U.S. House Speaker Johnson’s Visit to the Border Highlights the Crisis DHS Secretary bizarrely links crisis to “climate change”

DHS Secretary bizarrely links crisis to “climate change” U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Shreveport- LA) and numerous other House Republicans recently traveled to the Texas border town of Eagle Pass, at which border patrol officials record more than 4,000 contacts with illegal immigrants daily.

Beginning anew

Now that the new Police Jury has been sworn in by Clerk of Court, Larisa Holley Field, the formalities give way to the realities. In that respect, new Police Jury President, Rodney Sones, hit the ground running when he announced a meeting to be held Thursday evening at 5:30 P.M.

Many reasons to be hopeful about 2024

I think it is always important to assess where we are and where it seems we are going. To that end, I review here some of the numerous things about which we can be thankful and for which we can be hopeful as we head into 2024.

Rumour has it

“Rumour Has It”, a 2011 song by British pop star Adele, seems appropriate to a rumor (Americans and Englishmen don’t spell the same language the same way) that I heard the other day: It is that Rodney Sones may be the next Police Jury president.

Who will answer when you call

Chief David Squyres and the Sandy Lake Volunteer Fire Department (Fire District #4) have stepped up to do as much as volunteers can to stand in the gap and provide emergency medical services for Catahoula Parish.

Presidents fo formerly “Elite’ american colleges are unable to condemn Jewish genocide

I didn't intend to return to this topic so soon but was so appalled this week I felt compelled to.The presidents of Harvard, MIT and University of Pennsylvania were unable—after being asked several times to do so—to say that calls for the genocide of Jews violated their student codes.

Starting something new

The current Police Jury finished its business for the year on Monday, December 11, 2023. We will begin 2024 with four new jurors.Government depends for its stability and continuity on those behind the scenes.

U.S. Supreme Court Case Poses an Important Constitutional Question: What Constitutes ‘Income’ By Royal Alexander

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments this past week in what observers have deemed the most important tax case in decades.

A threat to commonsense

Democrat Party strategist James Carville, resident of New Orleans, educated at LSU and probably Louisiana’s most famous Democrat since Huey “The Kingfish” Long, reproached another Louisianan of recent repute, Mike Johnson.

Caddo Sheriff race highlights the neeed for voting requirements to be followed to ‘Defend Our Democracy’

I have closely followed the Caddo Sheriff election and the legal challenge occurring now in Caddo Parish District Court. The Nickelson Petition (lawsuit) is 80 pages long. The first 14 pages of the suit contain the allegations of mistakes and irregularities.