Speaker Johnson shouldn’t kiss Trump’s ring on tariffs
(April 10) Louisiana’s citizens need U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to stand up for their interests and exert Congress’ constitutional power and duty over trade and tariffs, not […]
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McLaughlin: Musk isn’t acting constitutionally
(Column at National Review Online by Dan McLaughlin, March 27) lon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have blown through Washington like nothing since, well, Donald Trump. For small-government […]
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J. Bennett Johnston served state and nation well
(Official editorial of the Times-Picayune/Advocate, April 1 print edition) Former U.S. Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, who died March 25 at age 92, was a significant player on national policy and […]
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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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Andrew McCarthy: Trump can’t do this to a law firm
Note: This column is by famed conservative lawyer Andrew McCarthy, oft-times a Trump defender, in National Review. (March 15) Every fiber in my being makes me want to ignore the Perkins […]
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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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A moral defense of the Trump-Vance treatment of Zelensky
Below, please see the thoughtful and defensible arguments in favor of how Trump and Vance have handled the Russia-Ukraine war and of how they handled Ukrainian leader Zelensky in the […]
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McLaughlin: Vance takes cheap shots in foreign policy
(Column by Dan McLaughlin at National Review Online, Feb. 28) There have been things to like, even on the international stage, about JD Vance’s tenure as vice president thus far. And […]
