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George Washington’s history? It’s complicated

“What do you mean that America’s youth know little about George Washington, except that he was a slave owner?” “Few schools teach children about George Washington anymore.

Fiscal cliff: Is Medicaid fueling opioid crisis?

EDITORS NOTE: This is the sixth of a series of articles on the Fiscal Cliff crisis facing Louisiana today. In prior articles we have discussed how Medicaid is bankrupting America and Louisiana financially, morally — and today we will talk about its connection to the opioid crisis.

La. isn’t in the running for Amazon location! In the current competition to land a new Amazon second North American headquarters, Louisiana pulled out all stops. It would have been quite a coup for a Louisiana location to land this big prize with some 50,

In the current competition to land a new Amazon second North American headquarters, Louisiana pulled out all stops. It would have been quite a coup for a Louisiana location to land this big prize with some 50,000 new jobs to the winner. But from the beginning, the Bayou State never had a chance.

We need to relearn the art of romance

I still have no idea why Laura Lindsey liked me, but she did. It happened during my sixth-grade year in the spring of 1974, when she transferred to our school. Laura had grace and style and was instantly embraced by the popular girls. She was out of my league, but I pursued her nonetheless.

National military parade needed

The president has suggested that the nation establish a yearly military parade to honor the service and the sacrifice of the current military and our veterans. He spoke of it as “a unifying moment for the country.”

Memo to Dan Rather: Shut up about memos

Old liberal media liars never fade away. They just rage, rage against the dying of their dinosaur industry’s light. I’m looking at you, Dan Rather.

I’m still cheering for Trump

Donald Trump sure hit it out of the park Tuesday night. Like millions of other people in America who tuned in to the president’s first State of the Union Address, I’m still cheering. I wasn’t in Washington, in Soviet California, or anywhere else in Trump’s America.

Trump the unifier? Don’t buy it

President Donald Trump, who’s never been shy about hammering his rivals and skewering his opponents, used his first State of the Union speech Tuesday night to call for unity as the nation attacks some of its biggest challenges.

‘Dreamers’ and demons

Xinran Ji, 24, had big dreams. But demons demolished them. The bright hopes of young Xinran Ji, a University of Southern California engineering student from Inner Mongolia, died in 2014 at the hands of a then-19-year-old “Dreamer” and his thug pals.

How bad is state fiscal mess?

The sky is falling, the sky is falling. At least the Louisiana fiscal sky is in a tailspin, or so says the Governor and a number of legislative leaders. The hue and cry is for one billion dollars in new taxes along with significant fee increases.