Toronto The rhetorical devices that former CNN and NBC news-person, Campbell Brown, is using in what now seems like a tryout for an op-ed column in the New York Times, are very smart and almost personal in a clever, conservative “cover-your-bases” way. Yesterday’s piece was essentially an attack on Planned Parenthood in the guise of …
Tag: President Obama
DREAM Come True?
New Orleans By far the best news from the USA while I was travelling in India, was (finally!) the executive order by President Obama to break through the quarrelsome, partisan logjams for immigrants and provide some relief for the young people trapped by circumstance and parental decisions in the country illegally, but trying to build a …
Raising and Indexing the Federal Minimum Wage
New Orleans There was a picture in the New York Times claiming to be Dan Cantor (sure didn’t look like him?) of the New York State Working Families Party who was advocating an increase in the state minimum wage. Jen Kern, a career minimum wage expert as former coordinator of ACORN’s Minimum Wage Resource Center …