Big Been: What’s Passed Must Remain Past
So, yet again, it comes down to this: The Saints versus the Falcons, with the playoffs in the balance. For New Orleans fans with long memories, the contest makes for […]
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Landrieu’s last Lap? A cornucopia of coverage….
In the past month I’ve published a number of pieces, big and small, on the runoff in the Louisiana Senate race. The most comprehensive was here, in a 1,600-word feature […]
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In Memory of Christopher Thomas, Please Donate
Christopher Thomas, who died of respiratory failure last spring, was one of the most impressive young men I’ve met in a long, long time. He was president of the College […]
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Saints shouldn’t get cocky
Even though I predicted the Saints win yesterday, and even predicted Nick Toon’s first-ever NFL touchdown, I wasn’t anywhere near as impressed with the Saints’ performance as the T-P writers […]
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Saints will defeat Steelers
I’m a chronic complainer about the Saints, and of course I join most New Orleanians in finding very, very little to like about the Saints’ performance this year, from general […]
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Strong House freshman class
The day before the election, at National Review Online, I looked forward to an exceedingly strong possible incoming class of U.S. House freshmen (along with some other good ones just […]
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Impressed, Not Impressed
Not impressed with Chris Christie. Why Louisianans should be impressed with Gov. Jindal (but aren’t). Why Louisianans should not be offended with a postcard (and not impressed with Secretary of […]
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A Brilliant take on the wonderful U.S. Constitution
Here, I review the wonderful speech that U.S. appeals court judge Janice Rogers Brown made at the Heritage Foundation a few weeks ago. As part of my summation of Judge […]
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Feds take jobs from blind, send to Asia
First with Jim McElhatton in a lead news story in the Washington Times, and then in my own commentary at The Advocate in Louisiana, I report on a horribly misguided […]
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Shelby hoards; Obama fails
While Democratic candidates for the Senate sink in the polls, largely due to their direct affiliations with the failures of Barack Obama, Alabama’s Sen. Richard Shelby sits on an $18 […]
