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• How Bad Can Insurance Climate Get?

  —Louisiana Conservative

    Thursday, December 10, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana THE WORST OF TIMES FOR LOUISIANA INSURANCE Remember ole’ Calypso Joe doing the limbo and singing in that deep voice…”How low can you go?”  Few would be surprised if they learned he was singing about that state of insurance affairs in Louisiana.   To many observers, 2009 [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 7:42pm EST
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• Sarah Palin’s New Book-What a Read!

  —Louisiana Conservative

    Thursday, December 3, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana SARAH PALIN WOULD FIT IN WELL IN LOUISIANA! Did you actually read Sarah Palin’s new book, Going Rouge?  Sure it’s a national best seller.  I had no plans to buy it.   Nothing against Sarah.  I really liked the Newsweek cover with Sarah in her jogging shorts. [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 9:30pm EST
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• Good Trading Partner for Louisiana?

  —Louisiana Conservative

    Thursday, November 25, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana JINDAL AND INDIA A RARE OPPORTUNITY FOR LOUISIANA Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal was the token Republican at the Obama first State Dinner this week.  It would be pretty crass for the President to exclude Jindal, the first and only Indian American Governor, from a state dinner honoring [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:26am EST
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• Did Bill Jefferson get a fair shake?

  —Louisiana Conservative

   Thursday, November 19, 2009 New Orleans, Louisiana WILL BOGUS CHARGES GIVE BILL JEFFERSONA NEW TRIAL? Former New Orleans Congressman Bill Jefferson got a thirteen year sentence and will soon be heading to jail.  Ninety thousand dollars in his freezer?  Has to be a “slam dunk” for the prosecutors, although Jefferson says he will [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:34pm EST
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•   Thursday, November 12,, 2009 New Orleans, ...

  —Louisiana Conservative

    Thursday, November 12,, 2009 New Orleans, Louisiana WHY AREN’T WE THE GREATEST GENERATION? By Jim Brown Ten years ago, Tom Brokaw wrote a book about what he called “the greatest generation.”  And now, there is a new best seller out calling America today “the dumbest generation.”  And since Louisiana is at the bottom of [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 8:30pm EST
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• History will Treat Him Well!

  —Louisiana Conservative

    Thursday, November 5, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana THE ONLY TRUE CONSERVATIVE GOVERNOR? DAVE TREEN!  The accolades for former Louisiana Governor Dave Treen have been pouring in, and rightly so.  He has been called a lot of nice names and everyone quoted has pegged him as a “good guy.”  He was “an inspiration,” said [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:28pm EST
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• Highs and Lows of Billy Cannon

  —Louisiana Conservative

    Thursday, October 29, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana COUNTERFEITIN’ BILLY CANNON- THE TOAST OF LSU By Jim Brown Even though it’s just a second rate game for the LSU Tigers this Saturday night against Tulane, the crowd noise in Tiger Stadium will be deafening, but not because the ninth ranked Tigers should make mincemeat out of [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 9:39pm EDT
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• Streamlining Commission-Where’s the Focus?

  —Louisiana Conservative

  The much ballyhooed Louisiana Governmental Streamlining Commission is under fire for getting off to a slow start and not considering immediate options to reduce state spending.  The legislatively created commission approved by Governor Bobby Jindal was charged to review the structure of state government and adopt ways to streamline, consolidate, [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 4:49pm EDT
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• Get Ready for More Insurance Problems!

  —Louisiana Conservative

    Thursday, October 15, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana BLEAK LOUISIANA INSURANCE CLIMATE IN MONTHS TO COME! There should be plenty of good news on the property insurance front, both in Louisiana and throughout the gulf south.  Hurricane season is over, the third year in a row without the threat of a major storm. One would [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 5:24pm EDT
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• The Jihadists-Bring em’ on to Louisiana!

  —Louisiana Conservative

    Thursday, October 8, 2009 New Orleans, Louisiana OH MY GOD — THE TERRORISTS ARE COMING TO LOUISIANA! There are 241 remaining detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, and the president says he will shut it down in early 2010.  So where do you send these suspected terrorists?  Other countries don’t want them. So do you [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 5:29pm EDT
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• Legislature-Stay out of Redistricting!

  —Louisiana Conservative

  Thursday, October 1, 2009 Shreveport, Louisiana GET THE POLITICIANS OUT OF REAPPORTIONMENT It’s getting close to redistricting time for legislators, and already criticism is raining down on this politically sensitive process that decisions are being shaped behind closed doors.  Lawmakers have scheduled a two day “educational workshop” in Alexandria next month to learn [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 9:14pm EDT
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• Louisiana far behind Louisiana on Property Insurance!

