Capital punishment via nitrogen is ‘cruel and unusual’
(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 […]
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Louisiana Gov. Landry is on a bad power trip
(Advocate/Times-Picayune, May 19) Whatever Gov. Jeff Landry is up to, it’s not conservatism as I’ve known it for 60 years now. It’s just a vaguely attitudinally right-wing power play. […]
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Louisiana redistricting ruling makes Supreme Court look bad
(May 1) In its reasonable decision to throw out Louisiana’s congressional redistricting plan on Wednesday, a federal judicial panel implicitly highlighted, yet again, the confusing mess both Congress and the Supreme Court have […]
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Louisiana is right to try banning public sector unions
(March 23, Advocate/Times-Picayune) The usual suspects are caterwauling that a slew of bills by conservative Louisiana legislators supposedly amount to an assault on workers’ benefits and “rights.” On some of the bills, […]
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Speaker Johnson and Leader Scalise are way AWOL on Ukraine
(Feb. 21, Advocate/T-P newspapers) This was published way back on Feb. 21, and STILL nothing has been done to live up to America’s needs. The lack of action is unconscionable. […]
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Gov. Landry, LA legislature adopt shameful ‘anti-crime’ laws
(Feb. 24 in the Advocate/T-P newspapers) Obviously, the following words fell on deaf ears, because the Legislature went ahead and passed all the bills that the below column said are […]
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Rep. Clay Higgins of LA spews lunatic theories about Capitol riot
(Advocate-T-P column, Nov. 19) U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, R-Lafayette, last week embarrassed both himself and the state of Louisiana by using a House hearing to lob conspiracy-theory gibberish at FBI […]
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Louisiana board would devalue high school diplomas
(July 29-30 in the Louisiana T-P/Advocate) Former President George W. Bush was right, on the education front, to blast what he called “the soft bigotry of low expectations.” Now the […]
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Louisiana legislature resolves to re-fight the Civil War
(June 17, Nola.com) Sixty-seven members of the Louisiana House and 27 state senators have embarrassed themselves and the state by adopting a loony-radical resolution saying the state has “the sovereign right” to […]
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Three Stormy-Trump Tales
Why should we even care if Trump is arrested? (April 4): This whole Donald Trump-Stormy Daniels-Alvin Bragg scene is just boring. Far too many people are hyperventilating, or worse, about […]
