Thursday, October 1, 2009 Shreveport, Louisiana GET THE POLITICIANS OUT OF REAPPORTIONMENT It’s getting close to redistricting time for legislators, and already criticism is raining down on this politically sensitive process that decisions are being shaped behind closed doors.  Lawmakers have scheduled a two day “educational workshop” in Alexandria next month to learn...Read More

  In John Camp’s new book, Odyssey of a Derelict Gunslinger he writes a great deal about his relationship with Evangelist Rev. Jimmy Swaggart.  I too know Rev. Swaggart well since he was from my old hometown of Ferriday.  John and I talked about the Swaggart controversy last week, and you can see it in...Read More

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Leno is off to a fast start with his new earlier night show on NBC.  Can I brag a bit?  My kid was on Leno and did OK if I do say so myself.  Take a look at this short clip of Campbell and Jay Leno. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/QHN86vjfi5o" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]Read More

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  When was the last time you heard any politician mention the dreaded term “affordable property insurance” in Louisiana?  The insurance front has been extremely quite.  Maybe too quiet.  Louisiana elected officials hope the subject just goes away.  Quite a contrast to what’s happening in Florida.  Property insurance rates are a front burner issue.  The...Read More

  Thursday, September 24, 2009 Perdido Key, Florida LOUISIANA AND FLORIDA- NIGHT AND DAY ON PROPERTY INSURANCE! All this week, Florida’s largest newspaper, the Miami Herald, has been writing both feature articles and editorials about the problems facing Florida property owners in finding affordable insurance.  Day after day, headlines conveyed the intensity of the struggle: ...Read More

“Odyssey of a Derelict Gunslinger: A Saga of Exposing TV Preachers, Corrupt Politicians, Right-Wing Lunatics…and Me.”Â  Quite a book title.  It’s a new book by Louisiana news reporter John Camp, who now lives in St. Francisville.  He was an investigative reporter for CNN and has followed many Louisiana scandals, including Rev. Jimmy Swaggart and the...Read More

So do you feel sorry for insurance company executives?  The you can join in the weeping by watching this new online ad below that concludes (tongue in cheek) that health insurance  executives are getting a bum rap in the national healthcare debate.  Even if you don’t agree, it’s pretty funny to watch.  Even has Will...Read More

Daughter Campbell gives both the President and Congress hell for something as difficult as “reading proposed legislation.”Â  Is she being to strict on these poor public officials?  Take a look and see what you think. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/UFuhbkvuml4" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]Read More

  Can you believe it?  One politician calling another a liar!  What’s the state of public affairs coming to?  Is South Carolina congressman Joe Wilson an anomaly in his shouting escapade directed at the President last week?  Hardly.  Those who are taken back just need to take a look at many such incidents where one...Read More

  Thursday, September 17, 2009 Perdido Key, Florida IN LOUISIANA, JUST TELL EM’ I LIED! When South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson hollered out “You lie” as the President was addressing congress last week, even Louisiana republicans were aghast.  Northeast Louisiana congressman Rodney Alexander summed up the delegation’s response.  “I was embarrassed,” Alexander said after speaking...Read More

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  I’m over at Perdido Key all this week getting myself in shape for a weekend Triathlon, and enjoying the fact that most of the summer crowds are gone.  The Gulf is still warm for swimming, and the cooler early morning weather makes a jog on the beach much easier.  One thing I have noticed...Read More

  The anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attach on New York passed rather quietly last week.  Remember how Mayor Rudy Giuliani and President Bush both vowed to quickly rebuild the  smoldering hole in the ground that would be bigger and better than before?  Well eight years have gone by and Ground Zero remains just...Read More

Sometimes my musical favorites are a little off beat, but I listen to the songs I like hundreds of time.  Most of my favorites end up on my juke box on the left side of this site, and you ought to take a listen going back a number of years.  I just happened across singer...Read More

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  Both La. Governor Bobby Jindal and President Obama took a lot of heat this past week.  The Prez for wanting to “indoctrinate” our kids with his TV address.  And Jindal for using state helicopters to travel around the state to attend church services.  Are these legitimate knocks?  I take a look at both issues...Read More

