HB 267 meant to unite, not divide The first thing I did when I read LHSAA Proposition 18 was take football out of the equation. Why just football? I would have reacted the same way if it were any sport, curricular, or non-curricula...
Higher Business Taxes are Not the Answer Quite a few eyebrows raised in the business community recently when Governor Jindal’s Executive Counsel, Tim Barfield, responded to a question about winners and losers under the governor’s tax swap...
Guns Save Lives We all know that guns can cost lives because the media repeat this message endlessly, as if we could not figure it out for ourselves. But even someone who reads newspapers regularly and watches nu...
The President’s Column: Endangered Species This is the story of the lesser prairie chicken and its struggle for survival.
Never heard of the lesser prairie chicken? Neither had I until I came across an obscure news item about the bird’s po...
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Manufacturers have a growth agenda for the nation In an ongoing effort to show policy makers the importance of manufacturing to the nation, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) recently released A Growth Agenda: Four Goals for a Manufac...
Easter and Passover: God’s presence Societies around the world are embracing “secularism” since they are encouraging their peoples to be indifferent to , or outright reject, religion or religious considerations. We are never surpris...
Intellectuals and Race There are so many fallacies about race that it would be hard to say which is the most ridiculous. However, one fallacy behind many other fallacies is the notion that there is something unusual abou...
How to Put Epoxy into the Wheels of Commerce Folks who are working hard to expand our stagnant economy in the face of government-imposed headwinds had to be upset if they read the March 14 article in Bloomberg BusinessWeek entitled “Obama Wil...
The President's Column ~ Budget Battle There are very few things in Washington one would consider consistent; that is, unless you consider lawmakers’ inability to reach a compromise something you can always count on.
As Congress and the...
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Things that Caught My Eye this Week Add $239 more to the budget hole: If things weren’t bleak enough for the state’s fiscal outlook, more bad news came this week in the form of a $239 million federal court judgment against Louisiana....
Budget Politics Back in my teaching days, many years ago, one of the things I liked to ask the class to consider was this: Imagine a government agency with only two tasks: (1) building statues of Benedict Arnold a...
The Carbon Tax: A bad idea whose time has not come President Obama was mostly silent about the “climate change” issue during his re-election campaign last year. That was undoubtedly due to the low standing the topic has with voters. In his State of...
