First Prize for Kristen Butler in the National Society of Newspaper Columnists Educational Foundation Scholarship Contest
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Kristen Butler
Kristin Butler won the National Society of Newspaper Columnists Educational Foundation Scholarship contest recently.
Barack Obama: An American President, a Global Hope
The first African American President is sworn in, inheriting a country in shambles…the legacy of the Bush administration. But in this historical moment, the world finds new hope, and looks ahead to a brighter future for all of us.
2008: A Turning Point for New Orleans?
The rebuilding effort in the city of New Orleans, is now going into 2008. The Leadership of New Orleans remains quite optimistic about the future of New Orleans.
Kleptocracy, Cronyism and War Profiteers – Part Seven
In Part Seven of “Kleptocracy, Cronyism and War Profiteers: Too Many Hands in the Cookie Jar”, war profiteer Custer Battles legal battle and vacated guilty ruling make for some interesting reading, we review Blackwater USA’s wrongful death lawsuits by grieving families, their heavy handed tactics in New Orleans post-Katrina disaster, and finally their current advertising of “we’re for hire by any government with a small uprising!”.
Kleptocracy, Cronyism and War Profiteers – Part Three
In Part Three of “Kleptocracy, Cronyism and War Profiteers: Too Many Hands in the Cookie Jar”, we look at how lobbyists became rich during the 2004 elections while buying the presidency, we list several major mistakes brought on by cronyism, view the “War on Terror” in its dim bulb light considering the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) telling us it’s an utter disaster, Michael Brown’s cronyism and the effects on Hurricane Katrina, and finally reveal how public relations firms unconsciously shape public opinion to the White House party line.
