Well whether you are a Donald Trump fan or not, you have to admit that he sure has brought the question of illegal immigration to the forefront. Most Republicans and Democrats alike don’t seem to want to touch the issue with a 10-foot pole. Here’s an amusing look at the thousand’s of immigrants who continually...Read More

It’s amazing what just a little kindness can do. It can be infectious, and spread, and I hope we all agree that the world could use a good bit more concern for those around us. ” The only real measure of the stature of a life is it’s positive impact upon others.” Jackie Robinson If...Read More

Just as most Americans remember where they were on 9/11, those of us living on the Gulf Coast remember well the fear and concern that enveloped our region ten years ago this week. A lady named Katrina changed many of our lives. In looking back, many Louisianans felt that maybe New Orleans really was a...Read More

August 27th, 2015 New Orleans, Louisiana  Ten Years Ago Katrina Tried To Wash Us Away! Just as most Americans remember where they were on 9/11, those of us living on the Gulf Coast remember the fear and concern that enveloped our region ten years ago this week. A lady named Katrina changed many of our...Read More

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Daughter Campbell continues her assault on educational mediocrity as her new educational reform organization, The 74, hosted the various republican presidential candidates last week in New Hampshire. Take a look below as to how she handled her continuing reform efforts.Read More

We are rapidly approaching the 10th year anniversary of Katrina. If you are not from the Gulf South, you world find it hard to imagine the terrible toll this storm had on so many of us down here. Over 1000 killed, mainly in the New Orleans area. But New Orleans has a special ability to...Read More

Thursday, August 20th, 2015 Baton Rouge, Louisiana GET HEALTHY-DRINK MORE COKE? There’s always been a disconnect between the accolades LSU gives itself for academic achievement and the bottom line results that come from national rankings. Louisiana’s flagship rarely cracks the top 100 universities in the U.S., with a majority of SEC schools outperforming LSU year...Read More

We continually hear of new evidence proving that diet is the key to health and weight loss. Health Think Tanks regularly report that sugar is particularly a dangerous ingredient in much of what we eat and drink. Sure, exercise helps, but what you eat and drink is key for wellness. So when a respected research...Read More

Radio Program show time is quickly at hand, and we have a loaded program scheduled for our listeners. Donald Trump, illegal immigration, high crime rates, are all on the table. Then we will talk about the pros and cons of using credit scores to set your automobile insurance rates with insurance expert Ken Davidson. Check...Read More

I’m an avid biker, but bad knees and getting a little older limits my riding to fairly flat surfaces.  But in my younger years, I enjoyed dirt  biking and charging up and down hills.  I’m really envious of the fellow in the video below.  What a way to bike, and what a view.Read More

Thursday, August 13th, 2015 Baton Rouge, Louisiana LEGISLATURE STICKS IT TO INSURANCE POLICYHOLDERS!  If there was one area of financial help that could have and should have been addressed by the Louisiana legislature in its recent session, it was insurance reform. After all, a Dallas-based research firm completed a new study last month that concluded...Read More

Louisiana continues to have the highest insurance rates in the nation with any policyholders unable to pay the high cost. Certainly the legislature in the Bayou State should be giving some possible solutions a close look-right? Well, maybe not. In fact, in their way too often cavalier manner, this astute body of lawmakers raised the...Read More

Radio Weekend is close at hand, and we have prepared a lively show for our listeners. We will give a presidential primary update, and fill you in with our take on the latest national news. And do you travel much? If you do, you have to be concerned about the TSA. Every day, passengers file...Read More

Thursday, August 6th, 2015 New Orleans, Louisiana SANCTUARY CITIES FLOUT IMMIGRATION LAWS! Can the City of New Orleans pick and choose which federal laws it will acknowledge and enforce? Most of us understand that if you violate a federal law, then there are consequences. You most likely will be prosecuted and punished. Federal laws on...Read More

Why are there “Sanctuary Cities,” where illegal immigrants are immune from arrest for breaking the law, or cannot even be questioned when crimes are committed?  Some cities are opening up their arms to illegal immigrants, as crime rates rise, and (would you believe) the cost of auto insurance is tied to their being allowed to...Read More