Thursday, September 10, 1009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana HEY, LAY OFF BOBBY JINDAL AND THE PRESIDENT! Let the Prez teach and Jindal preach. Remember old Capt. D.C. Boycott?  Sure you do.  He was the notorious Irish landlord who cut the wages of his tenant farmers and got ostracized.  Since then, we regularly hear of someone proposing...Read More

  Edwin Edwards is far from just disappearing from the political scene.  The former governor is 82 years old, from all reports is in good health, and has a year and four months left on his sentence.  A new book will be out late this fall on the life of “The Cajun Prince” that, the...Read More

  How can prosecutors continue to convict innocent citizens, send them to jail, and yes, even put those innocent to death.  You will be surprised, if you take a little time to investigate, at how often this happens.  Look at the chilling video below of Todd Willingham from Texas, who was put to death for...Read More

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  Well it was not a good week for taxpayers as August came to an end.  A tax holiday begins? For tax cheats?  It’s appalling when there are so many other ways to get the money owed?  No high-speed rail, huge subsidies to the Saints when no other state gives any money at all, and...Read More

Is Louisiana justified in being the only state with an NFL football team in giving money to this sports franchise?  No other team gets tax dollars from their state.  So does why Louisiana?  I talk about it on the radio.  Also, how about Louisiana’s Highway department not even applying for federal dollars to build a...Read More

  Thursday, September 3, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana STATE SPENDING UP- SERVICES DOWN Louisiana taxpayers just can’t get a break.  It’s bad enough that the economy continues to languish, unemployment rates are on the rise in the Bayou State, and home foreclosures are increasing.  Even the movie business in the hottest month of the year...Read More

As you regular readers of this site know, I closely follow the political antics of a great national figure-Paris Hilton.  She is saying she just might run for president next time around.  Well, at least be a “fake” president.  Here’s a good interview of Paris getting sound advice from former “West Wing“ Prez Martin Sheen. ...Read More

Daughter Campbell is called one of the very few unbiased news commentators on the national scene today.  Should those presenting the news give it with their own personal political slat, or do you want to hear the facts then make up your own mind?  Take a listen to Campbell then see how you feel? [kml_flashembed...Read More

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Healthcare is dominating the national agenda, with the rhetoric heating up higher almost daily.  And there seems to be so many questionable charges of what will happen if major healthcare reform is put into law by the congress.  Just who’s telling the truth, who is exaggerating, who is there putting out absolute falsehoods?  And what’s...Read More

  One of the great things about this country is that often, we are given a second chance when things just do not go right.  And America is a forgiving country.  But forgiving and rewarding wrongdoing are two separate and different things.  Thus the case of football star Michael Vick.  On this date, he resumes...Read More

  Thursday, August 26, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana WHAT DO WE DO IN LOUISIANA ABOUT THE COST OF HEALTHCARE?  Riots at town hall meetings, threats for an abrupt ending to congressional careers, patrician political posturing and some of the most vitriol rhetoric in recent memory.  All this and more has been churning up continuing controversy...Read More

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Well we habe Bobby hoping to run for President.  And Brad now says he might run for Governor.  So how about Britney also being President?  How would things be different?  David Letterman put the questions to her in his Top Ten nightly list this week.  You can see what her priorities would be.  And we...Read More

  Our Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is in the middle of national controversy over his administrations requests for federal funds to build a high speed rail link between New Orleans and Baton Rouge.  I personally think proposal is a good one, and the numbers should justify the expense.  The problem is that the Governor said...Read More

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  Financial scandals are the range today with Madoff and Stanford leading the culprits.  Some 1700 Louisiana families got scammed by the Stanford group.  A federal receiver has seized Stanford’s assets, while little can be done for Louisiana investors, some who have lost all their savings.  So here’s the question.  What did Louisiana financial regulators...Read More

This whole Stanford group scandal seems to get more strange and murkier.  It’s obvious the boss, Alan Stanford received special treatment from federal and state regulators, and he made major contributions to many elected officials.  And were where those who were supposed to be guarding the hen house?  I talk about Louisiana’s possible liability on...Read More

  We know how narcissistic and what big egos politicians have.  But here are two guys below that really take the cake.  Former Illinois Governor Rudy Blagojevich, presently under indictment, doesn’t seem to have a care in the world as he mounts the stage and does his Elvis imitation.  I gotta tell you Rudy, you...Read More

