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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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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Saints’ fans’ obsessions are the best
(March 20) “We really need a guard. Why haven’t we made a strong play for a starting left guard?!?” Note the “we.” This is how obsessive New Orleans Saints fans […]
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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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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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Avegno, Gautreau’s: Family restaurants are good Rx
(March 9) There’s absolutely nothing in the United States like the love affair Louisiana has with food and drink. When this newspaper last week published Ian McNulty’s wonderful review of […]