I’ll take our weekend radio program to Portland, Oregon this weekend, so we are looking forward to a more cool weather from the Pacific Ocean. We begin the show with guest David Sehat and his new book, THE JEFFERSON RULE: How the Founding Fathers Became Infallible and Our Politics Inflexible, shows how both the Left...Read More

I really like to  see  good magic tricks.  I’ve sen David Copperfield several ties, along with a bevy of other really good magicians.  Here i really an exceptional fellow.Not only can illusionist Darcy make doves appear out of nowhere, he also has an even bigger trick up his sleeve.  Take a look.Read More

Here’s quite an inspirational story to share with you. A good story and good outcome. An English conservationist named Damian Aspinall was able to transfer captive gorillas back to wild of course with the help of the whole Aspinall Foundation.  Damian Aspinall took care of a gorilla he named ‘Kwibi‘ for 5 years and then...Read More

Thursday, July 28th, 2015 Baton Rouge, Louisiana DOMESTIC TERRORISM IN LAFAYETTE! My home phone rang around 9:00 pm. It was my wife Gladys who was in New York with grandkids. “Turn on CNN. They are reporting a mass shooting at the Grand movie theater in Lafayette. Apparently, several people were killed.” The Lafayette theater is...Read More

Was the terrible shooting in a Lafayette, Louisiana movie theatre an isolated incident, or are we seeing an increase in what has to be considered domestic terrorism? I was there at the Grand Theater just a few hours after the killings. There are some troubling issues over how a deranged mental case even was able...Read More

Much more on domestic terrorism as our weekend radio program shapes up. The Lafayette, Louisiana shooter hit right in my backyard, and I have more to tell than perhaps you have read in the national media. The first presidential debate takes place this eek. Will it all be about Donald Trump? Who has the best...Read More

I’ve always been a Coach Lou Holtz football fan.  Particularly when he coached up at Notre Dame.  Not only was he an outstanding football coach, he also was a real  inspiration to all those around him.  Last year, he was the commencement speaker at a small Catholic college, Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio.  He was...Read More

Daughter Campbell  continues her drive to change the face of public education all over America.  Google News interviewed her this week, and should commented specifically about the controversy over Common Core.  She says the  nationwide Common Core debate is merely a blip on the screen of reform.  To read the entire interview, Click Here.Read More

Friday, July 23rd, 2015 Baton Rouge, Louisiana TRUMP DISPARAGES LOUISIANA HEROES! There is no politically correct way to explain it. Donald Trump blew his chance in a big way. He seemed to be on a roll, rising in the presidential preference polls and talking about issues other Republican candidates were ducking. Here in Louisiana, he...Read More

How can I say this delicately about Donald Trump? I’ll be diplomatic and gentle. He’s a blowhard, a draft dodger, a conceded ass, and a big mouth that should be and will be taken down. I wrote a fairly favorable column about his presidential aspirations a few weeks back. I liked how he put the...Read More

We will begin with the tragedy in Lafayette, Louisiana, my part of the country. The tragic shooting in a movie theatre will be discussed with security expert Catherine Smit-Torrez. Her website is www.stilettospyinvestigations.com. And the Iran nuclear deal-good or bad? We will talk with retired Colonel Robert Sholly about the pros and cons. He is...Read More

With Donald Trump disparaging our military heroes, here is some good entertainment and a fine ending recognizing those who serve to keep us free. A short video, but well worth watching. Take a look below.Read More

There are way too many thugs robbing businesses and rampaging our communities. Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. (my old neck of the woods) was such a thug. Take a look below at this storekeeper who said, not just no, but Hell No, to a thug who held her up. She stood up to lawbreakers and...Read More

After taking 10 years off, country mega star Garth Brooks is back and big as ever. He wowed a jam-packed crowd in New Orleans last week singing most of his 27 number one hits, with more energy that anyone could have imagined. But what was it like when he first began singing as a career?...Read More

