The death penalty was rendered operative  recently.  Louisian’s current governor is pushing aggressively for a number of new death penalty sentences to be imposed. I was in public life in Louisiana for 28 years, but I never witnessed a death penalty decree, even though I was invited to witness such a punishment on a number...Read More

Monday, March 24th, 2025  Baton Rouge, Louisiana LIVING AND DYING IN LOUISIANA!  It’s been a number of years since the death penalty was carried out in Louisiana. A vicious rapist and killer, a fellow named Jesse Hoffman, was put to death at Angola State prison just two weeks ago. I can look back 21 years...Read More

Every year, Louisiana voters seem to be facing new constitutional amendments. Yes, our current constitution is 50 years old and needs some updating. But take it to the voters? Most voters don’t even know what they’re voting on. And our current constitution gets bigger and bigger. How about a new one? That’s the focus of...Read More

A nice turn out for my talk on my latest book Jesus, Jews, Jihad  and Me last week at the Country Club of Louisiana. Also picture below with me is Missy Couhig, owner of the Cundrum bookstore  in Saint Francisville, who who coordinated my talk to this group.Read More

Monday, March 17th, 2025 Baton Rouge, Louisiana THE CASE FOR A NEW LOUISIANA CONSTITUTION! Here we go again. Voters will soon be asked to consider changing the state constitution. Every time Louisiana has an election, it seems like  there is an effort to change what is one of the longest constitutions of any state in...Read More

The president has called for English to be the official language of America. Many people assume it already is. So how does the country deal with so many immigrants coming into the country, and what is the obligation of both the nation and each state to supply governmental materials in languages other than English? I...Read More

  Springtime means books festivals across the country, and The Lisburn Press is generally in attendance to show its numerous publications. We plan to be in attendance in New York next month for the New York International Book Fair. A number of book fair stops are planned for the summer months and in to the...Read More

Monday, March 10th, 2025 Baton Rouge, Louisiana MUST WE ALL SPEAK ENGLISH IN AMERICA? Should America have one official language-English? The President says yes, and asserts that a single shared language “is the core of a unified, cohesive society that serves to streamline communication and empowers new citizens to achieve the American dream.” Who could...Read More

  So the President want to change every reference to the Gulf Coast from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of Louisiana. And it has stirred up a hornet’s nest. A question is, will a name change really berelevant to people’s views of the Gulf on the East Coast or the West Coast? What...Read More

March 3rd, 2025 Baton Rouge, Louisiana SO CALL IT THE GULF OF WHAT? Our new president has stirred up a hornet’s nest by declaring that we no longer have a Gulf of Mexico. From now on, all government references will be to a Gulf of America. I grew up along the gulf coast, spending just...Read More

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Remember when you were a kid, iƒ by chance a swear word came out of your mouth, your mama would wash your mouth out with soap?  Soap bars would fly off the grocery store if such a practice took place today. It seems like every conversation I have, the use of vulgar swearwords are unfortunately...Read More

Monday, February. 24th, 2025 Baton Rouge, Louisiana WHY SO MUCH VULGER AND CRUDE LANGUAGE IN LOUISIANA? It would seem that the use uncouth swear words have become a way of description throughout the Bayou State, as well as across the country, from the President on down in recent years. The routine use of words that are...Read More

WOW, was it ever a fun show this past Saturday night as old friend Steve Judice was honored in Baton Rouge at the Red Dragon musical listening room. Steve is one of the best country and folk singers and songwriters in the deep South. A dozen artists played their favorite songs written by Steve and...Read More

Looks like our new Prez has an opinion on just about everything.  Recently, he weighed in on the Civil War. Quite frankly, he may have a point about whether or not the war should have taken place. Could cooler heads have worked out a solution without having over 1 million people be killed? I write...Read More

Now look folks. You cannot expect me to work all the time. Below is the picture from my recent visit to St. John in the Virgin Islands with my college roommate, Bill Weinberg, and his wife Lois.  If you want to just “chill out, what better place than in  these laid  back Islands. I’ll see...Read More

Monday, February 17th, 2025 Baton Rouge Louisiana PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THE CIVIL WAR! A number of former Presidents are being honored this week, as several new books have been released detailing actions of President Lincoln during the Civil War. President Donald Trump continues to express his opinion on virtually every subject involving America, both past...Read More

Well our new president, Donald Trump, is decorating his new office. And who is the main portrait you see as you walk in? It’s our seventh president, “Old Hickory” himself, Andrew Jackson. Why does Trump love Jackson so much? It’s all in my new column. And Louisiana is quite in the mix of the story....Read More

