Jim Beam

Sleep well tonight. President Donald Trump is working on many of our problems here at home and some big ones around the world. Two of his major goals are to end Russia’s war against Ukraine and create a Middle East Riviera in Gaza. Trump administration officials are supposed to be meeting this week with European officials […]

Republican Gov. Jeff Landry continues to copy the tactics of President Donald Trump, his mentor, by changing rules and laws to fit his purposes. The governor’s administration, for example, tried to remove civil service protection that is enjoyed by 900 state employees. The Advocate in its report of Landry’s actions reminded its readers that Louisiana’s […]

Some news about Second Harvest Food Bank, one of my favorite charities, is extremely disturbing. Archbishop Gregory Aymond of New Orleans last Thursday fired the longtime CEO of Second Harvest and three members of the  nonprofit organization’s board of directors. The Advocate in its report of the firings said they appear to be tied to the […]

An East Baton Rouge Parish district judge struck a positive blow for freedom of speech Thursday when he told LSU it had to immediately allow law professor Ken Levy to return to teaching. The Advocate reported that Judge Donald Johnson’s temporary restraining order said LSU cannot infringe on Levy’s “rights to free speech and due […]

Republican President Donald Trump and Louisiana GOP Gov. Jeff Landry are both government deregulators. However, ask Google who was the deregulator president and the Regulator Review in 2023 called the late-President Jimmy Carter “The Great Deregulator.” Former Texas U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm in the Wall Street Journal said, “… The Carter deregulation helped fuel the […]

President Donald Trump has moved quickly to satisfy his voters and supporters. However, even some of them were surprised when he signed pardons for about 1,500 people involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot. “What they’ve done to these people was outrageous,” Trump said. “We’re going to release our hostages who, for the […]

A former administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has linked the devastating California wildfires to Hurricane Katrina that destroyed much of New Orleans in 2005. Craig Fugate, now a consultant in Gainesville, Florida, told the Los Angeles Times last week, “This is your Hurricane Katrina. It will forever change the community. It will […]

President Joe Biden in his Wednesday evening farewell address introduced what for many Americans may be a new word — oligarchy. The word is defined as a small group of people having control of a country, organization or institution. “Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally […]

Louisiana voters will decide the fate of four proposed amendments to the state constitution on March 29. Amendment 2 is the most detailed change to the constitution since voters approved a new constitution in 1974. Amendment 2 proposes to amend Article VII (the finance section) of the state constitution. It took 115 pages to list […]

Tell me about a new vaccine, and I’ll get it. The only vaccine problem I have experienced in my 91 years was to see a blister and then a scar on my arm from a smallpox vaccination when I was just a kid. When I went to basic training as an ROTC officer in 1955 […]