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September 30, 2015
Thursday, October1st, 2015 Baton Rouge, Louisiana TIME FOR BOBBY JINDAL TO COME BACK HOME!  Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Don Meredith spent 20 years in the broadcast booth with Howard Cosell on Monday night football. When the game became out of reach in the waning minutes for the team behind, Meredith was famous for singing: “Turn...
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The cards do not read well for Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s last ditch and quixotic effort to gain the Republican presidential nomination. General Custer made his last stand, and now it looks like Jindal is doing the same. NO, the Fat Lady has not begun to sing, but I’m told she is lurking behind the...
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Weekend radio begins with a look at Donald Trump’s proposed tax plan for the country. Does it make any sense? Gabby Morrongiello writes for the Washington Examiner, and will brief us on what Trump’s ideas are all about. We will also talk with Ivy League scholar Brian Swain in comparing how Pope Francis reflects on...
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An old friend of mine died this week. He was a New Orleans dynamo. Rock and roll and rhythm and blues singer Frankie Ford, whose 1959 hit Sea Cruise brought him international fame, is passed at the age of 76. I’ve heard Frankie sing on any number of times, and his Big Hit, Sea Cruise...
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Time for a few laughs before we hunker down for our new column now posted and getting ready for our weekend nationally syndicated radio program.  Take a look and smile.
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