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Opinion
Perspectives and reflections that challenge, question, and inspire.
Shepherd needs to pull up his big-boy britches
In August 2007, after City Councilmember Oliver Thomas resigned and admitted to taking bribes, his attorney was asked about the possibility of Thomas providing helpful testimony to Federal prosecutors. Shepherd ultimately confessed, and assumed total responsibility, but
Bermdoggle: The real barrier that Gov. Jindal will have to overcome
Comparing Detroit to NOLA after Katrina not so far off
I once mocked a pundit for comparing Detroit to “post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans." I'm rethinking that.
Ohio State gets a Boehner; Arkansas gets the bird
I love to handicap college football games by carefully analyzing the merits of each team’s mascots, and factoring in ominous current events that might foretoken disaster for a particular football squad.
Mash this column, and Beck kisses Soros at a Hornets game to save the wetlands from oil
From Hornets to Glenn Beck to sand berms, here are various follow-ups to previous items.
Reason’s greetings: BESE sees the light in textbook debate
Educators agree that high school students deserve to learn “the very best science.” Hallelujah, right? Not quite.
Jindal, Palin show some spine (on the bookstore shelves)
It’s nice to see conservatives standing up for our freedoms
Despite a painfully embarrassing incident at an airport scanner checkpoint, I’m still not totally on board with the sudden backlash against the new security procedures, which strikes me as oddly timed and perhaps disingenuous.
Talk one way, Walker the other
State Rep. Walker Hines seemed like he was in a hurry this morning as he grabbed a quick beverage at a coffee shop in Broadmoor and drove away in a black Cadillac Escalade. Shortly thereafter, this Times-Picayune news story broke:
