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Stacy Gill, editor of the Zachary Plainsman, is currently enjoying a beach vacation. (Plainsman Staff photo)
The ugly truth behind PVBs and PTD
*The following is Part 2 of a series on Post-Vacation Blues. Read Part 1 by visiting Zacharytoday.com and searching Post-Vacation Blues.* Besides the number one way of dealing with the post-vacat...
Aug 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Milo Nickel/The Man Column
And they want to see Romney’s tax returns???
If you have any doubt about the left wing, liberal news media, carrying water for the democrats, consider the following circulating on the Internet. “The Media goes bonkers over the Dems wanting 12...
Aug 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jeff Crouere, of New Orleans. (PHOTO/Submitted)
CNN: The stupid network
It keeps getting worse at CNN. Two days after CNN President Jim Walton, a 30-year veteran of the network, announced his retirement, the network broadcast a Pink song “Stupid Girls” right before air...
Aug 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dan Juneau/Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (PHOTO/Submitted)
BESE injects accountability into State Scholarship Program
The State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) held a special meeting to consider a proposal from state Superintendent of Education John White to inject a much needed accountability c...
Jul 30, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Milo Nickel/The Man Column
The Man Column
O’s medical insurance Donald Trump, love him or hate him, is a man of few words but when he speaks people listen. On the internet, he reportedly stated the following. It is better said than I co...
Jul 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Michael Danna is director of public relations and host of the Farm Bureau’s long-running farm news program “This Week in Louisiana Agriculture.” (PHOTO/Submitted)
The President's Column - Drought announcement
More than 1,000 parishes and counties across 26 states have been designated as disaster areas from the 2012 drought, making it the largest single disaster designation in the history of the U.S. USD...
Jul 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Thomas Sowell
Are race riots news?
When I first saw a book with the title, "White Girl Bleed A Lot" by Colin Flaherty, I instantly knew what it was about, even though I had not seen the book reviewed anywhere, and knew nothing about...
Jul 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dan Juneau/Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (PHOTO/Submitted)
Risks and Rewards
One of the things I admire most about business people—particularly small business people—is that they have the courage to take risks. Free market capitalism isn’t for the faint of heart. Those folk...
Jul 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dan Juneau/Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (PHOTO/Submitted)
Hagler, Hearns revisted?
I will never forget "The War" between boxers "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler and Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns fought on April 15, 1985 (www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VI-M9Yw-28). I watched it at a closed-circuit b...
Jul 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Thomas Sowell
Jobs Versus Net Jobs
One of the reasons for the popularity of political rhetoric is that everybody can be right, in terms of their own rhetoric, no matter how much the rhetoric of one side contradicts the rhetoric of t...
Jul 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Milo Nickel/The Man Column
Judas
Everyone seems to be giving their opinion on John Roberts, the conservative, oops, the Judas Justice on the Supreme Court so I might as well give mine. The liberal news media and pundits had alread...
Jul 13, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Thomas Sowell
Judicial Betrayal
Betrayal is hard to take, whether in our personal lives or in the political life of the nation. Yet there are people in Washington -- too often, Republicans -- who start living in the Beltway atmos...
Jul 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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