsoever that anyone will start calling American football the “beautiful game,” which is sometimes the expression used internationally for what the world sees as football, which we call soccer. Football is earning the moniker of the “deadly” game for its institutionalized violence, mayhem, maiming, racism, and more. I …
New Orleans President Trump could have, and in fact should have, just declared victory over the cowering and hapless National Football League billionaire owners and called it a day, case closed. He had proven that a poorer man could successfully bully a whole gaggle of richer men. For once in his life, he should have …
New Orleans In the United States, from place to place, Thanksgiving comes with its own set of traditions enhanced by families and friends. One of my first Thanksgivings away from home while on my brief on and off collegiate tour, the details are now lost in the fog of memory, but somehow I ended …
New Orleans I’m not sure if we are moving towards the end of the college bowl cycle or in the middle? The big bowl games, like the Sugar, Rose, Cotton, and Orange are now BCS bowls, and the biggest bowl is the Championship right around the corner in the Louisiana Superdome. But, there are scores …