New Orleans In the United States, like it or not, we’re on the countdown. The government has been shutdown for weeks, as the polarity between the party’s positions pushes towards a new record for dysfunction. The President is hands-off on a snack tour of the Far East beginning with Japan. There are no …
Civility Trumped by Partisanship in Shutdown
New Orleans In the US, we’ve had governmental shutdowns over recent years from time to time. Most of them have been relatively short. Services were disrupted. Federal workers were furloughed. When it was over, they received their back pay, and things went back to normal. During the interim, the government often maintained crucial …
Billionaires Gone Wild
Marble Falls Chuck Collins has a fixation about wealth. He’s written a bunch of books about the devastating impact of the gap between the rich and the rest to us. He makes following the money trail his full-time job at the Institute of Policy Studies where he tracks everything from the big business …


