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All content by John Parker Ford
Opinion: Squirrels are next on the hit list

Opinion: Squirrels are next on the hit list

By John Parker Ford
May 1, 2013
A caterpillar clings to a handrail Tuesday, April 23, 2013 underneath a tree near Mike the Tiger's habitat.

Opinion: We should eradicate the campus caterpillar population

By John Parker Ford
April 23, 2013
Flowers sit at a police barrier near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston Tuesday, April 16, 2013. The bombs that ripped through the crowd at the Boston Marathon, killing at least three people and wounding more than 170, were fashioned out of pressure cookers and packed with shards of metal, nails and ball bearings to inflict maximum carnage, a person briefed on the investigation said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)

Americans prove they will help one another, strengthening bonds

By John Parker Ford
April 16, 2013
Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., is considered vulnerable as she seeks a fourth term. (Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta, AP)

Opinion: Cassidy is legitimate competition for Landrieu in 2013

By John Parker Ford
April 9, 2013

Opinion: Drunk driving can kill people; pledge to stop

By John Parker Ford
March 27, 2013
LSU finance junior John Woodard, Unite LSU's presidential candidate, answers a question for the Univerisity Court justices Saturday, March 16, 2013 for the Unite LSU vs Elections Board case in the Vieux Carre Room in the Student Union.

Opinion: I’m now embarrassed to be a previous SG member

By John Parker Ford
March 24, 2013
Newly reinstated Student Government Vice President Taylor Parks (left) and President John Woodard (right) smile and stand with a supporter after UCourt's verdict Sunday, May 17, 2013.

Opinion: Dear John, Here are some suggestions for SG

By John Parker Ford
March 18, 2013

Opinion: Reduction of SG Scantron program is all your fault

By John Parker Ford
March 14, 2013
A woman wipes photos of late President Hugo Chavez at a makeshift altar set in his honor at the main square of Sabaneta, western Venezuela on Saturday, March 9, 2013. Chavez, who died of cancer on March 5, 2013 was born in Sabaneta. His former home has been turned into the local headquarters of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, PSUV. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Opinion: World a better place after Chavez’s death

By John Parker Ford
March 11, 2013
Hundreds gathered at the State Capitol Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013 in St. Paul, Minn., where supporters of gay marriage called for Minnesota lawmakers to legalize gay marriage. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

The Pickup Perspective: Should the federal government allow gay marriage?

By John Parker Ford
March 4, 2013

Opinion: Higher education should not just serve as job factory

By John Parker Ford
February 28, 2013

Opinion: LSU presidential candidates should be secret

By John Parker Ford
February 24, 2013
This cartoon depicts the country’s first president, George Washington. President’s day celebrates his birthday and honors all past presidents.

Opinion: George Washington was a divinely assisted badass

By John Parker Ford
February 17, 2013
The "death bed" in the death chamber is separated by bars, foreground, from the witness viewing room at the Walls Unit of the Texas Department of Corrections in Huntsville, Texas, in this Jan. 25, 1995 file photo. Texas was the venue for the nation's most recent execution. Murderer Michael Richard died by lethal injection there on Sept. 25. Since then, executions in Texas and other states have been put on hold pending a Supreme Court decision _ expected no sooner than June _ on whether the standard lethal injection procedure can cause pain severe enough to violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, file)

Opinion: The death penalty is appropriate in some cases

By John Parker Ford
February 13, 2013
FILE - In this Friday, July 27, 2012 file photo, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal speaks in Hot Springs, Ark. Jindal is calling on the Republican Party to, quote, “recalibrate the compass of conservatism.” The Republican governor will deliver the keynote address at the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting Thursday night in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)

Opinion: Jindal a transformative force in Republican party

By John Parker Ford
February 7, 2013

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

By John Parker Ford
January 29, 2013

A personal look at dealing with Louisiana higher education

By John Parker Ford
January 29, 2013
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
NRA’s Wayne LaPierre blames violent video games, among other things, for mass shootings across the nation. “Bulletstorm,” pictured above, is one such violent game.

Opinion: Video game violence not worth time and money

By John Parker Ford
January 22, 2013

Opinion: Forget revenue neutrality; Jindal’s tax plan must increase revenue

By John Parker Ford
January 17, 2013
FILE - In this Jan. 1, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama, right, and Vice President Joe Biden make a statement regarding the passage of the fiscal cliff bill in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington. After Republicans and Democrats alike reluctantly shunned their core supporters and reached a bipartisan compromise to avert a fiscal crisis, there's a reasonable question to ask: Did American lawmakers actually _ for a moment, at least _ listen to the regular Joes and Janes pleading for a gridlocked Washington to get something, anything, done? (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Opinion: ‘The Pickup Perspective’ – Should a rise in the debt ceiling be tied to spending cuts?

By John Parker Ford
January 14, 2013