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by | Aug 2, 2022

This column has talked about the highly entertaining yet thoroughly uncompetitive Senate race in Louisiana in which John Kennedy is certain to win reelection against a host of hapless contenders. But developments in that race which were 100 percent foreseeable…

by | Feb 13, 2022

An interesting thought experiment can be had in this: what would Malcolm X think of current events and American race relations if he were around today? Going solely by the statements of the combative 1960s black leader, one might project…

by | May 18, 2021

In this space there has been a serial focus on the notion that, in the words of the first column in the series, we are governed by people who suck. Mostly, this is a phenomenon easily verifiable by examining the…

by | Dec 8, 2020

Last month, just a few days before announcing at a press conference airing statewide that Thanksgiving celebrations involving participants from multiple households would contribute to a deadly spread of COVID-19, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards was photographed cavorting, sans mask…

by | Oct 27, 2020

On Friday, amid all the clamor over the presidential election and other national doings, an interesting thing happened as the Louisiana Legislature wrapped up a four-week special session billed as an attempt to relieve some of the state’s many economic…

by | Jun 16, 2020

Yesterday here at The American Spectator, the estimable Doug Bandow posted a very well-reasoned column containing possibly the best argument yet made for why the statue of Robert E. Lee that sits atop a pedestal in Richmond, Virginia, and all…

by | Apr 15, 2020

For some reason, both sides of the political fence felt the need to erupt when President Trump said Monday, perhaps with less-than-perfect presidential manners, that reopening the American economy in a couple weeks (it had better not be much longer)…

by | Nov 21, 2019

We’re coming to the point, and rapidly, in which it’s safe to absorb any national-media narrative about a given event with a healthy dose of derision and a certainty that it is abject gibberish. In that vein, the immediate and…

by | Nov 8, 2019

I’m perfectly aware that I could easily write a column on the impeachment mess bearing this same headline, and I may do so in the relatively near future. For now, though, we’re discussing a subject with a similar pattern of…

by | Oct 17, 2019

Had the reverse happened on Saturday night in Louisiana, you can bet you’d be seeing the legacy media reporting nonstop the results of the state’s primary elections as A Rejection of President Trump’s Policies and Performance and an Ominous Sign…

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