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, at, can you believe, the sexy nun.Read More

Thursday, November 16th, 2017 Baton Rouge, Louisiana EDWARDS AND DUKE – THE RACE FROM HELL! Twenty-six years ago this week, 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. Not only were voters...Read More

It was called the Race from Hell, and was probably the most observed gubernatorial election in the history of United States. 26 years ago this week, former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards and David Duke squared off in a runoff election to determine who would be the next governor. Duke was head of the Ku Klux...Read More

Radio weekend is close at hand what’s up full agenda topic in gash windup. We will talk with Harlan Ullman about his new book, “Anatomy of Failure”“ Why America loses Every War It Starts.”Â  Then Chef Dominic Condo will discuss the many ways Italians incorporate their traditions and culture into holiday dishes. And will judge Roy Morris stay in...Read More

I’ve been to this cathedral before on a visit to Florance.  A worker in Florence, Italy, climbs atop Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral’s Brunelleschi Dome to perform maintenance works and regular checks this week.  In the background is the famous Giotto’s Campanile, or bell tower.  Quite a site.  How would you like to be up there with this...Read More

Why don’t more people go vote? There have been a series of elections all over the country, yet turnout has been abominable. There’s an election in a few days down here in Louisiana, and projections are that only 10% of registered voters will bother to show up at the polls. Does that say something about...Read More

Thursday, November 9, 2017 Baton Rouge, Louisiana IS ANYONE INTERESTED IN VOTING IN LOUISIANA? Remember the 1970 song by Chicago: “Does anybody know what time it is, does anybody really care?” Well it’s close to Election Day in Louisiana, and it would seem by early voting and general lack of interest that Louisianans are not...Read More

The Common Sense Radio Show we’ll be on the air soon, and we’ve a lively program scheduled for this weekend. First up is America’s moneyman, Jordan Goodman, who will explain the new proposed trump tax plan. Check out Jordan’s website at www.moneyanswers.com. And are you ready for Thanksgiving travel? The guy in know, travel expert...Read More

For those of you who  check out my website regularly, you know that I  enjoy discussing good health and ways I try to stay in shape.Watch out for some of us old guys. We can be pretty tough with our workouts in the gym. Eat your heart out  all you young guys in our family....Read More

Thursday, November 2nd, 2017 Baton Rouge, Louisiana             MANDATORY GUN INSURANCE COMING TO LOUISIANA? So have you purchased your gun insurance yet? In case you shoot someone, there are insurance policies available to cover any liabilities you might face, pay for your bail if you are accused of a crime, cover your attorney fees, and...Read More

There’s a new debate starting across the country. Should be mandatory for gun owners to carry insurance? Many think so, and five states are considering legislation to require gun insurance right now. They argue it is mandatory in all states to have car insurance. Why not get gun insurance? I look at issue from the...Read More

Wow, what a week for news. The indictments of Trump allies, terrorist attack in New York City, it seems like major stories break daily. We will cover all this on our weekend radio show. Matt Taibbi will join us to discuss his new book I Can’t Breathe, about the Eric Gardner story in on Staten...Read More

Do you celebrate the Day of the Dead?  I do. Day of the Dead, or Dia de los Muertos, is the Mexican holiday when people celebrate and honor loved ones who have passed away. Celebrations typically run from Halloween, October 31, to All Saints Day, November 2. Non-Mexicans may recognize the sugar skull aesthetic from their friends’...Read More

I’ve always wanted to paint and draw.  But I never seemed to find the time,And I knew I really wasn’t that talented anyway. But a recent trip to San Miguel, Mexico gave me the opportunity. San Miguel is a wonderful small Mexican town full of budding artists. So I gave it a shot. A local...Read More

Thursday, October 26th, 2017 Baton Rouge, Louisiana JUST WHAT IS AMERICA’S FAVORITE PASTIME? Look out sports fans! Maybe, just maybe, baseball is making a big comeback. Now I know we are in the middle of football season. Down my way in the Bayou State, both the Saints and the LSU Tigers are on a roll....Read More

Are you ready for the World Series? Baseball has really taken off, with the largest viewership for the playoffs in many years. When it comes to professional football, lots of empty seats in the stands. And politics has never been hotter in this country. So what is America’s favorite pastime? Football, baseball, or politics. Check...Read More

I’ll be out of the country this weekend.  Tough family wedding duty in San Miguel, Mexico, one of the premier tourism destination spots in the world. So you’re stuck with Leo Honeycutt and Rannah Gray this week.  I say”stuck” and just kidding, because they did a great show last week, and you can look forward...Read More

The annual Louisiana Book Festival has grown in to one of the top readers and writers gatherings in the country. It will be held this weekend, October 28th, at the Louisiana State Capitol of Baton Rouge. Our publishing Company, The Lisburn Press, always has a presence at the book festival. Several of our authors will...Read More

Check out the cover of this week’s New Yorker magazine. The world of automation is on us. A friend of mine here in Louisiana just ordered a driverless car. He says it can do anything, go pick up your kids from school, or anything else you want to program into the system. Government regulations require...Read More