  —Louisiana Conservative

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    Thursday, September 24, 2009 Perdido Key, Florida LOUISIANA AND FLORIDA- NIGHT AND DAY ON PROPERTY INSURANCE! By Jim Brown All this week, Florida’s largest newspaper, the Miami Herald, has been writing both feature articles and editorials about the problems facing Florida property owners in finding affordable insurance.  Day after day, headlines conveyed the intensity of [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 6:44pm EDT
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• What’s a lie matter in politics?

  —Louisiana Conservative

    Thursday, September 17, 2009 Perdido Key, Florida IN LOUISIANA, JUST TELL EM I LIED! When South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson hollered out “You lie” as the President was addressing congress last week, even Louisiana republicans were aghast.  Northeast Louisiana congressman Rodney Alexander summed up the delegation’s response.  “I was embarrassed,” Alexander said after [...]
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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 9:20pm EDT
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• Let the Prez teach and Jindal preach!

  —Louisiana Conservative

    Thursday, September 10, 1009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana HEY, LAY OFF BOBBY JINDAL AND THE PRESIDENT! By Jim Brown Remember old Capt. D.C. Boycott?  Sure you do.  He was the notorious Irish landlord who cut the wages of his tenant farmers and got ostracized.  Since then, we regularly hear of someone proposing a “boycott.”  And [...]
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  Posted: September 09, 2009, 7:45pm EDT
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• Bad Week for Louisiana Taxpayers!

  —Louisiana Conservative

    Thursday, September 3, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana STATE SPENDING UP-SERVICES DOWN by Jim Brown Louisiana taxpayers just can’t get a break.  It’s bad enough that the economy continues to languish, unemployment rates are on the rise in the Bayou State, and home foreclosures are increasing.  Even the movie business in the hottest month of [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2009, 8:30pm EDT
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• Making Sense of the Healthcare Debate!

  —Louisiana Conservative

    Thursday, August 26, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana WHAT DO WE DO IN LOUISIANA ABOUT THE COST OF HEALTHCARE?  By Jim Brown Riots at town hall meetings, threats for an abrupt ending to congressional careers, patrician political posturing and some of the most vitriol rhetoric in recent memory.  All this and more has been churning up [...]
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  Posted: August 26, 2009, 10:01pm EDT
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•   Thursday, August 19, 2009 Baton Rouge, ...

  —Louisiana Conservative

    Thursday, August 19, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana STANFORD REGULATORY SCREW UPS MAY COST LOUISIANA TAXPAYERS HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS  By Jim Brown Hundreds of irate Sanford investors converged on Baton Rouge this week to protest their financial losses from what they charge was a giant Ponzi scheme by this international investment firm.  Their wrath is directed [...]
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  Posted: August 19, 2009, 9:23pm EDT
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• Louisian Insurance Under the Gun!

  —Louisiana Conservative

    Thursday, August 13, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana WHY CAN’T I GET A LOUISIANA BAILOUT? At first, it was the big financial guys who were “too big to fail” that were getting all that bailout money.  Billions to banks, insurance companies, and then to auto makers.  If you are old enough to remember back [...]
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  Posted: August 12, 2009, 6:12pm EDT
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• Louisiana’s Terrible Insurance Climate!

  —Louisiana Conservative

    Thursday, August 6, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana INSURANCE DYSFUNCTION CONTINUES IN LOUISIANA By Jim Brown Press reports, both nationally and at home, have confirmed what financial analysists and investigators have known for months.  Louisiana continues to have the most dysfunctional insurance system and the worst insurance climate in the country.  In almost every category, insurance [...]
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  Posted: August 05, 2009, 9:56pm EDT
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• Whose Right-Obama or Jindal?

  —Louisiana Conservative

    Thursday, July 30, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana OBAMA AND JINDAL ON HEALTHCARE ONE TOO MUCH, ONE TOO LITTLE By Jim Brown The President is facing an uphill fight in his quest to change the face of healthcare delivery in the US.  Each day, more and more Americans are concluding that the billions being spent to [...]
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  Posted: July 29, 2009, 9:40pm EDT
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• So What Governor Showed at National Governors’ Confrence?

