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• Plan to exempt NIL earnings from taxes is so, so wrong

  By Quin Hillyer / 18 March 2025

  

  (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 […]

   

• The abject stupidity of Trump’s tariffs

  By Quin Hillyer / 11 March 2025

  

  (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 […]

   

• LA’s new scholarship program is wise

  By Quin Hillyer / 11 March 2025

  

  (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 […]

   

• Gov. Landry chooses barbarity in death-by-nitrogen

  By Quin Hillyer / 17 February 2025

  

  (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 […]

   

• ‘Back to Basics’ helps Louisiana’s education system

  By Quin Hillyer / 11 February 2025

  

  (Official editorial of the Advocate/Times-Picayune, Feb. 5) The hundreds of thousands of Super Bowl visitors to Louisiana already know they are coming to a cultural and entertainment mecca, but they […]

   

• Idea of de-nationalizing FEMA is just dumb

  By Quin Hillyer / 11 February 2025

  

  [Official editorial of the Advocate/Times-Picayune, Feb. 2) The congressional delegation from Louisiana, of all places, should be wary of suggestions that the federal government should withhold relief for natural disasters […]

   

• When home is Louisiana, yes, you can return

  By Quin Hillyer / 11 February 2025

  

  (Feb. 1) Early 20th-century novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote, “You can’t go home again.” Dorothy Gale, in “The Wizard of Oz,” though, said, “There’s no place like home.” Wolfe was wrong and […]

   

• From Quin: New direction for me

  By Quin Hillyer / 20 January 2025

  

  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 […]

   

• In a Louisiana-based case, Justice Barrett harms free speech

  By Quin Hillyer / 30 June 2024

  

  [June 29, The Advocate/Times-Picayune]  In a decision written by Louisiana native Amy Coney Barrett overruling lower-court judges from the state, on a case whose main plaintiff was a local anti-vaccine […]

   

• Capital punishment via nitrogen is ‘cruel and unusual’

  By Quin Hillyer / 28 May 2024

  

  (May 24)  MOBILE, Alabama, and NEW ORLEANS — What part of the words “cruel and unusual” do lawmakers in Louisiana and Alabama not understand? Imposing outlandish cruelty while inviting a […]