All the pollsters had Gov. John Bel Edwards outpolling his two opponents, U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham and businessman Eddie Rispone, even when adding together the Republicans' totals. They were wrong, every last one of them.
New Orleans native Ellen DeGeneres did her hometown proud this week. The daytime television talk show host got clobbered by the social media mob after she was pictured at a Dallas Cowboys football game sitting next to former Republican President G…
Election day is Saturday, and it looks like Gov. John Bel Edwards will get a second term. But he probably won’t win it all this weekend and should end up going head to head with one of his two Republican challengers, U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham or bus…
There are two prevalent schools of thought on our current president, Donald J. Trump. Some view him as a boastful, racist, deceitful man colluding with foreign governments in an attempt to destroy his political enemies. They demand he be impeached.
It seems odd the problems swirling around Medicaid expansion, one of Gov. John Bel Edwards’ self-proclaimed signature achievements, haven't been more of a campaign issue. On his second day on the job, Edwards signed an executive order expanding Me…
A lot people seem to view government, not the private sector or the free market, as the arbiter and genesis of all things good.
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Negative political campaigns can work whether they’re true or not. Just ask businessman Eddie Rispone. Rispone’s ads personally attacking fellow Republican candidate Ralph Abraham have caused him to leap past the congressman in at least one poll. …
We recently learned the state of Louisiana for the third year in a row produced a budget surplus. Good thing, right? Wrong. It’s borderline scandalous.
Louisiana gubernatorial candidate Eddie Rispone told us a lot about himself this week. The wealthy businessman began running a television campaign ad targeting U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham, a fellow Republican. Rispone, Abraham, and incumbent John Bel …
Eleven years ago, seven million Californians, a majority of ballot initiate voters, approved banning same-sex marriage. Liberal California, not Alabama.
Two Louisiana leaders find themselves in the center of the debate over what to do about our nation’s all-too-common mass shootings. Both Republican U.S. Sen. John Kennedy and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise are often featured in national media i…
Six years ago, former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, a Democrat, convinced those that matter that New Orleans needed a new airport. Landrieu said the project would cost $650 million and be completed by May 2018. The timing was perfect. The dead…
Republican U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham, who’s challenging incumbent Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards, has riled up some in the media with a recent campaign ad.
New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell is once again revealing just how far out of the mainstream her politics are. The California-born Democrat signaled on Monday her support for the four hard-left leaning congresswomen known as “The Squad.”
A new report out this month should end the debate over whether Louisiana’s economy has fallen behind the rest of the nation's under the leadership of Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat. Even the most talented of politicos would have a difficult tim…
Even John Bel Edward’s harshest critics have to admit the first-term Democratic governor is good at running budget surpluses. We recently learned that, for the third year in a row, Louisiana will have a budget surplus. The first three budgets Edwa…
As deeply divided as Americans are on most issues, most do not support infanticide. Why would they? Why would anyone? A poll conducted earlier this year by a pro-life group, the Susan B. Anthony List, found 77% support legislation ensuring doctors…
Gubernatorial candidate and Republican businessman Eddie Rispone wants to make sure you know he really, really, really likes Donald Trump.
Good news for those still steaming over the indefensible no-call that kept the Saints from this year’s Super Bowl. Orleans Parish Civil District Court Judge Nicole Sheppard on Monday said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and three referees will have…
The Trump economy has been good for America. Since Republican President Donald Trump took office, total non-farm employment has grown by 5.6 million jobs. America currently has more than 7 million jobs open, according to the U.S. Department of Lab…
Envy is ugly. Some folks just don’t like it when others have nice stuff. Envy says, “Why should you have nice things when I don’t?” Nothing awakens the envious more than opulence.
Republican State Sen. Conrad Appel of Metairie seems to have stirred up a hornet nest, politically speaking, with a recent Facebook post.
It’s always interesting when the national media weighs in on Louisiana politics. The New York Times ran a Sunday story headlined, “In Louisiana, messaging during storms carries political weight.”
Lawyers often get a bad wrap as less-than-honest leeches looking to sue deep-pocketed companies in hopes of buying a third vacation home. Some of them do indeed suck the life out of the economy, raising the costs of just about everything for the r…
Jeremy Mardis had a short life. He was gunned down by two Marksville police officers on Nov. 3, 2015. He was 6 years old. Mardis was also autistic.