  —Louisiana Conservative

    Thursday, July 23, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana LOUISIANA GOVERNOR MAKES BIG SPLASH AT NATIONAL GOVERNORS’ CONFERENCE BUT WHO? By Jim Brown It was like old home week at the National Governors’ Conference in Biloxi, Mississippi this past weekend.  The Louisiana Governor seemed to be the center of attention, with other state governors coming up to greet, [...]
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  Posted: July 22, 2009, 7:44pm EDT
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• Is Sotomayor the Best Pick for Supreme Court?

  —Louisiana Conservative

    Thursday, July 16, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana SOTOMAYOR DOES NOT  PASS THE FAIRNESS TEST  By Jim Brown “Elections have consequences.” These were the words of South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, as he questioned Judge Sonia Sotomayor on the first day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearings.  “Republicans lost the November election and President Obama won.  [...]
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  Posted: July 15, 2009, 9:23pm EDT
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• Any National Future Left for Bobby Jindal?

  —Louisiana Conservative

    Thursday, July 9, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana IS BOBBY JINDAL STILL VIABLE NATIONALLY? By Jim Brown “Whatever happened to Bobby Jindal?”  That is the question posed in this month’s Economist Magazine.  “At one point he was the great hope of the GOP and now we hardly hear a word about him.”  So is it [...]
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  Posted: July 08, 2009, 8:43pm EDT
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• Can Bobby Jindal Be Resurrected?

  —Louisiana Conservative

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    Thursday, July 2, 2009 Linville, North Carolina IS BOBBY JINDAL OUT OF THE NATIONAL POLITICAL PICTURE? By Jim Brown That’s the question posed to me by a group of political consultants meeting in Charlotte this week as they tried to ferret out what Republican is a viable contender for the 2012 presidential nomination.  The group [...]
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  Posted: July 01, 2009, 9:47pm EDT
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• Get Rid of Voting Rights Act! (Jim Brown)

  —Louisiana Conservative

     Thursday, June 18, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana LOUISIANA A SECOND RATE STATE  UNDER VOTING RIGHTS ACT! Are institutionalized acts of racism interwoven in the election procedures that regularly take place in Louisiana?  Is there a concentrated effort on the part of Louisiana elections officials to put up barriers so that it is more difficult [...]
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  Posted: June 17, 2009, 8:39pm EDT
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• Hurricane Season in Louisiana-Any Help from Legislature?

  —Louisiana Conservative

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        Thursday June 11, 2009 New Orleans, Louisiana LOUISIANA HURRICANE SEASON DO YOU FEEL LUCKY?  WELL DO YA? A dangerous hurricane season this year?  Forecasters are predicting nine to 14 named tropical storms with four to seven of them expected to be hurricanes. And three could be major.  Or as Dirty Harry would say: 44 [...]
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  Posted: June 13, 2009, 9:06pm EDT
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• Can LSU Ever Come Back?

  —Louisiana Conservative

    Thursday, June 4, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana THE RISE AND FALL OF LSU Huey Long was the best friend and supporter LSU ever had.  He was called the father of the modern LSU by the Virginia Quarterly Review in commenting that “Huey stroked LSU as if he had been coddling a newborn pet [...]
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  Posted: June 03, 2009, 8:01pm EDT
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• Louisiana Out of the Mix on Supreme Court!

  —Louisiana Conservative

    Thursday, May 28, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana A SUPREME COURT APPOINTEE FROM LOUISIANA? FAT CHANCE! Before the President made his choice this week for a new nominee to fill the coming vacancy on the United States Supreme Court, the White House undertook a nationwide search.  There were parameters.  The pick was certain to be [...]
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  Posted: May 27, 2009, 9:47pm EDT
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• Financial Scandals-Whose at Fault?

  —Louisiana Conservative

    Thursday, May 21, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana STANFORD AND MADOFF HAD ACCOMPLICES THEIR VICTIMS! There are three things you should learn early in life.  Don’t play poker with a guy named Slim.  Don’t buy a Rolex form a guy on the street who’s out of breath.  And don’t put your money in some exotic [...]
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  Posted: May 20, 2009, 5:05pm EDT
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• You Have Your Freedom of Choice Too!

  —Louisiana Conservative

    Thursday, May 14, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana FREEDOM OF CHOICE IN MOTORCYCLE HELMET DEBATE One of the hottest issues in the current session of the Louisiana Legislature, meeting at the state capitol in Baton Rouge, is the repeal of a law that currently mandates the wearing of a safety helmet when riding a [...]
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  Posted: May 13, 2009, 10:20pm EDT
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• Are the New Orleans Saints Worth the Price?

