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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal thanks supporters during his re-election victory party at the Renaissance Hotel in Baton Rouge on Oct. 22, 2011.

Opinion: Governor’s policies better fit for alternate reality

By Gordon Brillon February 3, 2013

Imagine, if you will, a world parallel to our own. It is a peaceful world   — a world where business thrives unfettered and job creators are revered. It is a world in which people are...

Opinion: Donald Trump Looking to Buy N.Y. Times

By Jay Meyers January 31, 2013

The unfettered flow of objective, bias-free news and information, available to everyone, is essential to having both a well-informed electorate and ultimately a successful democracy. Unfortunately, this...

Opinion: Baton Rouge should make drunk driving legal

Opinion: Baton Rouge should make drunk driving legal

By Megan Dunbar January 31, 2013

Dear Tigers, are you done with DUIs? Aren’t you sick and tired of bumming rides after drinking too much in Tigerland? Don’t you wish you could sip a cold one while flying down River Road? ...

Fireworks explode as the NFL Super Bowl XLVII Roman numerals float on the Mississippi River Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, in New Orleans. The city will host the football game between the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Opinion: Mardi Gras atmosphere may heighten emotions as Super Bowl Sunday makes a home in the Big Easy

By John Polivka January 31, 2013

Well, it’s that time of year again.  It’s time for the liquor to flow like water as thousands drown themselves in beads and shame along Bourbon Street, while pizza from The Boot litters...

The 0.44-pound runt kitten Cheddar sits in a 16-ounce coffee mug. Cats are estimated to kill between 1.4 and 3.7 billion birds annually in the United States.

Opinion: Cats lethal species, top threat to U.S. wildlife

By Parker Cramer January 30, 2013

Are you living with a lethal pussy? Cats. Yes, cats, could be the most killer species in the US. Cats are estimated to kill between 1.4 and 3.7 billion birds annually in the US, according to Nature...

White supremacist Jeff Hall holds a Neo Nazi ag outside his California home Oct. 22, 2010. The Jewish community is one of the many cultural groups protected by the Hate Crimes Prevention Act.

Opinion: Hate crime legislation has good intentions, but falls flat

By Aaron Friedman January 30, 2013

Sex trafficking, fraud, forced human labor and murder. Linda Ann Weston — the woman charged with committing these acts and the ringleader of a group who caged four mentally disabled adults in a...

Opinion: Keep sexual predators off my Facebook, Indiana

By Gordon Brillon January 30, 2013

Facebook is a creepy place. You can look through picture galleries of people you’ve never met, check where everyone you know is at all times, and do it all without anyone ever knowing about it. ...

Anthrocon is the world’s largest convention for people who dress and assume the rolls of  fictional animal characters. “Furries” can meet one another on dating sites like pounced.org and furrymate.com.

Opinion: Good credit doesn’t necessarily mean good lovin’

By Aaron Friedman January 29, 2013

I must be heartless.  When I first heard about datemycreditscore.com and creditscoredating.com, online dating services for people with good credit, I thought we’d finally shattered the “soul...

Opinion: Louisiana education needs fixin’: part two of two

By John Parker Ford January 29, 2013

Louisiana’s population is about 4.6 million people, and the state has a whopping 14 four-year public higher education institutions to support. Florida’s state population is a little more...

Opinion: Jindal often disappears from Louisiana, returning only to vanquish budgets

Opinion: Jindal often disappears from Louisiana, returning only to vanquish budgets

By Ben Wallace January 29, 2013

“Pick a card, any card!” said Bobby J. Slick, Louisiana’s most famous magician, recently returned from his latest disappearing act to North Carolina and Washington, D.C. “If I don’t...

Julius Patrick Elementary School pupil Terry Lotts, front left, points out a duck to Alexandria Museum of Art resident artist Cindy Blair Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, in Alexandria, La. The Alexandria Museum of Art is working with local elementary schools to provide Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) training and implementation. (AP Photo/The Daily Town Talk, Melinda Martinez) NO SALES

Opinion: Louisiana education needs fixin’: part one of two

By John Parker Ford January 28, 2013

Louisiana public education is plagued with problems. Students aren’t graduating from high school, students who can’t read are being asked to write book reports, teachers either don’t...

FILE - In a May 9, 2012 file photo, Capt. Sara Rodriguez, 26, of the 101st Airborne Division, carries a litter of sandbags during the Expert Field Medical Badge training at Fort Campbell, Ky. The Pentagon is lifting its ban on women serving in combat, opening hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and potentially elite commando jobs after generations of limits on their service, defense officials said Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Kristin M. Hall, File)

‘Run to the Mills’: Should women be allowed to serve on the front lines?

By Landon Mills January 28, 2013

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and General Martin E. Dempsey have announced their lifting of the 1994 ban on women in combat roles. This isn’t the first time the discussion of women’s...