America's Rubicon

Following American politics is like traveling into a river of darkness. Goodbye to that negativity.

Wikimedia Commons: New Orleans, 1841 color engraving. "New Orleans. - Taken from the Opposite Side a Short Distance above the Middle or Picayune Ferry."

View looking from Algiers (probably about where Mardi Gras World is now) looking across the Mississippi River. On river are a variety of sailing ships, steam ships, row-boats, and a flatboat. Across the …