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(Sept. 13) For ex-CIA officer and anti-Semitic conspiracy monger Valerie Plame, who now is running for Congress in New Mexico, lies and smears apparently are fair game. Plame this week released a spectacularly […]
(Sept. 11) Tabasco sauce is apparently hot stuff for the U.S. armed forces, and Tabasco’s home site in Louisiana is a very cool place to visit. The sauce’s ubiquity in military […]
(Sept. 12) Ten years ago today, the most courageous lady I’ve ever known in politics, Beth Rickey, died alone and broke, 1,000 miles from her Lafayette, La., home. This week, 1,300 […]
(Sept. 5.) Since 1963, it has been strange but true that one of the best places to hear traditional, New Orleans-style jazz was 540 miles away in culturally dissimilar San […]
Anti-Pence column jumped the nastiness shark (Sept. 9). Sometimes a column features such unmitigated, unmerited nastiness that it requires an answer for the record. Such is the case with the latest outpouring […]
Old-School college football, minus the pomp, at old Tulane (Sept. 2). When Tulane, ignoring law, let Jim Harbaugh get away (Sept. 3). For one week, these Saints were in crazy […]
(Aug. 29) The Trump administration has just insulted our military by making it harder for some of them to gain citizenship for their children. The new “Policy Alert” promulgated by the […]
(Aug. 31) It is reasonable to criticize Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey for doing a skit in blackface in college. It’s also reasonable, given that this happened half a century ago, to […]
(Aug. 29) One of the more interesting political careers in recent decades probably ended this week, but electoral defeat shouldn’t preclude many years more of public policy work for former Congressman […]
States must not get addicted to quack lawsuits (Aug. 27): An Oklahoma judge was dead wrong Aug. 26 in ordering Johnson & Johnson to pay $572 millionto help fight the opioid crisis, […]