  —Louisiana Conservative

    Thursday, May 7, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana   A HIGH PRICE TO KEEP THE SAINTS! The plan seems to be “Keep the Saints at any price.”  Proposals at Louisiana’s state capitol to give millions of dollars a year for decades to come is steamrolling through the legislature.  Governor Bobby Jindal says the deal will [...]
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  Posted: May 07, 2009, 12:23am EDT
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• Hold on to Your Wallets-Danger in Baton Rouge

  —Louisiana Conservative

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    Thursday April 30, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana KEEP YOUR HEAD DOWN THE LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE’S IN SESSION Every observer of Louisiana politics is aware of Mark Twain’s adage:  “No man’s life, liberty or property is safe while the Legislature is in session.”  Actually, it was New York Judge Gideon Tucker who first made the perceptive [...]
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  Posted: April 29, 2009, 10:07pm EDT
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• The High Cost of Local Government!

  —Louisiana Conservative

    Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 Shreveport, Louisiana BRING LOCAL AND STATE GOVERNMENT IN LOUISIANA INTO THE TWENTY FIRST  CENTURY!  Just how many boards, commissions, water districts, sewer districts, parish auditors, law enforcement offices, and a whole list of other special districts are spread throughout Louisiana? No one really seems to know.  Some estimates are [...]
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  Posted: April 22, 2009, 9:18pm EDT
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• Why are Prosecutors Special under the Law?

  —Louisiana Conservative

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    Thursday, April 16, 2009 New York City, New York IT’S TIME TO END LEGAL  IMMUNITY FOR PROSECUTORS If you have followed the criminal case of former US Sen. Ted Stevens from Alaska, a title of a future book or video could well be titled “prosecutors gone wild.” Stevens was convicted of accepting gifts [...]
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  Posted: April 15, 2009, 8:52pm EDT
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• Where’s All the Tournment Money Going?

  —Louisiana Conservative

  Thursday, April 9, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana MARCH MADNESS ARE ATHLETES BEING SHORT CHANGED? Millions of rabid college basketball fans have been glued to their TVs over the past month as March Madness reached its crescendo this past Monday night.  My North Carolina Tar Heels rose to the occasion to win its second national [...]
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  Posted: April 08, 2009, 5:26pm EDT
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• Politics and Good Food in Paris

  —Louisiana Conservative

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    Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 Paris, France FRANCE, APRIL FOOL’S AND LOUISIANA After a week in Paris, four things are quite apparent.  The French despise George Bush, really like Barack Obama, love Louisiana, and delight in playing April fool’s jokes.  Seriousness was put aside yesterday as the French continued the traditional they believe they [...]
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  Posted: April 01, 2009, 5:58pm EDT
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• Baseball and Politics

  —Louisiana Conservative

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    Thursday, March 5, 2009 Tampa, Florida ARE BASEBALL AND POLITICS INTERTWINED? By Jim Brown Just what is America’s favorite pastime? Is it baseball or politics? This past few weeks offers interesting contrasts. On the one hand, we went from a full-blown presidential campaign right into a major political controversy of how to “stimulate” the [...]
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  Posted: March 04, 2009, 9:52pm EST
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• Jindal gets Panned after State of the Union Response

  —Louisiana Conservative

    Thursday, February 26th, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana JINDAL A TOUGH SELL ON A NATIONAL STAGE By Jim Brown Bobby Jindal had an uphill fight to begin with this past Tuesday evening when he was the Republican pick to give a response to the President’s State of the Union speech.  He was thrown into the [...]
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  Posted: February 25, 2009, 6:21pm EST
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• Jindal on Hot Seat with Stimulus Package?

  —Louisiana Conservative

    Thursday, February 19th, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana JINDAL PUTS LEGISLATORS IN SPOT OVER STIMULUS FUNDING In state after state across the country, cash-starved governors from both parties are anxiously awaiting federal dollars from the stimulus package that Congress passed just last Friday. One governor though who seems less than enthusiastic over receiving such a [...]
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  Posted: February 18, 2009, 8:27pm EST
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• David Vitter and the Stimulus Package

  —Louisiana Conservative

   By Jim Brown Thursday, February 12th, 2009 New Orleans, Louisiana SEN. DAVID VITTER AND THE STIMULUS PACKAGE Louisiana’s US Sen. David Vitter seems to be leading the charge of Republican opposition to the proposed stimulus package.  Let’s get things straight. We are talking here about the federal government stimulus package, not the stimulus being [...]
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  Posted: February 16, 2009, 10:24pm EST
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• Supreme Court Gets Little Done!