Thursday, July 16th, 2015 New Orleans, Louisiana GARTH BROOKS AND ME IN LOUISIANA! If you come from Louisiana, it’s almost a congenital requirement that you are born with a love for music. Particularly string music, from country, zydeco, blues, rock and even an abundance of classical aficionados. I’m certainly in that number. Two of my...Read More

Radio weekend is close at hand, and will anticipate a jam-packed program. Iran nuclear restrictions, the continuing Donald Trump saga, Confederate war monuments, new baseball intrigue, all will keep us talking. And are serious problems with Darwinist theory — as author STEPHEN MEYER tries to make clear in his New York Times best-selling book Darwin’s...Read More

The Miss USA pageant here in my hometown of Baton Rouge went off without a hitch last weekend, in spite of all the Donald Trump controversy. The city put on a first rate performance, and although the TV ratings were down, millions of folks across the nation still say the Capitol City in a good...Read More

Daughter Campbell kicks off this week The Seventy Four, an online education newsroom she co-founded, that seeks to drive a much-needed conversation about reforming America’s education system.Coinciding with the launch, The Seventy Four announced that it will host a series of live forums in New Hampshire and Iowa moderated by Campbell and others. They will...Read More

Ole’ Donald Trump sure knows how to stir up a hornet’s nest. His incinerary comments on illegal immigrants have caused NBC and multiple sponsors to pull out of the Miss USA pageant, partly owned by Trump, this weekend in Baton Rouge. Other Republican presidential candidates have lashed out at Trump calling his comments divisive, inaccurate...Read More

Thursday, July 9th, 2015 Baton Rouge, Louisiana MISS USA TRUMPED BY IMMIGRANT DEBATE!  Donald Trump sure has things stirred up right now down here in the Bayou State. International television attention was supposed to highlight Baton Rouge and the whole state of Louisiana. But coverage of the Miss USA pageant has turned more on “The...Read More

Our weekend radio show is shaping up as a full packed sow of ideas and current news. Is Donald Trump for real? Will he show up for the Miss USA contest Sunday night in my hometown of Baton Rouge? (  Why so many shark attacks? We will talk with shark expert Veronica Grey about what’s...Read More

There is a great deal of controversy over the Miss USA pageant scheduled this week in my hometown of Baton Rouge. But we also have a beautiful young lady from New Orleans who represents the state at the Miss America pageant as Miss Louisiana, April Nelson. I ran into her at Jackson Square in the...Read More

Last week was our special holiday to commemorate the founding of our country, and I was remiss in not putting op a special video to remember those who have served us to defend our country today. I’m not familiar with Food City, but kudos to this company for producing this exception TV spot so we...Read More

Thursday, July 2nd, 2015 Baton Rouge, Louisiana RE-WRITING LOUISIANA’S HISTORY FLAGS, MONUMENTS AND ALL! It looks like it’s time to get out the soap powder in Louisiana. Some elected officials and the state’s largest newspaper are jumping all over themselves to call for the banishment of whatever tattered remnants are left from the aftermath of...Read More

Well, the battle lines have been drawn and the South is (again) under assault. Not just the Confederate flag, but also a whole host of what some consider “politically incorrect” symbols that have been a way of live in many parts of the country for years. What do we do about Confederate monuments, names, Dukes...Read More

We have a full packed 4th of July weekend program scheduled, so wherever you are, we hope you can carve out some time to listen. Will we update on the Confederate flag, Donald Trump, and much more of the ridiculous  news flooding the airwaves. Then, our first guest is James Robenalt, author of “January 1973: Watergate, Roe v....Read More

I often wish  President john F. Kennedy were still around.  We cold use some calm and thoughtful rhetoric in our country today, not the insidious bomb throwing we see almost daily from both political parties.  Look at his sensible words:Read More

June 25rd, 2015 Baton Rouge, Louisiana LOUISIANA TO THE TREASUREY DEPARTMENT- LEAVE OLD HICKORY ALONE!  There is a major push by the bureaucrats in Washington to put the first woman on the face of paper currency. There are a number of choices, and you will get no argument form me that there certainly is a...Read More

