2013 SESSION ENDS: PROBLEMS AND CONFLICTS CONTINUE Perhaps the kindest thing that can be said about the 2013 Regular Session of the Legislature is that it didn’t result in the need for a follow-up Special Session. After confrontation, consternatio...
Poll sheds light on 2015 Governor’s race Who in the world is Newell Normand?
That’s a question you and your friends and neighbors may pose in the near future if the Jefferson Parish sheriff announces his candidacy for the 2015 governor’s...
Economics vs. 'Need' One of the most common arguments for allowing more immigration is that there is a "need" for foreign workers to do "jobs that Americans won't do," especially in agriculture.
One of my most vivid me...
The President’s Column: Farm Bill Detractors Farm bill detractors are kind of like cicadas. They come out of the ground every five to seven years, make a lot ofnoise then quickly crawl back into their holes.
The Senate was expected to vote th...
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The Bullying Pulpit
We have truly entered the world of "Alice in Wonderland" when the CEO of a company that pays $16 million a day in taxes is hauled up before a Congressional subcommittee to be denounced on nationwid...
The President’s Column: Immigration Reform As hard as it might be to believe, Congress has actually made progress in the last few weeks on farm legislation.
First, there is a farm bill in the works that has a good chance of getting passed t...
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Some Things that Caught my Eye this Week Where Ignorance is Bliss— If FDR had the same advisors that Barack Obama has, he wouldn’t have known that Pearl Harbor had been bombed until media reports filtered back to the mainland. The Obama ...
Why Jindal is right to reject medicaid expansion Right now, the Louisiana Legislature is considering legislation to force Gov. Jindal to accept the Medicaid expansion portion of Obamacare, and some Republican legislators are supporting it.
While ...
Wimps Versus Barbarians An all too familiar scene was enacted on the campus of Swarthmore College during a meeting on May 4th to discuss demands by student activists for the college to divest itself of its investments in ...
Stop the Louisiana election madness It seems every few weeks; there is an election in Louisiana. Whether it is a special election or a school board wants to pass a tax issue, voters are being overloaded with too many elections.
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