We are ready for the radio weekend, with the top lineup of topics and guests.  This whole terrible Cleveland kidnapping offense gets murkier and murkier. Public officials and the press are having a day one one-upping each other in printing and sending out salacious new facts or alleged facts.  Psychologist Dr. Bart Rossi will join...Read More

Thursday, May 8th, 2013 Baton Rouge, Louisiana  THE CHALLENGES AND CHARMS OF GETTING OLDER! I woke up earlier this week, followed my normal routine of walking the dogs, picking up the morning papers, pouring my large glass of orange juice half filled with water to dilute the sugar, checked my emails, walked out on the...Read More

Almost every weekend, the Red Dragon Listening Room has a great concert for those of us living in the Baton Rouge area. I’m a regular there, and owner Chris Maxwell just holds me a front row seat. I’m always surprised at the talent that comes through this part of the country. This past Saturday, I...Read More

May 9th, 2013Read More

Automobile Dealer and business magnate Gerry Lane reached the pinnacle of success in the South by building one of the largest automobile dealerships in the country.  He began from humble beginnings in the dustbowl of Oklahoma, and then went to California where he learned how to sell cars. And boy could he sell those vehicles. ...Read More

The Boston bombing caused so much damage, that it is really hard to comprehend. We have seen individual photos in the newspapers. But the attached below is chilling, heartbreaking, gut wrenching, and a horrible, terrible tragedy. Some of these photos are quite graphic, so caution should be used in showing them to young children. But...Read More

May 2nd, 2013Read More

BIG BANKS NEED STRONGER REGULATION  The Big Megabanks took taxpayers to the cleaners in 2008 accepting some $700 billion in federal funds and claiming they were way to big to fail.  But has anything really changed.  Nary a Wall Street Banker was convicted in the bailout fiasco, and many think the same old, same old...Read More

It’s radio weekend time, and we have a full and packed schedule of issues to talk about this weekend.  We will begin with a follow-up on the Boston Bomber killings and review new developments.  According to new sources, the FBI had been watching the killers for months.  So what happened and why the law enforcement...Read More

Thursday, May 2nd, 2013 Baton Rouge, Louisiana BIG BANKS WANT TO STAY TOO BIG TO FAIL! In the movie Wall Street, Michael Douglas’s character Gordon Gecko summed up the attitude of major U.S. banks quite well: “Greed is good.” And this certainly appears to be true, at least for the banks, because after all, the...Read More

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Educators and those interested in educational reform from all over the south converged in Baton Rouge last week for a major educational seminar.  Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was one of the headliners, along with daughter Campbell.  Her comments were hard hitting and she passionately gave her views of what is holding many states...Read More

As many of you who read this site know, I’m a big fan of the Red Dragon Listening Room here in my hometown of Baton Rouge. Musical entrepreneur Chris Maxwell really does a yeoman’s job of bringing in great musical acts with the likes of Rosanne Cash, Guy Clark, Jerry Jeff Walker, Billy Joe Shaver,...Read More

THE BOMBER, MIRANDA AND THE CONSTITUTION!  The Boston Bomber looks about as guilty as you can get, yet some people are calling for him to be fully protected by his constitutional rights.  Constitutionals rights?  Isn’t it an open and shut case? Why does he deserve any protections? In fact, many others think a military court...Read More

Thursday, April 25th, 2013 Baton Rouge, Louisiana  THE BOMBER, MIRANDA AND THE CONSTITUTION! Constitutional rights for the Boston bomber?  Are you kidding?  For days we watched the video footage of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev walking the streets of Boston with a backpack loaded with a homemade bomb.  A growing list of circumstantial evidence points to his guilt. ...Read More

April 25th, 2013Read More

So you are a woman feels it necessary to carry a gun, and in many parts this country, it just makes good common sense. Here’s the question? When do you keep your gun? Do you have to carry a purse wherever you go? Thee are some options’ that may work a lot better. Take a...Read More

Are you a jump roper? I have jump rope to stay in shape most of my life. I’ve slowed down a bit with bad knees, but I still try to use a rope whenever I can in my workouts.  But no matter how long most of us work to do it, we will never come...Read More

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HOW DO WE RESPOND TO MORE TERRORISM?  There are trade-offs when you live in a democracy. By the nature of an open government, the populace certainly will be more vulnerable than in a more restrictive form of government.  But none of us want such restrictions.  So as terrible as it may seem, we have to...Read More

Friday, April 19th, 2013 Baton Rouge, Louisiana  WILL MORE TERRORISM CHANGE THE WAY WE LIVE? At the end of the Marathon on Monday, it was not just Boston that came under attack.  It was an attack on all of us.  American the vulnerable.  That, unfortunately, is part of the price we pay to live in an open,...Read More

What a news week. The terrible tragedy in Boston, the gun control debate in Washington, immigration reform on the front burner, many states are struggling to stay afloat financially, and deep concerns about terrorism all over America. We will cover all these topics on the “Common Sense” program. In this era of continuing constitutional challenges...Read More

