Author: duranta

I wrote this after a recent visit to an homeless encampment in New Orleans. I’m a native Louisianian, struggling to grasp the issues here and present them to the rest of the world. The rate of homelessness has tripled in...

There was a tornado warning on Thursday, December 20th, with a cool front marching down south. The tornado that touched down though, was the incredible spirit, will and determination of those fighting for public, and affordable...

I told my friend this morning, I think the city is coming apart. An outbreak of robberies, some perhaps by teenagers, authorities believe; homeless population exploding; politicians looking the other way when corruption serves...

In an essay with this chilling title, “The Next War”, Wes Clark provides instruction as to how to win the next war in Sunday’s Washington Post Outlook. I wish he and other dinasours would lumber away and take...

I made it clear in recent diaries that I would be challenging the sacred cows of the democratic party. Recently, a diary ran on Booman that reprinted in its entirety, what I would call a propaganda piece on Obama. Although the...