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Sports and Culture
Lutheran youth, 20,000 strong, do good in New Orleans
(July 24 print edition) When about 19,000 Lutheran high schoolers and some 1,000 adult mentors descend on New Orleans for…
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Gulf Coast Politics
Conservative journalist belongs to no political ‘team’
(July 27) “If you’re a conservative columnist, why do you often criticize conservative Republican politicians?” Six months back into full-time writing…
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Gulf Coast Politics
FINS with GUMBO, with a NEST: Saving young people
(July 20) Someone can be “tough on crime” and at the same time, without logical contradiction, also want to do…
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Gulf Coast Politics
Why is Gov. Landry messing up the levee board?
(A version of this is running as the July 22 official editorial of the Advocate/Times-Picayune) With the height of hurricane…
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Sports and Culture
This ‘murderer’ may be innocent, and deserves bail
(July 17) It is almost impossible to think of a punishment too severe for someone who — I hate to even…
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Gulf Coast Politics
Medicaid reforms are OK, and Cassidy saves Louisiana
(July 10, print edition) There is much to like and plenty to dislike about the misnamed “Big Beautiful Bill” signed into…
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Sports and Culture
Why tennis’ Arthur Ashe gives a lesson for NORD
(July 13) So, what does Wimbledon tennis have to do with a New Orleans inspector general’s critical report about the…
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National Politics
Matt K. Lewis: How Trump bullies GOPers into submission
(Column by conservative Matt Lewis, syndicated by the Los Angeles Times, July 8) Forget the doomsday predictions about what President Donald…
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Tom Rogan: How Putin is trying to ‘play’ Trump (AND vice-versa!)
(Column by Tom Rogan at the Washington Examiner, July 9) Russian state-aligned media is escalating its personal attacks on President Donald…
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National Politics
The Fourth of July supersedes bad politics
(July 4) Independence Day is such a favorite holiday of mine that when this nation had its bicentennial celebration in 1976,…
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