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Thomas Sowell
Are race riots news?
When I first saw a book with the title, "White Girl Bleed A Lot" by Colin Flaherty, I instantly knew what it was about, even though I had not seen the book reviewed anywhere, and knew nothing about...
Jul 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Risks and Rewards
One of the things I admire most about business people—particularly small business people—is that they have the courage to take risks. Free market capitalism isn’t for the faint of heart. Those folk...
Jul 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Hagler, Hearns revisted?
I will never forget "The War" between boxers "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler and Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns fought on April 15, 1985 (www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VI-M9Yw-28). I watched it at a closed-circuit b...
Jul 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Thomas Sowell
Jobs Versus Net Jobs
One of the reasons for the popularity of political rhetoric is that everybody can be right, in terms of their own rhetoric, no matter how much the rhetoric of one side contradicts the rhetoric of t...
Jul 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Judas
Everyone seems to be giving their opinion on John Roberts, the conservative, oops, the Judas Justice on the Supreme Court so I might as well give mine. The liberal news media and pundits had alread...
Jul 13, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Thomas Sowell
Judicial Betrayal
Betrayal is hard to take, whether in our personal lives or in the political life of the nation. Yet there are people in Washington -- too often, Republicans -- who start living in the Beltway atmos...
Jul 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ronnie Anderson, a beef cattle producer and forage grower from Ethel, has been re-elected president of the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation. (PHOTO/Submitted)
Ethel's Ronnie Anderson re-elected president of Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation
Ronnie Anderson, a beef cattle producer and forage grower from Ethel, has been re-elected president of the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation. Anderson, 62, begins his 24th term as president of the s...
Jul 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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THINGS THAT CAUGHT MY EYE LAST WEEK: What the heck difference does it make?
John Roberts, Chief Justice of the United States, confused me (and many others) greatly in rendering his obtuse majority decision upholding the individual mandate in the court's Affordable Care Act...
Jul 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Irrigate wisely this summer
July is Smart Irrigation Month across the country. This is an effort of the Irrigation Association to educate industry professionals and homeowners on proper irrigation in the landscape. In order f...
Jul 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Mike Reitz is the President and CEO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana. (PHOTO/Submitted)
The seventy percent solution
News flash! The day after the Supreme Court voted to uphold the healthcare reform act, the sun continued to shine and the planets remained aligned. Now that the uncertainty is gone, it’s time to t...
Jul 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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State retirement systems remain broken
 In the early weeks leading up to the 2012 Legislative Session, state lawmakers were inundated with phone calls and correspondence regarding Governor Jindal’s education reform initiative.  But soon...
Jul 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Thomas Sowell
The Immigration Ploy
President Obama's latest political ploy -- granting new "rights" out of thin air, by Executive Order, to illegal immigrants who claim that they were brought into the country when they were children...
Jun 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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