Monday, February 10th, 2025 Bato Rouge, Louisiana TRUMP, “OLD HICKORY” AND LOUISIANA! If you ever have a chance to walk into President Trump’s new oval office, the first thing you will see is a portrait of former President Andrew Jackson. A different painting of Jackson hung in the same location during the four years of...Read More

Are you really excited like me? Many of us got that way when we heard the big news. I mean really big. Our old favorite, duck dynasty, is going to be back on television again. Happy day!  If you have never watched Duck Dynasty a few years ago, it was big hit until the leader...Read More

Monday, February 3rd, 2025 Baton Rouge, Louisiana THE RETURN OF DUCK DYNASTY! Have you heard the news? This is big. Really big. In just a matter of weeks, Duck Dynasty will return to TV on the A&E network. It doesn’t seem too long ago that America was consumed with the saga of head Duck Phil...Read More

Monday, January 27th, 2025 Baton Rouge, Louisiana  EARNING BIG BUCKS IN STATE GOVERNMENT! How do you put a dollar value on the worth of a public official? Attorneys working full time for the state are often paid more than $400,000 a year. So how do you justify such large increases? The governor has a whole slew...Read More

Salaries of public officials often are quite high. But are we getting results and should we adjust the salaries? Some high and some low? You may have heard of the Misery Index, that pays such salaries based on  performance. Should we instituted such a concept in  Louisiana other states? I write about this concept in...Read More

Monday, January 27th, 2025 Baton Rouge, Louisiana EARNING BIG BUCKS IN STATE GOVERNMENT! How do you put a dollar value on the worth of a public official? Attorneys working full time for the state are often paid more than $400,000 a year. So how do you justify such large increases? The governor has a whole slew...Read More

It’s unheard of for us here in the deepest to the deep southern stage to ever get any snow. I remember such maybe 10 years ago, barely covering the ground. I don’t know if it’s global warming or what the cause, but this  week  it snowed and snowed and snowed. 10 inches in New Orleans....Read More

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It’s going to be cold over the next few days. I mean really, really cold. So how does one pass the time? A good suggestion is to curl up with a good book. I know something about good books being a publisher. And I write about the special joy of reading in my new column...Read More

Monday, January 20th, 2025 Baton Rouge, Louisiana   READING IN UNCERTAIN TIMES!   Our new President has just taken Office, and one of his priorities is to seek out the possibility of buying Greenland. Its closest neighbor is Iceland,  so maybe Trump can get a twofer, a lagniappe deal for both countries.  And both countries...Read More

Life sure is fleeting. It seemed just a few years ago I was meeting with a number of retired state leaders that have made a major impact on the Bayou State.  In the center of the photo is forward governor Edwin Edwards and former lieutenant governor Jimmie Fitzmorris. You’ll see in the photo Judge Moon...Read More

Monday, January 13th, 2025 Baton Rouge, Louisiana A BAD WEEK FOR AMERICA! A number of current and former public officials took it on the chin this past week. Much of the criticism was justified, but there was overkill in several of the high profile cases. We witnessed continuing political ineptness from coast to coast, as...Read More

What a week it was when it came to incompetence of numerous public facials. And it did not happen just locally. There were questionable decisions that took place in cities from coast to coast. First New Orleans, then on to California for the wildfires, and then range things happening in New York courtrooms. Not a...Read More

It’s wonderful to look back on special people in your family. My Father was my special hero that I looked up to all my life. This week, if he were still living, he would reap the right the right old age of 110. And he certainly lived a full and active life. I just thought...Read More

Monday, January 6th, 2025 Baton Rouge, Louisiana  REMEMBERING MY DEAR OLD DAD!  In this week’s column, can I divert from my usual agenda of politics and current events?  If he were still living, my Father would have reached the rip age of 110 this week. In his work The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud describes the death...Read More

Time to try to live up to my New Year’s resolutions. Mine are simple and the same as millions of others. I want to get my health program in better shape. I want to get in better shape. I’m laying up new menus to eat, getting regular check ups, and of course, working out. I’m...Read More

Is President Donald Trump throwing out another one of his wacko ideas? He just wants to go out by the nation of Greenland hey, why not go by Canada and Mexico to while he’s at it. Actually, buying Greenland is not that bad an idea. The mostly barren country could be a strong barrier for...Read More

Monday, December 30th, 2024 Baton Rouge, Louisiana A DUMB IDEA TO BUY GREENLAND? President Trump stirred up a hornet’s nest recently as he proposed that the U.S. try to buy Greenland. Many political observers rolled their eyes. Buy another country? Has the Prez thrown out another wacky suggestion and is this really a good idea?...Read More

It’s the holiday season and time for reflection as we move towards a new year. Many changes in politics, what’s happening throughout the world, and for many of us personally. I look at the holiday season beginning in Thanksgiving and going through the new year. That’s the focus of this week’s column. You can read...Read More

