Allen Toussaint’s childhood ‘Nights’
(Feb. 28 online, March 2 print edition, by Quin) So, you see, there’s this wonderful story involving the late New Orleans musical impresario Allen Toussaint. A Wall Street Journal review […]
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Gov. Landry chooses barbarity in death-by-nitrogen
(Official editorial of the Advocate/Times-Picayune, Feb. 16) It is with deep sadness and a sense of disgust we see that after decades Louisiana will restart executions of its death row […]
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From Quin: New direction for me
ANNOUNCEMENT: As of today, I am no longer with the Washington Examiner. I am excited to announced that today I begin a new job as full-time member of the editorial […]
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Buying Greenland would be good for everybody
(Official Washington Examiner editorial, Jan. 11) President-elect Donald Trump is not planning a military invasion of Greenland, nor should he. However, he does actually make sense when he suggests that […]
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French Quarter New Years once were less hazardous
(Jan. 2) Before al Qaeda and ISIS, before the age of attacks at crowded celebrations such as the Boston Marathon or the prelude to a Sugar Bowl, the “dangers” at […]
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Estimable people we lost in 2024
(Official Washington Examiner editorial, Dec. 31) It is easy for newspapers to pen dry remembrances of significant people who died in the past year, but harder and more important to […]
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Harris is open to ‘reparations.’ It’s ore proof she’s a radical.
(Oct. 17) When Vice President Kamala Harris repeated on Oct. 15 that she thinks the idea of racial “reparations” should be studied further, she evinced a radicalism she just can’t […]
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Good stories, post-storm, from North Carolina
(Oct. 10) In the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Helene in the North Carolina mountains, the plethora of anecdotal reports from family and friends are full of gratitude for an abundance of both public and private […]
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Outrageous execution of a probably innocent man
(Sept. 24) Note: This column was to no avail. The state executed Marcellus Williams anyway after the Supreme Court refused to intervene. Since then, I did find out that the knife […]
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Hovering hurricane hellishness
(Aug. 16) MOBILE, Alabama — The dread, unspoken but real, starts growing along the Gulf Coast at this time of year. The dread isn’t helped when the first sentence of […]