Thursday, August 19, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana STANFORD REGULATORY SCREW UPS MAY COST LOUISIANA TAXPAYERS HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS Hundreds of irate Stanford investors converged on Baton Rouge this week to protest their financial losses from what they charge was a giant Ponzi scheme by this international investment firm.  Their wrath is directed both at the...Read More

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  So here’s what we know about Insurance.  All these big shots running insurance companies think they have it all figured out.  And they do when it comes to buffaloing the little guy.  They use all this fancy language like credit default swaps and other verbiage that is just a front for simple insurance.  So...Read More

Thursday, August 13, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana WHY CAN’T I GET A LOUISIANA BAILOUT? At first, it was the big financial guys who were “too big to fail” that were getting all that bailout money.  Billions to banks, insurance companies, and then to auto makers.  If you are old enough to remember back to the...Read More

Well there is a cable news war going on and daughter Campbell is right in the middle of it.  Take a gander at her recent comments about the nasty words flying from one cable station to another.Read More

  An “angry mob” is always welcome at Sen. David Vitter’s (R.-La.) town hall meetings, the conservative snare said this past weekend,  Vitter, picking up on  the “mob” rhetoric first floated by national Democrats, complimented protesters who have made their way to lawmakers’ district meetings across the country during the August recess.“please know that this...Read More

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  Introducing the Louisiana Progress Journal View and download here: http://tinyurl.com/laprogress1  FIRST “˜LOUISIANA PROGRESS JOURNAL’ LAUNCHES You might want to take a look at the first edition of the Louisiana Progress Journal which was released by the Louisiana Progress Initiative(LPI). The public policy publication includes five articles that share original thoughts, proposals, and analysis on current...Read More

     It’s been a really bad month for insurance policyholders and taxpayers in Louisiana.  You wonder if anything else traumatic can happen.  Questionable audits, misspending, major investigations, court orders make insurance documents public, troubled companies, and hands down the highest insurance rates in the country.  Can things get any worse?  Why does Louisiana have...Read More

  Thursday, August 6, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana INSURANCE DYSFUNCTION CONTINUES IN LOUISIANA Press reports, both nationally and at home, have confirmed what financial analysts and investigators have known for months.  Louisiana continues to have the most dysfunctional insurance system and the worst insurance climate in the country.  In almost every category, insurance rates are...Read More

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  What is the future of casino gambling in Louisiana?  Income is dropping in casinos throughout the country.  And what happens in the Bayou State if Texas legalizes casino gambling?  I talked about this issue on my radio show recently.  You can see the clip below. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/unyIORr4aQ4" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]Read More

Now I know the saying, “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.”  But I really met a lot of interesting folks I want to share with you.  Now I’m not much of a gambler.  but I do like to hob nob with the stars.  So  take a look below.  You will surely want to come...Read More

You won’t believe this….the yellow dots in the video below are airplanes in the sky during a 24 hour period. Stay with the picture. You will see the light of the day moving from the east to the west, as the Earth spins on it’s axis. Also you will see the aircraft flow of traffic...Read More

I've been a Ray Stevens fan for many years, going back to his great rendition of "Everything is Beautiful."Â  He has a new song out that sums up the feelings of many taxpayers.  Ray was recently a guest on former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee's TV cable show, and sang his new song, " If  10%...Read More

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  The national focus is healthcare and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal last week jumped headlong into the debate.  Jindal says the President’s plan will cost trillions, and he offers his own proposal he says will cost nothing.  Burt is really just “Jindal lite?”Â  And if these ideas are so good, why hasn’t the Governor implemented...Read More

Thursday, July 230, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana OBAMA AND JINDAL ON HEALTHCARE ONE TO MUCH, ONE TOO LITTLE The President is facing an uphill fight in his quest to change the face of health care delivery in the United States.  Each day, more and more Americans are concluding that the billions being spent to shore...Read More

So I’m walkin’ into the Whole Foods in Baton Rouge over the weekend, and there sits this musician, a guy with 5 or 6 instruments, just singing and playing for all he’s worth.  He wore an Italian gondolier’s flared back hat with a feather in it, and royally entertained the crowd all afternoon.  His name...Read More