So it seems like the state of Louisiana threw this election party, and nobody showed up. The voter turnout in the recent statewide election was the lowest in memory. Nobody really seemed to care. The New Orleans Times Picayune blames it all on the voters, saying they should be ashamed of their abysmal apathy. But...Read More

Thursday, October 19th, 2017 Baton Rouge, Louisiana WAY TOO MANY ELECTIONS IN LOUISIANA! It’s like they threw a party but nobody came. That’s how election officials must have felt when they counted the ballots for last week’s statewide election. The turnout was a paltry 13.5%. Now remember that some 50% of adults over eighteen who...Read More

So much in the news to talk about on this weekend’s radio program. An update on” taking a knee” by NFL football players. And what’s all this stuff about Bit Coins? Los Angeles attorney JR Landis will explain the rapid development of crypto currency and how it works. Is this the future of how we...Read More

Sally Quinn, noted journalist and news anchor, as well as the widow of Washington Post editor Ben Bradley, was a guest on my nationally syndicated radio program this last weekend. She has a fascinating book out called “Finding Magic-A Spiritual Memoir.” I stayed up late one evening reading it, and would highly recommend the book,...Read More

We live our daily lives, and are glad when the bad guys are arrested and put in jail. But sometimes, prosecutors mess up. By and large, we have good prosecutors at both the state and federal level. But there are bad eggs in every batch. A fellow named John Thompson quietly died last week. And...Read More

Thursday, October 12th, 2017 Baton Rouge, Louisiana  THE BETRAYAL ON JUSTICE IN LOUISIANA!  A Louisiana guy named John Thompson died last week. You may not recognize the name, but he was the victim of one of the worst cases of prosecutorial misconduct in the state’s history. Here are the facts. Thompson was convicted back in...Read More

We are all set for a fast-paced and lively radio program this weekend. So much to talk about. Wild fires in California, the end of healthcare subsidies, and why do people become mass murders? Also, the sports princess, Kate Delaney joins us to talk about taking a knee on the football field. And finally, media...Read More

I’ve been a big Tom Petty musical fan for many years. He is one of America’s great songwriters, and, sadly, he died last week at the young age of 66. My favorite Petty rendition is his song “I Won’t Back Down.” The song is quite personal to me, because I relate it to my run...Read More

Have you weighed in on the “taking a knee” controversy as the Star Spangled Banner is being played at sporting events across the country? Does it really make any real difference if some use our national anthem to protest? Or is this the time and place? I must admit I have some pretty strong views...Read More

Hey, do we have a great radio show plan for this weekend. Our regular broadcasting time it’s Sunday morning, from 9 AM a.m. till 11 AM schedule time. Various stations round the country may rerun, or have different times, so check local listings for times and stations. Of course we’ll talk about the Las Vegas...Read More

Thursday, October 6th, 2017 Baton Rouge, Louisiana TOO BUSY FOR NATIONAL ANTHEM! I’ve always looked on honoring the flag and standing for the national anthem as a basic premise that connotes a commitment to protect our freedoms guaranteed to us under our constitution. It’s also a symbol of reverence for our soldiers who protect us...Read More

Thursday, September 28th, 2017 Baton Rouge, Louisiana TELL OUR YANKEE FRIENDS TO BUTT OUT! Our friends up north need to let it go.  According to a cross section of northern commentators, the Second Reconstruction may be over, but they think a third one may be necessary. Consider the Washington Post’s take in an Op Ed by their...Read More

Some folks up north just can’t seem to stop taking pot shots and the supposedly “backward” South. A few Yankee pundits are even calling for a wall. No, not to keep out Mexicans, but to block off southerners. When will these reprobates just let it go? I write about the north-south tensions in my new...Read More

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  Familiar Evil is the title of one of the most gripping true crime stories published in recent years.  I t has won numerous awards. Check lout more about this book by Clicking Here.  Read More

Will the recent storms, the did so much damage in Texas and Florida, cause their insurance rates to go up? What makes the cost of insurance go up in the first place? Shouldn’t these companies be sticking back the money they’re taking in for a rainy day to pay out all the claims? And why...Read More

Thursday, September 21st, 2017 Baton Rouge, Louisiana LOUISIANA AND FLORIDA: NIGHT AND DAY ON PROPERTY INSURANCE! With major hurricanes recently hitting Florida and Texas, and since some parts of Louisiana are still cleaning up after last year’s torrential rains, many property owners in the Bayou State are asking if insurance rates will go up. Will...Read More

Americans are extremely protective of their rights. We don’t want government interfering in anything we do. But how about the right to determine just when you shutdown your life? That does when government steps in, and says you have no choice. Is this right? Should you have a choice? Take a look at my column...Read More

Weekend radio we shaping up well, and we hope you’ll join us for lively show. We will talk to former United States Sen. John Breaux about the lack of cooperation in Washington. We will also talk with Seth Siegel, an expert on water throughout the world. And Jeff Dorson joins us to talk about dealing...Read More

Thursday, September 14th, 2017 Baton Rouge, Louisiana SHOULD YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO DIE? We pride ourselves as Americans in our lifestyle choices. The right to freedom of choice, protecting our individual assertion of free will, and deciding just how we want to live our lives. And yes, we have the right to excess. You...Read More

