I remember how incredulous I was in June 2001, when a mere tropical storm named Allison dumped more than 30 inches of rain on Houston, then moved to south Louisiana and kept pouring.
It was a fine day for protesting at Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C., where folks were enjoying their right to free speech in a productive and peaceable manner.
Will Labor Day be recognizable in another 20 years?
There has been a consistent drumbeat of late dominating the airwaves sung by a chorus of politicians, interest groups and talking heads … they want fiscal reform and they want it now.
Ah, the wisdom found in the New York Times. America’s newspaper (at least according to them) seems to find a reason every week to denigrate the backwards homefolks that populate Louisiana.
Louisiana is facing a fiscal cliff of $1 billion next July, and Gov. John Bel Edwards has been pushing for tax increases — but the House is demanding spending reductions instead.
All that’s left of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church is the steeple.
The red brick is faded and the windows are boarded up. But don’t ask the locals if they’re ever going to tear this monument down.
As we’ve said here before, Donald Trump has to learn to just shut up and let things go.
The failure to do that is the worst Achilles heel of a president who seems to have half a dozen Achilles heels.
Focus is back on the Ku Klux Klan following the tragic violence in Charlottesville last week.
OUTSIDE WINCHESTER, Va. — We were driving up Interstate 81 last Sunday afternoon, the radio on, the sun setting into the hills, when we passed a tractor-trailer truck, and saw Old Glory proudly snapping in the strong wind behind the cab.