There is a major push to put a woman on the face of paper money. Good idea, but some current face will have to be removed. I make the argument in this week’s column that President Andrew Jackson should stay on the twenty-dollar bill. If you happen to live in Louisiana, then there is even...Read More

Another fully packed radio program set for this weekend. Most listeners across the country hear the “Common Sense” program from 9:00 am until 11:00 am on Sundays central time. But many stations delay and repeat the program, so check local listings for times and stations.  Our full  radio schedule will be posted Thursday afternoon.Read More

Here is one of the lead stories in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal. “Campbell Brown to Launch Non-Profit Education News Site That Won’t Shy From Advocacy” Daughter Campbell has kicked off a major new publication on educational reform.  To read the whole article about here efforts, Click Here.  and to read the detailed press release of...Read More

Here’s a presentation that, if it doesn’t move you to tears, nothing will.  It’s all about Mothers, and how we don’t appreciate all they do for us.  Take a look.Read More

Thursday, June 18th, 2015 Baton Rouge, Louisiana MEDICAL MARIJUANA OPENS UP CAN OF WORMS IN LOUISIANA! Who would have thought that the most notable legislation in the recently completed session of the Louisiana legislature was increasing taxes by over one billion dollars, and legalizing marijuana use for certain purposes. Some observers around the state capitol...Read More

Raising taxes and legalizing marijuana. Who would have thought this would be what folks remembered from the recently completed legislative session in Louisiana. Actually, the legalization is for medical marijuana. But the easy part was passing the law. Now the real problem solving begins. Take a look at my new column for this week where...Read More

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June 12th, 2015 Baton Rouge, Louisiana ALL LIVES SHOULD MATTER!  The rallying cry by protesters that has gained momentum after Ferguson and Baltimore is that “Black Lives Matter.” Within the context of all society, that’s a truism. But like so many other older citizens, I volunteered to join the military (something few protesters or politicians...Read More

For months following Ferguson, Long Island, Cleveland and South Carolina, we have heard the rallying cry “Black Lives Matter.” And they do. But are we being so parochial that we forget all lives should matter? Racial tensions have polarized races in many parts of America today. In my new column, I take a look at...Read More

We have a great “Common Sense” radio program set for this weekend, and we hope you will have a chance to catch the show. We will begin by discussing a disturbing new study that raises questions of statin use to lower cholesterol and memory loss.  Dr. Pamela Smith is the author of the book “What...Read More

I have flown primarily Delta Airlines for most of my life. It’s the major carrier in my part of the country, and was founded in Monroe, Louisiana, close to my hometown of Ferriday. So I’ve always been a bit partial to Delta. They do a great job in honoring those who gave their lives for...Read More

June 4th, 2015 Baton Rouge, Louisiana WALKER PERCY’S IMPACT ON LOUISIANA!  Many readers who love Louisiana literature will gather this weekend in St. Francisville to celebrate the live and works of novelist Walker Percy. He was, to me, a literary icon who spent most of his life in Louisiana. Many consider him to be America’s...Read More

A special weekend coming up celebrating the life and literature of Walker Percy. Louisiana has never produced a better novelist, and many feel he was America’s most significant Catholic writer. He really cared for his home state, and I wrote this week about my relationship with the giant literary figure. Take a look at my...Read More

Radio weekend is right at hand and we are all ready to broadcast from Jackson Square in the French Quarter-in the heart of downtown New Orleans. After a review of the week’s news, we will be joined by Dr. Gerald Gianoli, a Neuro-otology and Skull Based Surgeon, who says we are all paying way too...Read More

May 28th, 2015 Baton Rouge, Louisiana  SAME OLD, SAME OLD IN LOUISIANA GOVERNOR’S RACE!  Fifty years ago this month, rock band The Who released their megahit rock opera called “Won’t Get Fooled Again.” The song ended with the lyrics: “Meet the new boss, Same as the old boss.” From the early debates in the approaching...Read More