  Possible US Senate candidate in Louisiana and porn star Stormy Daniels make be getting a little apprehensive about her future political career.  Her campaign manager, political consultant Brian Welch, had his car bombed this week.  Completely destroyed.  Stormy thinks it’s no coincidence and quite suspicious.  Has Louisiana politics become that dangerous?  Take a look...Read More

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  In an op-ed this week in Politico, Gov. Bobby Jindal panned the federal stimulus funding  as “a nearly trillion-dollar stimulus that has not stimulated.” Yet as Think Progress, Bayou Buzz and other on-line sources were quick to point out, a sizable portion of the money the governor is doling out during his “Louisiana Working” tour is...Read More

  Well it looks like the Republicans have a major Democratic opponent next year for incumbent David Vitter.  Congressman Charlie Melancon has all but announced he is running for Vitter’s seat. The mudslinging has begun early as the National Republican Senate campaign committee knows they have their hands full re electing Vitter.  The Senator actually...Read More

  The Louisiana Governor seemed to be getting all the attention this past weekend in Biloxi at the National Governors’ Conference.  But Bobby Jindal was a no show, right?  So who got all the attention?  Jim brown gives a firsthand observation that you will hear or read no place else.  He was there and saw...Read More

  Thursday, July 23, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana LOUISIANA GOVERNOR MAKES BIG SPLASH AT NATIONAL GOVERNORS’ CONFERENCE BUT WHO? It was like old home week at the National Governors’ Conference in Biloxi, Mississippi this past weekend.  The Louisiana Governor seemed to be the center of attention, with other state governors coming up to greet, give...Read More

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Helen Gentry Brown (Died July 18, 2009) Mrs. Helen Brown passed away peacefully on Saturday, July 18, 2009, after a brief illness. Funeral services will begin at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, July 21, 2009, at the First Presbyterian Church of Shreveport with Rev. Bryan McDowell officiating. A reception will follow in the church parlor. There...Read More

  There is all this new lingo in national politics.  Remember “Getting Borked” and of course the “Hanging chads?” We won’t forget “Lipstick on a pit bull.”Â  But the latest is a “wise Latina,” two words that have been repeated ad nauseam since the middle of May, when the record of Supreme Court nominee Sonia...Read More

  Thursday, July 16, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana SOTOMAYOR DOES NOT PASS THE FAIRNESS TEST   “Elections have consequences.” These were the words of South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, as he questioned Judge Sonia Sotomayor on the first day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearings.  “Republicans lost the November election and President Obama won.  And that...Read More

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  I had this really weird dream last night.  I mean really, really weird.  It involved me (of course), sharks, Bobby Jindal and Stormy Daniels.  Can you believe the Governor and I are in a video with Stormy?  Now where did all that come from?  So  take a look at tell me if you can...Read More

While in Italy for the G8 summit, President Barack Obama checked out the, er, sights. The Prez should know you never look back, only forward. Take a look at the video below.  I still think the Prez is “checkig out” the girl.  What do you think? [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/maV2Zg5_uz0" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]Read More

(Thoughts on the guy who called himself “The King of pop.”)  During the past two weeks, we have heard reams of commentary about Michael Jackson, the victim.  That was the tone of numerous eulogies at his funeral He was  pictured as a victim of some mysterious stew of health maladies, public persecution, and secret sad...Read More

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  Last week in my column, I pointed out the stumbling blocks encountered by La. Gov. Bobby Jindal since his less than stellar response to the President’s State of the Union speech in February.  I promised this week to set out some concrete ideas to get Jindal some national attention, and keep him in the...Read More

   I’m tryin’ my best to learn to play the fiddle, but it’s obvious I have a long, long way to go.  What progress I have made is because of a good teacher, Mitch Reed.  He plays both fiddle and bass with world renowned zydeco group, Beau Soleil.  Below is my visit with Mitch and...Read More

Over many political campaigns, a must stop on your way to Lafayette was Crawfish Town, USA, in Henderson.    I dropped in for lunch this week, and had the chance to look back and some bizarre events that took place here.  You can check it all out in the video below. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/fkB_mtw1ueA" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent"...Read More

  Thursday, July 9, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana IS BOBBY JINDAL STILL VIABLE NATIONALLY? “Whatever happened to Bobby Jindal?”Â  That is the question posed in this month’s Economist Magazine.  “At one point he was the great hope of the GOP and now we hardly hear a word about him.”Â  So is it time to begin...Read More

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