Jim Guirard, patriot: RIP
By Quin Hillyer; Some people serve their country for years, very well, without the recognition and thanks that is their due. So it was with Jim Guirard, who died on […]
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Sean Payton’s Civics Lesson
by Quin Hillyer at Opportunity Lives: When New Orleans Saints football coach Sean Payton held a press conference Wednesday to announce, after weeks of public speculation otherwise, that he would […]
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Roundup: Fond remembrances, and more…..
This is one of the best eulogy tributes I have read in a long, long time: On Florence King, by National Review publisher Jack Fowler; And it can truly be […]
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How the Profit Motive Can Help Save Wetlands
By QUIN HILLYER Dec. 25, 2015 12:43 p.m. ET…. Jesuit Bend, La. — Louisiana loses at least 25 square miles of coastal wetlands each year—a grievous destruction of ecologically crucial habitat and of […]
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Roundup: Cold Water on Global Warming,and more
This is fascinating evidence that the theory of appreciable, man-caused climate change may be a bunch of hot air: Exclusive: NOAA Relies on ‘Compromised’ Thermometers That Inflate US Warming Trend, […]
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N.O. Should Come Together Around Lee Circle
The Battle of New Orleans Monuments should come to an end through compromise. Mayor Mitch Landrieu should promote the compromise and thus become a uniter and a healer, rather than […]
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Media Dog Ben Carson, but Bite Own Tails
In a long day in Mobile, Ala., on Thursday, Dr. Ben Carson struck all the right grace notes, creating as vivid a contrast with Donald Trump’s histrionic August visit as […]
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Race for LA Governor Raises the Undead
by Quin Hillyer A year ago, the Louisiana Democratic party seemed as dead as its allegedly habitual voters from New Orleans cemeteries. Yet with a governor’s race quickening to its […]
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How Boehner Got His Groove On
by Quin Hillyer As John Boehner this week steps down as Speaker of the House, it’s worth telling the never-reported tale of how Boehner first got on the House Republican […]
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New Alabama Voter Concerns are Bogus
If Alabama really were making it more difficult for people to register to vote, with a particular burden falling on minorities, that would truly be cause for concern. The national […]
