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 […]
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Catching Up: Good Senate candidates; Major wetlands proposal; and more
I have been very slow to update this site, so there is a plethora of material to share. First, separate features on two candidates for the U.S. Senate (Ed Gillespie […]
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The Rot within Common Core
My latest column for the Mobile Press-Register and al.com, limited to 600 words, gives concrete examples of how Common Core’s supposed “integration” of academic disciplines with each other actually leads […]
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Ryder Cup Regrets
Perhaps the less said, the better, about the embarrassing American results in this year’s Ryder Cup and indeed in Ryder Cups in general dating back 20 years, apart from Ben […]
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Mobile Council Backstabs City… but now, let’s find a solution
Mobile residents should have been fuming two days ago when the City Council reversed its earlier promises and overrode Mayor Sandy Stimpson’s veto of an extension of the city’s “extra […]
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Victory!!! (?) (Sales Tax to be Reversed!)
The public spoke, and the Mobile City Council apparently has listened. Now even Councilman Fred Richardson, a longtime, straightforward advocate of a permanent extension of Mobile’s “extra penny” sales tax […]
