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The President's Column: Saving the Bacon
For some reason, bacon just can’t seem to stay out of the news. As the nation’s severe drought wore on this summer, consumers became worried about higher food prices and shortages. What food produc...
Nov 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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And Down the Stretch They Come
Nov. 6 is almost here. It likely will be quite a horse race carrying on well into the evening election night. Like antsy thoroughbreds in their final warm-ups, Obama and Romney are pawing the dirt ...
Nov 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Move Over, Saudi Arabia!
Throughout my 40 years representing the business community—first with the Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce and then with LABI—I have been a student of energy issues and energy economics. I was...
Nov 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Libya and Lies
It was a little much when President Barack Obama said that he was "offended" by the suggestion that his administration would try to deceive the public about what happened in Benghazi. What has this...
Nov 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Who’s on first?
There are a lot of folks confused about the recent report on the unemployment rate. Some have the audacity to suggest that the numbers have been rigged by the federal government at 7.8 percent (les...
Oct 31, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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The President's Column: Candidates on Farm Policy
Ahead of the upcoming election, President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney spelled out their positions on agriculture issues for the American Farm Bureau Federation. In a questionnai...
Oct 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Spending is a Bipartisan Obsession
If you engage with government long enough, as I have, it is hard not to become cynical. Then again, cynics often see an unfiltered version of the truth. At this moment, politics weigh heavily upon ...
Oct 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Random Thoughts
Random thoughts on the passing scene: Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in the modern welfare state, whe...
Oct 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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The President's Column ~ Agriculture Biotechnology
The French philosopher Voltaire famously said, “Common sense is not so common.” Activists trying to disprove the safety of agriculture biotechnology seem devoted to proving his witticism. Another s...
Oct 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Role of the Coach in High School Sports
According to legendary college football coach Lou Holtz, “We are on the field and in the locker room to teach our players how to win. Not just on the gridiron, but in any profession they choose. We...
Oct 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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How Louisiana's tax climate stacks up nationally
The Tax Foundation has released its 2013 State Business Tax Climate Index. It ranks Louisiana in the bottom half of states at 32nd (the lower the number, the better the score in this index). The Ta...
Oct 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Phony in Chief
When President Barack Obama and others on the left are not busy admonishing the rest of us to be "civil" in our discussions of political issues, they are busy letting loose insults, accusations and...
Oct 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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