What a month for disasters. Hurricane Harvey caused great devastation in the Houston area as well as parts of Louisiana. And hurricane Irma destruction will take years to repair and recover. And it’s just not hurricanes. There’s a wave of natural disasters in the United States. Wildfires out west, tornadoes in the Panhandle, and flooding...Read More

September 7th, 2017 Baton Rouge, Louisiana WHAT TO DO ABOUT RISING FLOOD INSURANCE RATES? Hurricane Harvey has caused property owners along the Gulf and East Coasts to panic over projections of outrageous property flood insurance rates that, in some cases, could lead to increases of greater than 1000 percent. Is there really a problem finding...Read More

Wow, what a Radio weekend coming up! We will be following all the natural disasters. Free hurricanes in the gulf, and wildfires raging out west. And how about the immigration fight going on in Washington? What to do with all the children of the illegal immigrants that came in to this country. We will have...Read More

Here is an outrageous example of a police officer going completely out of the bounds of his authority. Alex Wubbels, a nurse at University Hospital in Salt Lake City, was arrested after explaining to police that she couldn’t draw a blood sample from an unconscious person. A Salt Lake City police detective asked for a...Read More

Thursday, August 31st, 2017 Baton Rouge, Louisiana HERE COMES THE CAJUN NAVY! The Cajun Navy wasted no time. Hurricane Harvey slammed into the Texas Coast on a Friday. By Sunday, hundreds of boats were on their way to Texas. I passed a supermarket parking lot two days after the storm hit, and a large contingent...Read More

Houston remains under siege and the rescue operations will go on for weeks. Isn’t it ironic that almost 12 years ago to the day, Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana and the entire the Gulf Coast. In both storms, one of the saving graces was the Cajun Navy. Large contingents of Louisianans are in Texas right now...Read More

Why wasn’t our country called Columbia, after Christopher Columbus? He discovered the Americas, right? Columbus might well have had the new world named after him, had it not been for two shortcomings. The first was that Columbus was under the mistaken impression that he had found a new route to Asia and was not aware...Read More

Are college football players considered little more than mascots? This seems to be the conclusion of a recent column in the New York Times where the college game his supposedly there to amuse the fans, with no respect for the players. And black football players particularly take it on the chin by the Times article,...Read More

Thursday, August 24th, 2017 Baton Rouge, Louisiana  LSU FOOTBALL AND RACE RELATIONS! Ah, the wisdom found in the New York Times. America’s newspaper (at least according to them) seems to find a reason every week to denigrate the backwards homefolks that populate Louisiana. Certainly some debasement is justified particularly when it comes to disparaging the...Read More

I don’t know about you, but I’m a big fight fan. And this Saturday night, August 26, is a big fight night out in Las Vegas. Former pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather will come out of retirement to face UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor in a boxing match to determine the super welterweight champion of the...Read More

It’s show time this weekend, and we will be on a major hurricane watch throughout entire Gulf South. What’s Harvey going to do? Severe weather expert Michael Smith will join us to discuss. (www.accuweather.com). And how about gas prices? Huge refineries in the hurricane’s path. Energy expert Wolf Hanschen will be our guest (http://www.peregrine1031.com). And...Read More

Well, the solar eclipses over, but that doesn’t mean there are not other eclipses working across the country. Look below it what are common my opinion, continuing eclipse activity, both in politics, and of course the coming on slot of football season. I say we give politics rest for a while.Read More

The tragedy in Charlottesville Virginia last week raises the profile of hate groups likes the Ku Klux Klan. Louisiana had been a hot bed of Klan activity back in the 50s and 60s, and many Americans are well aware that one of the top national Klansman, David Duke, came from Louisiana. He was so popular...Read More

It would be an understatement to say that we have a really big show lined up for this weekend. Is the Charlottesville tragedy the beginnings of many more such confrontations? Author Leslie Sorrell joins us to discuss. She’s written a new book: “From Clients to Crooks”“ An Insider reveals the real Washington DC.” (www.clientstocrooks.com.)  We...Read More

August 17th, 2017 Baton Rouge, Louisiana THE KU KLUX KLAN IN LOUISIANA! Focus is back on the Ku Klux Klan following the tragic violence in Charlottesville last week. The Southern Poverty Law Center released data alleging that the Klan is still active in Louisiana, particularly in the central and northwest part of the state.The Klan...Read More

Check out daughter Campbell talking about straight political talk on The Jon Stewart program.  Yes, she has stirred up a lot of controversy, but for good reasons as she explains. Take a look.Read More

Wasn’t it Shakespeare who said, “The first thing you do is to kill all the lawyers?”Â  In this day and age, attorneys get blamed for just about any problem or wrong. That’s sure the case here in Louisiana when it comes to the highest automobile insurance rates in the nation. The politicians and insurance regulators...Read More

August 10th, 2017 Baton Rouge, Louisiana WHO’S AT FAULT FOR HIGH AUTO INSURANCE RATES? Year after year, Louisiana sits at the top of the list for the most expensive state in the nation for auto insurance. Insure.com just released a new study showing the Bayou State in a neck and neck race with Michigan to...Read More