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…
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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.
When government officials abuse power, they must be held accountable.
Victimized twice. That’s what it must have felt like for family members who lost loved ones to violence who testified before the House Criminal Justice Committee last week. Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, a Republican, orchestrated the hea…
There’s a myth that big business has disproportionate influence with government. Not in Louisiana.
The Washington Examiner reported Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, while attending the National Governors Association's conference in Washington, D.C. last weekend, “wouldn't disclose how he felt about the controversies members of his party have fa…
Is Louisiana the judicial hellhole some claim it is? Consider this: Our state leads the nation in auto liability lawsuits. In Louisiana’s most populated city, New Orleans, things are really out of control.
A doctor with a questionable past is reportedly aborting babies at two Louisiana clinics, one in New Orleans and the other in Baton Rouge. According to Louisiana Right to Life, Dr. Kevin Govan Work is working at the clinics as a solo practitioner,…
It’s been a rough go of it of late for New Orleans radio icon Scott Paisant, who goes by the name of Scoot. Many of us grew up listening to Scoot when he was a hip DJ on the New Orleans airwaves for many years. Now he hosts an afternoon talk show …
Former New Orleans mayor and potential presidential candidate Mitch Landrieu found himself in friendly surroundings recently as a guest on the hard-left-leaning “Pod Save America” podcast. The Pod Save America podcast makes CNN and MSNBC seem like…
Racism is such an ugly thing. A wise person follows the Rev. Martin Luther King's counsel and judges others by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. And yet in today’s politically divisive world, the word "racist" is thrown …
Louisiana Congressman Steve Scalise is a statesman and champion for the cause of freedom. He almost lost his life for his beliefs after a gunman, a left-wing activist, shot and almost killed him. If anyone knows gun violence, it’s Scalise. And yet…
I once heard someone say you can tell the measure of a man by the size of the problem it takes to discourage him. New Orleans Saints fans had every reason to wallow in discouragement and self-pity. We were unjustly robbed of the rarest of opportun…
During much of the 19th century, New Orleans was home of the largest slave market in the nation. Louisiana found itself on the wrong side of history when it came to slavery.
Have you thought about what former New Orleans sportscaster Buddy D might have said after the most impactful blown no-call in NFL history a week ago Sunday? Buddy wasn’t the easiest guy to understand, but what he lacked in enunciation skills, he m…
If you were wondering what gave Democrat John Bel Edwards a fighting chance to become governor of Louisiana, a deeply red state, the answer could be summed up with, he’s not Andrew Cuomo.
American economist and social theorist Thomas Sowell once wrote, “What do automobiles, guns and home-schooling all have in common that makes the liberals hate them? All these things reduce individual dependence on the government and the grandiose …
President Donald J. Trump made his way to New Orleans on Monday and was greeted with protests organized by several groups, including the hard-left New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice. The group describes itself as "a workers’ rights and …
President Donald Trump's tax and regulatory policies have set America's economy on fire. Trump slashed 22 federal regulations for every one created. According to The Hill, that move alone saved taxpayers $33 billion in regulatory compliance costs.
Just when you thought politics couldn’t get any nastier, there’s this. Supporters of one of the Democratic Party’s fastest-rising stars, New York U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have attacked House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Repu…
How much wealth the government should redistribute has divided us as a nation.
How do we begin to understand two men so void of virtue they would kidnap a 16-year-old girl, drug her, beat her, repeatedly rape her and then sell her for sex against her will? It’s a degree of evil so reprehensible you would hope the suspects, o…