Columns

Learning about the bottom line in politics

Usually it takes a lot of boring three-yard runs and a thick cloud of dust to drive any important piece of legislation across the goal line in Washington.

Transgenderism in the military: Normalizing abnormal

While ISIS was burning people in cages and the Middle East was ablaze, former President Obama decided it was the perfect time to turn the U.S. military into a social experiment petri dish.

Mexico owns border death truck tragedy

Florida truck driver James Matthew Bradley isn’t the mastermind of the human smuggling ring that led to the grisly deaths of 10 illegal immigrants in his rig, which authorities found at a San Antonio Walmart over the weekend.

From ‘I alone can fix it’ to ‘I won’t own it’

A year ago this week, newly anointed as his party’s candidate for president, Donald J. Trump capped the Republican National Convention in Cleveland by ascending the podium in the Quicken Loans Arena, and offering these words:

Democrats ignoring history

I don’t know about you, but I have always loved to read and study Louisiana history.

Do we understand the significance?

It appears that all too many in our great country naively believe that the United States survived and thrived for the last 241 years, only because of the industry of its people. Such a prideful view point is indeed unfortunate.