Wade Rathke:

Pearl River     No, this is not another ranting madness update.  We hear too much of that.  What did Trump do yesterday or this morning or a minute ago?  Did he pardon a buddy? Make par on one of golf courses, finally? Announce some kind of war?  Against Iran? Against trade?  Against the virus?  Against horse […]

Pearl River     Those were the days!  As part of the ongoing 50th anniversary celebration of ACORN this year, different veterans have joined me on Wade’s World to share their memories and reminisce about their work when they rode for the ACORN brand.  We started out with Sue Hanna Marquess, one of the early organizers from […]

Little Rock       School teachers and their unions are being forced into Hobson’s choices all over the country about whether to return to work as politicians, parents, school officials, and every mother’s child pushes them in one direction or another.  The standard line there, and everywhere, is, “Sure, I want to work, if it’s safe.”  That’s […]

Little Rock       One takeaway from the memorials to civil rights leader and organizer, Congressman John Lewis, has been the repeated invocation of the violence that was the handmaiden of the struggle.  Martin Luther King, Jr. preached nonviolence to anyone who would listen, and, tactically, that became the norm and how the movement is remembered, despite […]

Greenville       How about that!  I almost called it for Kamala Harris, California’s Senator getting the Vice-President nod on the Democratic ticket for the November 3rd election.  She quickly makes history as the first Black woman on a major party ticket and the first person of Asian-American heritage as well. As the news broke, I scrolled […]

New Orleans     Since there’s still a Las Vegas, there is probably a betting line on the odds for various women being picked as Joe Biden’s choice to join him on the ticket as a candidate for vice-president.  Despite all of the arguments and soothsaying by the pundits about this and that, no one knows […]

New Orleans     People literally don’t know what to do.  Random strangers will ask in social distanced lines at stores and gas stations, whether anyone knows what’s happening to the stimulus.  Will there be one?  When will it happen?  What are we supposed to do? Being president used to be the benchmark that defined leadership […]

Pearl River     There was a day, long ago, when Betsey Ross sewing the flag was a symbol of America.  Now, if we just knew what Debbie Downer really looked like, she might be the new picture of America.  If you think I’m just talking about the current multi-pronged horrors of the pandemic, the depression, and […]

New Orleans      It has almost become such an everyday appellation to refer to President Trump as a demagogue that it has almost lost its sting.  What might have been hurled as an accusation several years ago has become something more on the order, of “Yeah, Trump, the demagogue, went to Mar-de-Largo to play golf […]

New Orleans     Wayne LaPierre, the head of the National Rifle Association (NRA), dealing with all of NRA’s internal and external problems in recent years must be getting advice from his buddy, President Trump, in how to deal with his mess.  Trump must have assured him that it was like the novel coronavirus and would […]