Pelican Institute has good criminal justice ideas
(March 23) Being tough on criminals isn’t the only way to reduce crime. Almost since its inception, the conservative Pelican Institute has pushed what it calls a “smart on crime” […]
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Editorial: Fight against nitrogen executions should continue
(Official Times-Picayune/Advocate editoria;, March 23) The execution last week of Jessie Hoffman Jr. marked the end of a 15-year-long stretch in which the death penalty was on the books in […]
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LA schools shouldn’t adopt ‘Gulf of America’ nonsense
(March 16 print edition, T-P) The Gulf of Mexico is the Gulf of Mexico is the Gulf of Mexico. The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education just wasted everybody’s time, […]
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Hideous nitrogen execution in LA moves closer
NOTE: After I wrote this column below, a Fifth Circuit appellate panel voted 2-1 to overturn the injunction described below, thus putting the execution back on schedule for Tuesday evening, […]
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Plan to exempt NIL earnings from taxes is so, so wrong
(Editorial by the Times-Picayune/Advocate, March 18) Perhaps the best response to a new tax-exemptionhttps://www.google.com/search?q=you+cannot+be+serious&oq=you+cannot+be+serious&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCggAEAAY4wIYgAQyCggAEAAY4wIYgAQyBwgBEC4YgAQyBwgCEAAYgAQyBwgDEAAYgAQyBwgEEAAYgAQyBwgFEAAYgAQyBwgGEAAYgAQyBwgHEAAYgAQyBwgIEAAYgAQyBwgJEAAYgATSAQkzMzI5ajBqMTWoAgiwAgHxBaAGxZlSyYX68QWgBsWZUsmF-g&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:340d0893,vid:t0hK1wyrrAU,st:0 idea in the Louisiana legislature is to quote a famous on-court explosion by tennis great John […]
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The abject stupidity of Trump’s tariffs
(Official Advocate/Times-Picayune editorial, March 9) President Donald Trump’s tariff wars are a terrible idea anyway, but Louisiana’s congressional delegation should be particularly opposed to them and eager to reassert congressional […]
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LA’s new scholarship program is wise
(March 6) A boffo early response to the LA GATOR education program is a reminder that the biggest advantage of school choice programs is, yes, the ability to choose. Choice is […]
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Louisiana delegation must stand up for Ukraine
(Column by Quin Hillyer, Feb. 24) Eleven years to the week after Russian forces moved to steal Crimea from Ukraine, three years to the day after Russia began its murderous […]
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Radioactive gypsum: The right conservative response
(Column by Quin Hillyer, Feb. 23 in print) Even conservatives should recognize that the federal government, in certain circumstances, has an important role in basic scientific research. When millions and […]
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Editorial: Warnings on making flotsam of gypsum
(Official editorial of the Advocate/Times-Picayune, Feb. 20) Significant public concern should attend the news that state regulators are allowing Mosaic Fertilizer in St. James Parish to expand its already-massive mound of slightly radioactive […]