Eighteen-year-old Theron Glover has been a busy young man as of late. Police have already arrested him several times this year, and he currently faces 160 pending charges in New Orleans Criminal District Court. Last week, police arrested Glover ag…
Someone describing himself as a conservative Republican recently told me he voted for John Bel Edwards because he simply didn’t like David Vitter personally. The voter wondered, "How much damage could a liberal Democrat like Edwards do with a Repu…
In Louisiana you can’t trim trees, install alarms, arrange flowers, or even braid hair without a license. But apparently you can practice law in Orleans Parish without a license. Ashley Crawford represented more than 100 criminal defendants in cou…
Are you like me when you heard about a poll showing Republican President Donald J. Trump’s numbers plunging in Louisiana? You probably thought that can’t be right.
A witness caught on cellphone this past week video of a man, shirtless and wearing sagging pants, walking the streets of the French Quarter searching for someone, anyone, to punch in the face. It was tough to watch.
It was one of the biggest upsets in the history of Louisiana politics. In a state where Republican President Donald J. Trump would get a whopping 58 percent of the vote in 2016, a Democrat, John Bel Edwards, smoked his opponent in the November 20…
Gov. John Bel Edwards and legislators failed miserably this past session when it comes to solving one of the state’s biggest problems adversely impacting just about everyone — out-of-control auto insurance premiums.
You’ve probably heard the biblical story of David and Goliath. Goliath, a nine-feet tall cocky Philistine, mocked and terrorized Israel for 40 days in an attempt to goad the nation into war. The Israelis lived in terror and refused to challenge th…
The word "evil" clearly doesn’t mean what it used to. Actress Alyssa Milano recently described as “evil” the wave of legislation sweeping the country protecting the unborn. Milano’s convinced 49 other actors to sign a petition calling for an indus…
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, is about to do the unthinkable. He’s supporting one of the strictest abortion bills, ever. Many of his supporters are furious.
Most would agree the goal of any new government entitlement program should be to give someone a hand up, not a handout. The last thing you would want a government program to do is encourage a participant to stop paying his own way. But that appear…
State Sen. Wesley Bishop, D-New Orleans, falsely claimed more than $20,000 in sick pay from his employer, Southern University of New Orleans. And while Bishop has been forced to give the money back, it appears the senator won’t be held accountable…
James Hodgkinson was a man of hate — especially when it came to Republicans. The 66-year old former home inspector from Illinois belonged to Facebook groups like “Terminate the Republican Party,” “Expose Republican Fraud,” “Liberal Democratic Soci…
There’s never been a better time to be alive than today. We’re living longer, eradicating worldwide poverty quicker, and as a nation, we’re less violent.
Political strategists often say incumbent candidates face an uphill battle when a high percentage of voters remain undecided. The idea is if they don’t like you by now, they never will. This is why the latest poll involving this year’s race for Lo…
When politicians use the full force of government to oppress the free market, they usually find a cause that pulls at the heart strings of low-information voters. Louisiana Senate Bill 186 is a perfect example.
A swing and a miss. That best describes Republican U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham’s recent attack on Gov. John Bel Edwards. Abraham, who’s challenging Edwards in the governor’s race, accused the Democrat of criticizing President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax c…
What’s fair? Fair is treating everyone the same, right? If that’s true, the way Louisiana currently collects state income taxes is anything but fair.
Last week, students at Mildred Osborne Charter School on Curran Boulevard in New Orleans East were playing in the school yard like they normally do on a typical day. They were laughing, running, jumping as kids tend to do. What they didn't realize…
Dan Fagan: Oil companies not the real culprits in Louisiana's wetlands loss; it may be Mother Nature
A little more than a year ago, The Wall Street Journal called out Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards for talking up lawsuits against oil companies doing business in the state. Not a good look for Louisiana in a publication with a well-established cor…
New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell, a Democrat, secretly slipped out of the city last week with 35 of her closest friends and headed to Cuba, ostensibly in an attempt to learn more about how communists do their thing in the small island nation.
There is no book more influential in American culture than the Bible. It’s by far the world’s all-time bestselling book. Close to 4 billion copies have been sold worldwide in the past 50 years.
Just when you thought Louisiana’s politicians would give their tax-raising ways a rest, a bill has been filed that would close to double the state’s gas tax.
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, a Republican and consistent advocate for the unborn, will use a rare parliamentary procedure next week to force a vote on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. The Louisiana congressman says the bill …
In 2001, then-state Rep. Karen Carter Peterson, a Democrat, voted to create a self-exclusion list allowing problem gamblers to confidentially sign up to ban themselves from casinos. Sixteen years later, in 2017, Peterson put her own name on the ve…
The good news for LaToya Cantrell is in November 2017 she became the first female mayor of New Orleans. The bad news is her election victory also made her president of the Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans.