Columns

Learn when to shut up, Mr. President

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.

Louisana’s KKK history recalled after Charlottesville

Focus is back on the Ku Klux Klan following the tragic violence in Charlottesville last week. The Southern Poverty Law Center released data alleging that the Klan is still active in Louisiana, particularly in the central and northwest part of the state.

You can’t be an American and fly the Confederate flag

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.

August flood exposed Mayor Landrieu

For months, the liberal news media has been championing New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu as a potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2020. Landrieu was praised for his “courageous leadership” in taking down four Confederate monuments in New Orleans earlier this year.

Linscombe helped grow rice industry

Over a century ago, a group of forward-thinking men decided the flat prairie area of Crowley was the ideal spot to put a rice experiment station. Their dream over the years has proven to be spot on.

Americans are proud to be getting dumber

A North Carolina man walks into a popular Washington D.C. pizzeria and opens fire, telling police upon his inevitable arrest that he came to “self-investigate” a widely debunked conspiracy theory involving former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Trump should drain the EPA swamp

Like the road to Hell, liberal ideas are usually paved with good intentions. But, as Ronald Reagan once said, “The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.”

How did the Dems’ IT scandal suspects get here?

Here is a radical proposition: The public has a right to know the immigration status and history of foreign criminal suspects.

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. But at this late stage of the game QB Donald Trump and his Republican teammates are going to need a Hail Mary.

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.