How Much do Voting Restrictions Help or Hurt the Parties?

Trump Voting Voting Rights

            New Orleans       Trump continues to call for nationalizing the US election procedures, despite the fact that he has surely been advised that the constitution makes it clear that election rules are generally the province of state governments, not federal action or presidential dictate. Beating this drum does send a message to his sycophants …

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Sports Can Show What Joy Feels Like

Sports

            New Orleans       Sports is a funny thing.  Some might think it’s insubstantial, maybe even frivolous compared to all of the stuff that’s supposedly more important, like politics as one example or even art.  For my money, they would be wrong.  Sports of almost all kinds is more human and invariably more popular, in …

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