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...Boxer amendment passed both houses of Congress, but was vetoed by the President. Although they were unsuccessful, fully 70% of the women Representatives voted to override the veto, in contrast to just 54% of the men. Similarly, it is in legislatures with very few women, like Pennsylvania and Louisiana, that some of the most restrictive abortion laws have been passed...
...players and industry experts. Then he spent hours with Marsalis in his home, jazz clubs, dressing rooms, limousines and even on the stage of a Harlem theater, where the trumpeter was recording a classical album. Along the way, Sancton benefited from their shared love of the music and common Louisiana roots: he and Marsalis went to the same New Orleans high school. One night while the two men were talking in Marsalis' living room, the trumpeter's goddaughter Adorea, 2, called from Washington asking for a lullaby. He picked up his trumpet and played her the theme from Sesame Street...
GOVERNOR of Louisiana from 1928-1932, and U.S. Senator from 1932 until his death in 1935, Huey P. Long was one of America's great advocates for the average citizen. On a local and national level, he railed against corrupt big-business interests, monopolists and financiers. Huey recognized that the concentration of wealth in the hands of the Morgans and Rockefellers resulted in excessive power and influence for these families...
ADMITTEDLY, Huey wasn't strong on sophisticated economic theory. But he had the right idea--using progressive taxation to ensure a basic standard of living for the poor and powerless (an idea that has since fallen into undeserved disrepute). We need the Louisiana governor to help us regain a moral perspective on the budget crisis...
...other side of the political spectrum, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke made a strong showing in his Louisiana Senate race by tapping the same disaffected voters to whom Long appealed. But Duke, unlike Long, insisted on grafting racism onto legitimate economic grievances...