A couple of weeks ago, Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024, the Catahoula Parish School Board met to reaffirm its commitment to irrelevance and magical thinking. In Louisiana the local school boards tend to be rubber stamps anyway, but in the rare event that they may do something important, it would be good if they rose to the occasion. And in this particular case, it would not have been a very high rise.

The centerpiece of the Police Jury meeting, Monday, April 8, 2024, was an annual appropriation of $30,000 dedicated to drug abuse abatement resulting from a major class action lawsuit settlement. The case involved pharmacies and distributors including CVS, Johnson & Johnson, Walgreens, and in the case of Louisiana, Walmart, but not Allergan or Teva as in some other states.

I was stunned this past Easter weekend to learn that President Biden had declared Easter Sunday to be 'Transgender Visibility Day.' Easter, the highest, holy day of the Christian year for millions of Americans and still billions more around the world. That’s the day President Biden thought best to endorse and highlight transgenderism.

People in Catahoula Parish know something about illegal drugs. Probably most know something about one church or another. We have a lot of churches. Many are not really very large. They tend to be what one pastor I knew called “family chapels”, their small congregations held together as much by genetics as the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It may seem strange that with so many churches that we would still have so many personal tragedies connected to illegal drug use. There may be an explanation, and it isn’t necessarily due to a lack of evangelization.

After President Biden's failure last week to veto a U.N. resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cancelled a visit by an Israeli delegation scheduled to meet with Biden in D.C. to discuss the planned invasion of the Hamas-infested city of Rafah in Gaza. Biden's cowardly decision to abstain from voting allowed the resolution, backed by China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and many other dangerous enemies of both the U.S. and Israel, to pass.

I had hoped the Supreme Court would hear this case, and on an expedited basis. That’s because the issues presented in the case lie at the very core of our Constitutional separation of powers.

Catahoula Parish and Communist China share a difficult problem: They both have a lot of fat people. Or at least they have people who really would not mind losing a little weight. In fact, China, with a population of about 1.4 billion, has 600 million who are overweight, of whom there are 200 million who are obese. Imagine that: China has almost twice as many people who are overweight as there are people living in the entire United States. Furthermore, according to the Wall Street Journal (“World’s Obesity Capital Is Hungry for Ozempic”, 02/20/2024), general officers in the Army of the People’s Republic of China are complaining that many recruits are now too big to fit inside a tank. The shame of it all.

I have been asked that question many times but have never addressed it in an article. The subtext of this question is usually something like this: “How do you represent people you think may actually have committed the crime?”

Police Jury Vice-President Micah Hughes took charge at the Police Jury’s meeting this past Monday, February 26, 2024. President Rodney Sones had to attend to a family health emergency, a circumstance with which I have experience and considerable sympathy.

I strongly support and commend Gov. Landry’s efforts to address the crisis of violent crime in Louisiana. However, I respectfully suggest that one proposal is ill-advised and does nothing to advance that goal. Senate Bill 8 seeks to “create the office of the state public defender within the office of the governor for the delivery of indigent defense services.” My interest stems from the fact that roughly half of my current law practice is comprised of work I do at the Caddo Public Defender Office. In that capacity, I have witnessed firsthand what is required to manage a public defender office in one of our state’s largest parishes. My concern is twofold.