We at The Lisburn Press so pleased that Jim Brown’s new book,” Jesus, Jews, Jihad and Me”, is doing quite well over the Christmas season.  You can still order your copy by going to www.thelisburnpress.com, or by going to Amazon.Read More

Monday, December 23rd, 2024 Baton Rouge, Louisiana THE HOLIDAYS OFFER US A SECOND CHANCE! Most of us have been swept up in the momentum of the holiday season. We have passed Thanksgiving, reached the Christmas milestone and are approaching New Year’s Day, the third in the trilogy of holidays. Sure, there is a lot of our...Read More

A vigilante shooter brings the outrageous cost of healthcare to the front burner. Ironic that it took a tragedy like this to make Americans realize how bad our healthcare problems are. Insurance companies seem to want to deny, deny, deny. Just how bad is the problem?? I write about this complicated crisis in my new...Read More

Monday, December 16th, 2024 Baton Rouge, Louisiana HEALTHCARE IN LOUISIANA AND THE U.S. A REAL MESS! A vigilante killing takes place in New York City, and the shooter is called by some as a hero. The story of this murder has been covered nationally and internationally for over a week. Unfortunately, this tragedy has evolved...Read More

  It looks like President Donald Trump has a new hero and special person that he admires. He regularly sends praise towards the famous outlaw, Jesse James. And you will be surprised  that I have a relationshipship through relatives with the notorious gunslinger’s past. My grandmother, Sweetie Pearl, Brown, visited with Jesse James on several...Read More

  December 9th, 2024 Baton Rouge, Louisiana DONALD TRUMP, JESSE JAMES, AND REDNECK LOUISIANA! The tough guy outlaw image.  That’s what President Trump has often portrayed himself. He said on a number of occasions that he has been investigated “more than Jesse James,” and call the famous outlaw “a great bank robber.”  There is no...Read More

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It’s hard to believe that it’s been 33 years ago when we witnessed the political race from Hell. Edwin edwards versus David Duke. It was an election that captivated not only America, but to concerned people in countries all over the world. The head of the Ku Klux Klan versus the controversial four term governor....Read More

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Monday, December 2nd, 2024 Baton Rouge, Louisiana  EDWARDS AND DUKE – THE RACE FROM HELL! It was 33 years ago this past week that perhaps the most consequential and controversial election in the nation’s history took place here in the Bayou State. Edwin Edwards and David Duke squared off in a run-off election for Governor....Read More

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I wrote a column recently about Robert F Kennedy, and doing things that are a bit weird. I still think I was right on with that opinion. But President Trump has selected Kennedy to be the new head of the Department of Health and Human Services. And in looking over his proposals, Kennedy suggest some...Read More

Monday, November 25th, 2024 Baton Rouge, Louisiana KENNEDY’S CONTROVERSIAL VIEWS ON OUR HEALTH! The person who heads up the federal Department of Health and Human Services is quite essential to Louisiana.  Louisiana citizens, bless their souls, are in large numbers, poor, unhealthy, and aging at a higher rate than many other states. There is a...Read More

It’s all Trump, and millions of Americans are cheering him on. But has Trump changed America or has America experienced changes that Trump bought into? That’s my big question in this week’s column. America has changed dramatically. Exactly what role did Donald Trump having these changes? I write about what’s happening throughout America in this...Read More

Monday November 18th, 2024 Baton Rouge, Louisiana IS TRUMP AN ABERRATION OR IS AMERICA CHANGING? Listen.  Put your hand to your ear. Can you here it?  (Silence). That’s the sound of the Trumpites hollering about all the election fraud.  Oh, that’s alright.  You see, the Republicans won. There’s only election fraud when Trump and Republicans loose....Read More

OK, the election is over, so let’s get back to leading our lives. It’s a Life we can live with freedom. And that’s because of all the veterans who served this country to be sure we had these freedoms. November 11th is Veterans Day. It’s a time to reflect and honor those who did serve...Read More

Monday, November 11th, 2021 Baton Rouge, Louisiana WE NEED TO DO MORE TO SERVE OUR COUNTRY! This week marks an important day to remember for all of Americans. Many of us don’t even know the difference between Memorial Day (honoring those who died defending our country) and Veterans Day (honoring all service men and women)....Read More

Monday, November 4th, 2024 Baton Rouge, Louisiana THINKING PAST ELECTION DAY! As you read this, it’s a matter of hours before voting in the presidential election is over. That’s not to say that a final verdict will be determined. As we saw four years ago, if the election is close as every analysis indicates that...Read More

If you are like me, you’ll be glad all the politicking is over and we will determine who the next president of the country will be. Let’s hope it won’t last in making a decision for weeks since the election is so close.  I have some final thoughts to share with you as we move...Read More