Hey folks, you better keep your guard up when you go to McDonald’s. It can really be a rowdy place. I never thought it would get this rowdy. Man, if I see a couple ladies like this going after one another, along with the confrontations of those behind the counter being this defensive and with...Read More

April 12, 2013Read More

Is there something exquisitely special about New Orleans? Of course there is, and wherever you live in the country, you know it. That is, in the private sector.  Jazz, food, artists, writers, and creative young people moving in to the Crescent City in record numbers.  But, unfortunately, the city that care forgot has a criminal...Read More

Thursday, April 12th, 2013 Baton Rouge, Louisiana  NEW ORLEANS THE WORST CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IN AMERICA! Is there something special about New Orleans?  Of course there is. The city that care forgot is unique in so many ways.  I could make a list that would go on for pages about the sui generis way of...Read More

Radio Show schedule and guests to be posted Friday.Read More

I’m a big Mary Gauthier fan.  And it’s not that she is from my hometown of Baton Rouge.  She’s a heck of a song writer, and the Louisiana native-turned-Nashville resident Gauthier (it’s French; pronounced Go-SHAY), whose songs have earned praise from Bob Dylan and Tom Waits, and been recorded by Jimmy Buffett, Blake Shelton and...Read More

My father-in law was quite a guy, and he quietly passed away this past weekend. He was called a Movie theater magnate. T.G. “Teddy” Solomon, who expanded a family theater empire to more than 600 theaters in eight states before introducing the megaplex concept to south Louisiana with his Palace theaters, was 93. “I’ve been...Read More

In America today, you pretty much have the right to live as you choose. Many things are bad for you, but it your choice to decide how much you want to eat, if you want to be a heavy drinker, or do you smoke, smoke, smoke that bond cigarette. Freedom of choice”¦Right! We all want...Read More

Thursday, April 4th, 2013 Pensacola, Florida 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 can...Read More

The gun control debate seems to be narrowed to increasing background checks.  Today, daughter Campbell let loose in the Wall Street Journal and on MSNBCs Moring Joe, to take on the entertainment industry.  She criticizes the President for not strongly speaking out over the violence that permeates movies, TV shows and video games.  You can...Read More

April 4th, 2013Read More

The “Common Sense” radio weekend is fast approaching, and we have a solid lineup of guests and topics to cover. This week’s column talks about your right to die. This is a controversial subject, and assisted suicide is only available in four states in America. What do you think? Should you have that right? We’ll...Read More

So do you believe in Leprechauns?  Well, there’s a group of people in Mobile Alabama who think they have found one. I drive through mobile regularly to visit relatives, and to go to the beach. It’s nice with community. But Leprechauns?  I don’t know what’s worse, that people actually believe in that or that a...Read More

Well the luster is off the South Korean rapper who has the most watched video in youtue history. Psy, the South Korean rapper whose viral pop hit “Gangnam Style” has been viewed more than 900 million times on YouTube, participated in two anti-American performances about a decade ago, a story that finally trickled into English-language...Read More

It’s quite obvious that members of Congress have way too much time on their hands. If there were not a vast number of national critical issues to deal with, several senators have now become obsessed with a major national concern.  Would you believe ““ outlawing horsemeat.  That’s right! Let by Louisiana senator Mary Landrieu along...Read More

Friday, March 29th, 2013 Baton Rouge, Louisiana  MARY LANDRIEU WON’T  LET ME EAT HORSEMEAT! Chaos reigns in the Middle East, North Korea and Iran continue their nuclear threats to global stability, millions of Americans still don’t have affordable healthcare, gun control and immigration divide the nation in legislative fights, and a federal budget which needs...Read More

Radio time close at hand and we are glad to be back at our flagship station, Clear Channel’s WJBO, in Baton Rouge over the Easter weekend.  Next week, we will be broadcasting from Pensacola Florida.  We hope you will be able to tune in, so check the Genesis local listings of a station in your...Read More

March 29th, 2013Read More

I had a tough time picking out a favorite cartoon for this week to post on the left side of this site.  I opted for “liberty and justice for sale,” that sums up just how things get down Washington, D.C.  But below are a few of my additional favorites for this week.    Read More

To put the world in perspective, if you took 100 people, and broke them down in the demographics of the world at large, what would you end up with? This is a fascinating chart that shows you what languages are spoken and where, sand a world breakdown of religion, age, gender and much more. It’s...Read More

Boy, the hammer really came down last week on Louisiana property owners and drivers as new figures showed automobile rates continued to rise, as well as higher property insurance costs. The damage to Louisiana families and businesses is staggering.  Some $2 billion ripped away from the state’s economy because of these outrageous costs that are...Read More

March 22ed, 2013 Baton Rouge, Louisiana  LOUISIANA INSURANCE RATES A MAJOR SCANDAL!  Can you put lipstick on a pig? Well, business leaders are certainly giving it their best shot in an effort to counteract the fact that Louisiana’s outrageously expensive insurance rates make the Bayou State an environment hostile to the attraction of new businesses. ...Read More

