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Last 50 Posts

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• Writer has mixed emotions about Kiffin, Tigers signing NFL players; admits he’d be critical if coach was still at Ole Miss

• Dolly Parton joins Hank Williams, Kristofferson, Buffett, Joplin, other recording artists with Louisiana ties to die

• Irate grandmother taking on Corrections Department over June beating of grandson in Elayn Hunt Correctional Center

• Ontario Premier Doug Ford had the courage to say what Repugs in Congress are too terrified to say: ‘Kiss my ass.’

• What vetting process does Trump use in giving out pardons? No fewer than 20 recipients have become repeat offenders

• Audits of state universities show each school had significant deficits in athlet programs; ULL, LA. Tech had the largest

• The same guy who said, ‘Fight, fight, fight’

• Don’t argue with a MAGGOT; show them this

• What part of this don’t you understand?

• Trump tries to take credit for Biden-passed legislation but the real story is how Tauzin got us there in the first place

• Voters of Louisiana’s 4th Congressional District: you have a choice–and a say–in who will represent your best interests

• Want to know where library controversy is headed?

• Want to hear the latest joke? House passes (really) a bill prohibiting insider trading but it’s doomed in the Senate

• Jayden Daniels controversy becoming Strait of Jersey No. 5; not going away quickly as LSU’s football season approaches

• The only problem with Cassidy voting for Blanche after promise that $1.8 billion slush fund was ‘dead’? It isn’t.

• There’s just no end to Sen. Bill Cassidy’s embarrassments…

• Those unreported Letlow stock trades? Turns out one of those was in Meta’s planned Richland Parish data center

• The indisputable legac of Bill Cassidy…

• Hunterbrook Media reveals complex corporate structure of LaSalle Corrections in lengthy, in-depth investigative piece

• PCSA amended to death; bill not taken up by Senate before adjournment. Sponsors hope will be taken up in September

• Liz Murrill and Jeff Landry: cold-hearted Repugnantcans who consistently deny legal claims of wrongfully-convicted

• Every day is laundry day for the Trump enterprise

• Sometimes, no explanation is even necessary…

• Monroe organizations set National Day of Action in calling for major ICE reforms, including detention center closures

• ‘Know-nothing’ Johnson, ‘say-nothing’ Kennedy: it’s time for action and far past time for ignorance and inane platitudes

• St. Tammany family court judge overturned on appeal after order shipping daughter off to Utah home for troubled teens

• How ’bout it, Mikey?

• Did a family court judge award full custody to an abusive father? Mom says yes, that judge refused to view photos

• Disclosure of NDA requirements by the lyin’ press results in angry pushback by LA. citizens as legislators run for cover

• Notable Quotable (in their own words)

• If David Hearn sued Trump, Pirro and asked trial to be held next to Reflecting Pool, that would be appropriate & funny

• Here’s yet another survey that ranks Louisiana near the bottom: the deplorable condition of our roadway system

• Cha-ching! Big Oil rakes in record second quarter profits as American motorists struggle to cope with inflated fuel costs

• $75 million for 250 new Escalades for Trump motorcade ($300,000 per vehicle, including purchase, customizing)

• While Landry carries out vendetta against New Orleans and demands NDAs, state rankings continue to sink ever lower

• Today’s devout family values evangelical Trump supporters

• As 2026 football season approaches, so does speculation on NCAA pullout; HBUC revisions left blank in draft proposal

• Reagan’s trickle-down economics: opportunity for corporate mergers, acquisitions, buyouts which in turn kill competition

• TV network news at its finest (with lots of commercials); if you like local news, you love attorney ads and crime report

• Ever thought about becoming an ICE agent?

• ICE: Government-sanctioned terrorism, abuse and thuggery. Best way to combat Gestapo-like tactics: boycott supporters.

• Well, it’s not like a ‘pledge’ hasn’t been broken before…

• 212 years later, the second Battle of New Orleans rages on; Landry, Murrill ironically decry ‘weaponization’ of justice

• If you’ve never experienced EBR Family Court version of ‘justice,’ consider yourself lucky, but nonetheless beware

• To be fair to President Inepstein, he did keep some promises, but none seemed to address real needs of American citizens

• You want an illustration of real courage? Look no further than Pascagoula, Ms., and the story of Kathleen McIlwain

• Rock rocks on despite IRS $15M lien; poses with elk on Fla. beach that recalls memory of RFK Jr. and that dead whale

• Déjà vu all over again as DHS secretary threatens jail time a-la Murrill to dissidents to Trump order for state voter rolls

• If PCSA approved in present form, major conferences will head for NCAA exit over one issue: pooling of media rights