There’s often a fine line between patriotism and treason.
Colonial soldiers in the American Revolution were treasonous toward their British rulers, but they also held an attachment to the colonies....
The U.S. government needs to take its dirty little hands out of the marriage issue.
More than 80 Republicans, including Jon Huntsman and my personal hero Clint Eastwood, signed a letter to the Supreme...
Brandon Scott Lavergne, the Churchpoint man who was convicted for the murder of Mickey Shunick and Lisa Marie Pate, has complained of some unfair treatment in his Angola home within the past recent months.
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Women have all heard the advice to stay safe from the ephemeral rapist — carry pepper spray, take a defense course, don’t ever walk alone.
But that doesn’t take into account the...
If you are a college-aged male, you’ve probably considered donating sperm a time or ten.
And why not? Men produce gallons of the stuff for tissues, toilets and trash cans every day — ...
American universities are focusing too much on getting students jobs and not enough on making people smarter.
For example, there’s no need — other than the cultural one — to go to LSU...
In the virulent vacuum that American politics has become, reality is merely a concept.
If you think about it, this state of being makes sense: Facts are too boringly concrete. They’re depressing.
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For students living on Ben Hur Road, problematic drunken ride situations used to be as customary as the pungent taste someone receives when uttering the phrase, “Roll Tide.”
Being rideless...
Earlier this month, the Vermont Complex Systems Center released a government-funded study that calculated the happiest and saddest states and cities in the U.S.
You must be thinking, Mardi Gras was earlier...
A diploma from LSU may soon be worth less than the picture frame that holds it.
OK, I’m exaggerating. But it definitely won’t be worth the roughly six-figure tuition, fees and living expenses...
Congress just won’t let up with the Internet legislation.
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) is back after being defeated in the summer of 2012.
Like the “deadites”...
You only get one chance to educate your child.
In Louisiana, if a child is in a poorly rated or failing public school, that child now has the opportunity despite family income to attend an alternate...
