REAPPORTIONMENT BLUES-NO RIGHT TO CHOOSE! It’s redistricting time for legislators, both in Louisiana and throughout the country. Criticism that decisions are being shaped behind closed doors is raining down on this politically sensitive process.  Lawmakers in my home state have scheduled a number of meetings to discuss the process of divvying up the various political...Read More

A full and lively radio program is scheduled for this Sunday, as I will have the pleasure of broadcasting live from Natchez, Mississippi.  The “Common Sense” radio show will be part of the Natchez Book festival and I will have broadcast facilities set up at historic Monmouth Plantation in the heart of one of the...Read More

Thursday, February 24th, 2011 New Orleans, Louisiana GET THE POLITICIANS OUT OF REAPPORTIONMENT It’s redistricting time for legislators, both in Louisiana and throughout the country. Criticism that decisions are being shaped behind closed doors is raining down on this politically sensitive process.  Lawmakers in my home state have scheduled a number of meetings to discuss...Read More

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Now I’m sure you will agree that everyone needs to get a way to the islands from time to time.  I tuned out last week on the back side of St. John in the Virgin Islands at the invitation of my law school roommate, and came back with some stories to tell.   Do you know...Read More

Remember singer Pat Boone?  The guy in the white bucks who played and sang in all those smaltzy movies, and who was the All American guy?  I ran into him up in Washington last week while attending the Washington Mardi Gras Ball.  He’s become a vociferous conservative politician.  I tried to be polite, and merely...Read More

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