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We have not heard any official or even reliable information on the reasons, but we do know that Jackson Parish Sheriff Andy Brown and his chief investigator, Deputy Donovan Shultz abruptly resigned (though word is they’re calling it “retirement”) their positions barely a week after LouisianaVoice published a story about their unsuccessful attempt to market expensive “skin substitute” bandages made of dried placenta to a Ruston doctor.

Brown was serving his sixth term as sheriff and word was, he was planning to run for reelection before today’s sudden turn of events. Shultz, who is a business partner of Brown, is a veteran of more than 20 years in law enforcement.

Plenty of rumors are circulating around their sudden departure, including a report that a third deputy also stepped down at the same time. A quick check by LouisianaVoice, however, revealed a report that he actually retired more than four years ago.

One local critic whose vulgarities caused us to ban him from posting his comments, accused us of “hiding behind a phone screen” (whatever that might have meant) despite the fact that my name was at the top of my most recent – and this one as well – story. Speaking of hiding, that individual has yet to reveal his own name, going instead by “Unknownuser2252025.”

That aside, everything we have published about Brown and Donovan, with the exception of the report about the sales call in Ruston (which came from a person with close, personal knowledge of the event) has been straight from prior news accounts and/or public records, including 83 violations in the treatment of youth in his care and the state’s subsequent cancellation of its contract with him to house juvenile offenders.

Nor do I have any particular “angst” against Brown, as another writer suggested (at least he was civil). I even wrote about at least 40 sheriffs and deputies in my book Louisiana’s Rogue Sheriffs: A Culture of Corruption but somehow failed to include Brown or Shultz. Angst? I don’t think so.

Stay turned. If we learn anything more, I’ll pass it along. And it won’t be “behind a phone screen.”

Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein referred to Donald Trump as the “dog that hasn’t barked” and told his former companion Ghislaine Maxwell that an alleged victim had “spent hours at my house” with Trump, according to email correspondence released Wednesday by Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

“I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump,” Epstein wrote in a typo-riddled message to Maxwell in April 2011. “[Victim] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned.”

“I have been thinking about that … ” Maxwell replied.

That email exchange — which came just weeks after a British newspaper published a series of stories about Epstein, Maxwell and their powerful associates — was one of three released by the Democrats from a batch of more than 23,000 documents the committee recently received from the Epstein Estate in response to a subpoena.

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/12/nx-s1-5605582/epstein-files-release-trump-email-grijalva-massie

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/newly-released-emails-link-trump-to-epstein-victim-visits-and-contradict-trump-and-maxwell-statements/ar-AA1QiKYC

So, what’s the next move for family values Christian House Speaker Mike Johnson? How’s he gonna square this up with his loyal shielding of der Führer?

QUEENS, NEW YORK —In what has become a Veterans Day tradition for him, on Tuesday Donald J. Trump laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Podiatrist.

Trump made his annual pilgrimage to pay homage to the heroic doctors who issued bogus diagnoses to ensure that their privileged patients never answered the call of duty.

In an emotional tribute, Trump thanked the fallen foot specialists who bravely risked their medical licenses so that others facing military service could be free.

Choking back tears, he said, “They gave everything so people like me could give nothing.”

–With great appreciation to The Borowitz Report

Watch this all the way through.

This is how real leadership looks and sounds

Even as the Trump administration licks its wounds over Repugnantcans’ sorry performance in Tuesday’s elections (even including several state races in bedrock red-state Mississippi), another development surfaced on Thursday that, should it become another trend, should grab the attention of even our ADHD-afflicted Pedo-POTUS.

In case you haven’t been paying attention, the ASSOCIATED PRESS trumpeted the story on Thursday that a federal jury has found Sean Charles Dunn not guilty of assaulting a federal agent.

Who is Sean Charles Dunn? Well, other than being a potential draft choice for quarterback of the hapless New Orleans Saints, he’s the former Justice Department employee who became a T-shirt resistance symbol for pelting a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent with a deadly submarine sandwich.

Well, gosh-darn and dagnabbit, ol’ Yam Teats and his comically inept attorney general Pam Bodi decided that Dunn was a menace to society – unlike those “patriots” and “tourists” who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 (you remember — the ones Agent Orange pardoned). Accordingly, she had the subversive promptly arrested and brought up on charges. It had to be a major embarrassment for Bodi and jeanine Pirro, her inexperienced pick to lead the prosecution of this dangerous criminal.

Nothing like a little double standard to set the tone for this corrupt-to-its-very-core administration.

But I digress.

With a Democratic sweep in the elections earlier this week and Dunn’s acquittal (the system just keeps turning these psychopaths loose, doesn’t it?), it might behoove (as football coach L.J. “Hoss” Garrett used to say at my alma mater, Ruston High School) the Repugs to take notice. The worm may be turning at long last. The pendulum, which always swings both ways, may be swinging back to common sense and national equilibrium. The Party that abandoned Lincoln may be about to learn that democracy doesn’t much care for assholes.

Keep your eye on the ball, folks. More acquittals may well be on the horizon in the cases of LETITIA JAMES AND JAMES COMEY that will certainly temper the brash public comments of Bodi – but of course, not the brashness of Dear Leader. Some people, after all, just never learn. For the time being, however, Bodi is trying to learn time travel in order to overcome a hiccup in the persecution prosecution of her boss’s enemies.

Of course, this administration certainly has its untouchables. For instance, Bondi’s brother, BRAD BONDI represents two clients who were under federal investigation – but those charges have suspiciously been dropped by the U.S. Justice Department over which Pan Bondi reigns supreme, though she insists she had nothing to do with the dismissal of Bubba’s cases.

Should the Dems regain control of Congress, who knows what new trend might develop? Maybe a federal government that can – and will – function again. Perhaps even newfound respect from our allies and adversaries alike. Hopefully, members of Congress with spines.