Politics

IT’S HARD OUT HERE FOR A MOM Happy Mother’s Day to all our readers who are moms. This is a holiday that retains value, although it is primarily promoted by the flower and candy industries.  One important aspect of motherhood in our time is the effort to balance career and family. Three busy women share…

April was a good month for jobs recovery with payrolls swelling by 290,000. Unemployment went up too, but, according to Salon, even that is a healthy sign Good news on the jobs front: In its best showing in years, the U.S. economy added 290,000 jobs in April, considerably exceeding the consensus expectation of economists. Hiring…

Panic Room: Dow Drops and Rebounds http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704370704575227754131412596.html Do you hear that? No it’s not a stampede, it’s the panic that washed over Wall Street and the country yesterday after the Dow Jones Industrial Average went into a 1,000-point tailspin. At its afternoon low, the Dow had plummeted 998.50 points, its biggest intraday point drop ever.…

Shortly after he ousted a guy named Corn Pop for breaking the rules at the all-black pool, Joe Biden considered calling the police to escort him to his car once his shift ended. Corn Pop belonged to a gang known as the Romans, and Biden, the lone white lifeguard at Prices Run—one of the few…

The death of Umaru Yar’Adua, at age 58, may have been the most anticlimactic moment in his short and chaotic time as president of Africa’s most populous country. Just two years after he won a much-disputed election in 2007, Yar’Adua, who was known to suffer from kidney problems, flew to Saudi Arabia last November for…

If they’re already complaining at Galatoire’s in the French Quarter about the impact of the oil spill, I wonder what Mrs. Chase and the brothers at Dooky Chase are saying. As the pending disaster snakes its way toward the Gulf Coast like a creepy crawler, the toll it will surely exact is the zillion-dollar mystery. Restaurants and cuisine are the…

No-Fly List Fail: Security slip let suspect on plane, near takeoffhttp://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ib_fj8uy3L29st8d61Wk32WKV_JAD9FGBQNG0 What exactly is the point of a no-fly list if wannabe terrorists are going to be allowed on the plane anyway? How is it that us regular folks get searched and seized for things like mascara, lipstick, hand lotion and belt buckles? Suspected terrorist…

A law that makes people suspects on the basis of their looks should outrage African Americans, even if they are worried about illegal immigration. The immigration law passed in Arizona last week is the kind of reckless act that keeps us minorities paranoid in America. The new law compels local law enforcers to verify immigration…