The weekend is quickly rolling around, and the “Common Sense” show will be on the air before you know it. We really have a lively show set for this week coming up. Ten years ago, America began the Iraq war to find supposedly weapons of mass distraction. They were nowhere to be found, and thousands...Read More

March 21, 2013Read More

Well, we all know love takes many forms, and we all know the special relationship we all have with our pets. I’ve had many dogs, cats and even owls over the years. What about an animal from the wild though? Can they still love you for all their lives? If you have any doubt, take...Read More

It looks like we are more and more becoming a paperless society.  Email, no more faxes, video art, eBooks, its all on the web, and much better”¦.right?  Well maybe not.  Take a look below.Read More

March 15th, 2013Read More

Although I lean towards libertarian thinking, I’ve never been particularly enamored with Kentucky U. S. Senator Rand Paul, who, like his father, is a staunch libertarian.  Maybe it’s his messy curly hair.  But I certainly don’t consider Paul to be a “wacko nut job” as Senator McCain called him on the floor of the U.S....Read More

Friday, March 15th, 2013 Baton Rouge, Louisiana  A WACKO NUT JOB OVER FREEDOMS? Although I lean towards libertarian thinking, I’ve never been particularly enamored of  Kentucky U. S. Senator Rand Paul, who, like his father, is a staunch libertarian.  Maybe it’s his messy curly hair.  But I certainly don’t consider Paul to be a “wacko...Read More

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Well you are never too old to dance. In fact, to many, dancing is a way of life that really can keep you young. And if you want to see a prime example of this, check out the video below. You know this 88 year old gal really enjoys life, and dancing is all part...Read More

March madness got off a little early this year, as the picking of the new pope put aside basketball, even for the bookies and for those placing bets. A guy named Tom Rauen has created a game that mimics the single-elimination tournaments made famous by college and professional sports in the U.S. He even created...Read More

]ARGUING WITH GOD IN NEW ORLEANS!  Did you watch the much-hyped, The Bible miniseries on the History Channel. There sure was a lot to cover, and there are  only 10 episodes hours.  So it was like watching the Bible’s greatest hits, a series of theme-park tableaus of one disaster after another.  Oh,I’ll watch again this...Read More

The Radio Weekend is upon us, and we here on the “Common Sense Show” are working hard to get ready for a lively show.  We will begin our show by looking at some of the top news events of the week. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder, for example, told a legislative committee in Washington this week...Read More

Thursday, March 7th, 2013 New Orleans, Louisiana  ARGUING WITH GOD IN NEW ORLEANS! Like millions of Americans this past Sunday, I sat down to watch the much-hyped, The Bible miniseries on the History Channel. But you can only cover so much in ten hours,  so viewers ended up watching the Bible’s greatest hits, a series...Read More

How bailout this amazing ending to a NEW ROCHELLE-MT VERNON BOYS BASKETBALL game? “¨While it seems like there’s a new crazy, jaw-dropping buzzer beater made every other day, this one from the championship game in White Plains, N.Y. might top all of them. Talk about a crazy ending. Take a look and see if you...Read More

  Here’s a gut-wrenching story of incompetence by a public official if you ever read one.  A state senator in Colorado scolds rape victim for supporting concealed carry on a college campus.  Do you get this? The brave young college student in the video below was raped, and only wished she had had a gun....Read More

March 8th, 2013Read More

  ALL YOU REALLY NEED IS A SHOTGUN, TWO SHELLS, AND INSURANCE, HUH? The ongoing gun debate had two new elements added to the mix this past week.  Vice President Joe Biden suggested that a shotgun was all any individual needed for self-protection. And several states proposed legislation that would to require gun owner’s insurance...Read More

March 1st, 2013 St. John, The Virgin Islands  ALL YOU REALLY NEED IS A SHOTGUN, TWO SHELLS, AND INSURANCE, HUH?  The ongoing gun debate had two new elements added to the mix this past week.  Vice President Joe Biden suggested that a shotgun was all any individual needed for self-protection. And several states proposed legislation...Read More

March 1st, 2013Read More

It’s radio time as the weekend approaches, and we have a full agenda to talk about in Sunday’s nationally syndicated radio show.  Will the government shutdown with the so-called sequestration? And what does sequestration mean in the first place? What’s happened to the immigration debate? Will any changes really have a chance to be put...Read More

Just when it seems like we only see bad things on the news, a story like the one below comes around and makes us all feel a little bit better. A mentally challenged young high school basketball player gets a chance to actually play. He is overwhelmed, and really feels the attention. You’re not going...Read More

The former president of one of the Louisiana’s largest parishes (counties) is heading to jail.  Aaron Broussard is preparing to head to prison for three years and 10 months for conspiracy to commit bribery and theft from a program receiving federal funds.  “I apologize for disgracing my office,” said Broussard shortly after he learned of his...Read More

BIG BANKS AND THEIR CRIMINAL LEADERS GO SCOTT FREE!  After years of financial chicanery, federal prosecutors have decided that Wall Street manipulators are both too big to fail, and too big to jail. There has been a pattern of the largest banks on Wall Street engaging in the most relentless and irresponsible behavior ““ and...Read More

February 22nd, 2013Read More