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• Full Metal Jacket Reach Around: Red Beans and Rice Edition: A day late, but since it's a holiday weekend, I guess it's okay that the FMJRA comes on Sunday rathe...
  
• Chicken nuggets, anyone?: To my utter disgust, this video shows a teacher explaining to schoolkids how the various parts of a...
  
• Louisiana Sports: Tom Thobodeau, New Orleans Hornets, Gary Chouest, LSU: Sporting Goods...
  
• Lives, not marine life, should have priority in permitting: You could see this coming from far off, in this case the adoption by Gov. Bobby Jindal of the Pres.
  
• Alabama's White Sand Beaches: Part II: Saturday morning came early but Eric and I were ready to head to Tacky Jacks for breakfast to meet t...
  
• The Curious Campaign Of Hunt Downer | The Hayride: It’s been an interesting weekend for the 3rd District Congressional race, in which Jeff Landry and...
  
• Is another jumping the Jindal ship?: Bobby Jindal floor leader House Speaker Jim Tucker is sounding like a man breaking ties with the fi...
  
• Downer Camp: “Landry misleads voters about cocaine incident “: SOUTH LOUISIANA – In a recent article in the Daily Comet, Jeff Landry reversed an earlier posi...
  
• Oil Moratorium: ...
  
• Featured Bitchy Blogger: Many thanks to Bitchogram for making me their featured blogger for the week of September 1st. Do not...
  
• Louisiana state parks join geocaching craze: ...
  
• Why Withholding is the Key: Want to really make a difference in the tax structure of Louisiana and the United States? Here’...
  
• More Careful Plans: I sometimes wonder why I bother, but I DO plan things on this job. Like this week. I will be in Hous...
  
• Kudos To Realclearpolitics.com - They Have A Religion Section: As I have often mentioned I don't get the MSM papers of cutting the religious news media staff since...
  
• John's Friday Sooth.: John, our friendly neighborhood political soothsayer, has once again read at the entrails of the bod...
  
• U.S. unemployment rate rises as labor force expands: WASHINGTON (AP) — The unemployment rate rose in August for the first time in four months as weak h...
  
• Looking back on primary season and forward to “Super Tuesday II”: As the primary season wraps up, there are several things that are worth noting: (1) For the first t...