  —Louisiana Conservative

  Thursday, February 5th, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana TIME FOR SUPREME COURT TO GET TO WORK Thirty Seven words.  A pretty simple job to read a short paragraph from the U. S. Constitution.  In Article 11, Section 1, the oath given to the President says: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will [...]
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  Posted: February 04, 2009, 6:21pm EST
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• Independent Voters Could Cause Sen. Vitter Big Problems

  —Louisiana Conservative

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  Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Washington, DC    COULD INDEPENDENT VOTERS BRING DOWN SENATOR  DAVID VITTER?  An ongoing battle within the ranks of the Louisiana Republican Party may well determine whether Louisiana US Sen. David Vitter receives his party’s nomination for the coming 2010 senatorial election. The question for the party faithful is whether or [...]
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  Posted: January 28, 2009, 5:22pm EST
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• What Happened to the Edwards Pardon?

  —Louisiana Conservative

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   Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Baton Rouge, Louisiana WHY DIDN’T PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH PARDON EDWIN EDWARDS? by Jim Brown  For months, political insiders in both Louisiana and Washington had been predicting that former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards would be pardoned by President George Bush in the final weeks of his term in office. There were a [...]
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  Posted: January 21, 2009, 9:40pm EST
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• An Incoprehensible Death in New Orleans

  —Louisiana Conservative

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  Thursday, January 15th, 2008 New Orleans, Louisiana TAKING A YOUNG LIFE IN NEW ORLEANS WHERE EVEN GOD CAN BE WRONG. Little Ja’Shawn Powell was two years old, and lived in New Orleans with his mother.  His father, a guy named Danny Platt, came to pick up Ja’Shawn for a visit last week.  The boy, [...]
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  Posted: January 14, 2009, 10:03pm EST
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• Robin Hood for the well off in Louisiana

  —Louisiana Conservative

  Thursday, January 8th, 2008 Baton Rouge, Louisiana LOUISIANA TAXPAYERS ARE  THE LOSERS IN PROPERTY INSURANCE SCHEME   In days of old, Robin Hood took from the rich and gave to the poor. When it comes to insurance, the Louisiana Legislature and the Insurance Department do just the reverse. They apparently think it is better [...]
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  Posted: January 07, 2009, 9:54pm EST
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• Perception and Bobby Jindal

  —Louisiana Conservative

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  Wednesday, December 31, 2008 Baton Rouge, Louisiana PERCEPTION AND REALITY IN LOUISIANA POLITICS In 2008, Louisiana rode the bubble.  A new Governor and a cadre of other new public officials were ready to put the Katrina mentality behind, and begin the process of bringing Louisiana fully into the 21st century.  There was a [...]
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  Posted: December 30, 2008, 10:51pm EST
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• Political Mess in Illinois

  —Louisiana Conservative

  Thursday, December 18th, 2008 Baton Rouge, Louisiana FEW SAINTS IN POLITICS NOT EVEN LINCOLN When the Governor of Illinois was arrested recently and charged with selling political favors to the highest bidder, the federal prosecutor in the case was incredulous. He stated that Abraham Lincoln” would rollover in his grave” if he were to [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2008, 7:51pm EST
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• Major Insurance Scandal in Louisiana Brewing

  —Louisiana Conservative

  Thursday, December 11th, 21008 Baton Rouge, Louisiana  LOUISIANA CITIZENS INSURANCE SCANDALS CONTINUE TO GROW A year ago, it would have been hard to imagine that conditions at Citizens Property Insurance Company could get any worse. The state created and state run company was in debt by over $1 billion.  The Rouge Business Report [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2008, 10:03pm EST
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• Big La. Healthcare Problems

  —Louisiana Conservative

  Thursday, December 3rd, 2008 Baton Rouge, Louisiana BOTTOM OF THE BARREL HEALTHWISE IN LOUISIANA  Louisiana has the dubious honor of being named this week as the least healthiest state in the nation.  The negative recognition was announced in the 2008 health rankings just released by United Health Foundation. It really wasn’t any surprise.  That’s [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2008, 12:21am EST
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• Auto Bailout-Good for Louisiana?

  —Louisiana Conservative

  Thursday, November 20th, 2008 Baton Rouge, Louisiana BIG THREE AUTO PROBLEMS HIT HOME IN LOUISIANA To bail out or not to bail out? That is the question being debated in Washington this week as the Big Three Auto Makers plead for a $25 billion bailout. Members of the Louisiana congressional delegation are either [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2008, 9:29pm EST
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