Columns

Bishop uses her bully pulpit to lecture Trump

When Donald Trump and his family settled down for a prayer service last week as part of the presidential inaugural events, he very likely didn’t expect a lecture from a wannabe member of “The View.” But that’s what he got.

Earning big bucks in state government!

How do you put a dollar value on the worth of a public official? Attorneys working full time for the state are often paid more than $400,000 a year. So how do you justify such large increases? The governor has a whole slew of people making $200,000 or more. How about this idea?

Why skilled trades are safe from AI

Here’s the bad news: many jobs are going to be eliminated by artificial intelligence, and, with the speed at which AI is evolving, it’s going to happen sooner rather than later.

Trump should pardon these peaceful protesters

President Joe Biden issued a flurry of pardons as he left office, but I’m more interested in getting some long overdue and deeply justified pardons from another president, the new occupant of the White House. This is my personal request to President Donald Trump: Free the Pro Life 21!

Are meteorologists a dying breed on local television?

“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”

Democrats behaving badly as Biden exits

Praise the Lord for his mercy. Joe Biden’s failed presidency has finally come to an end. There’s no predicting what Biden will do at the last minute to sabotage Donald Trump.

Reading in uncertain times

Our new president has just taken office, and one of his priorities is to seek out the possibility of buying Greenland. Its closest neighbor is Iceland, so maybe Trump can get a twofer, a lagniappe deal for both countries.

Unknown civil rights hero paved the way for MLK

I can’t believe Denzel Washington hasn’t played one particular early civil rights hero in a movie yet.

Did someone say ‘dead inventory?’

“It’s the goin’ thing!” That’s the phrase my late mother merrily exclaimed every time she got the opportunity to inform me of some quasi-trend she had discovered via “Good Morning America” or a similar program. Alas, I am waist-deep in merchandise that is definitely not the goin’ thing.

Lazy census takers or mean fishermen?

Either census takers were too lazy to count them, or south Louisiana fishermen were too mean to be counted. Those were the conflicting claims after the 1890 census of Cameron and other parishes on the Gulf turned out to be wildly wrong.