Up until a month ago Pearl River, LA was merely an exit sign on the freeway to Slidell. A road sign that passed by in the blink of an eye. The town hit my radar as a result of one of my wife’s friends, a young man was missing, and had been missing for a […]

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Data for graphic drawn from “A Tale of Two Disasters”, by Paul Rubin, Wall Street Journal,  June 22,2010

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In the olden days, we learned in school the folly of King Canute who sat on the seashore and ordered the tide to stop coming in, but all that happened was that he got wet.
The real story
Canute had learned that his flattering courtiers claimed he was “So great, he could command the tides […]

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I was born in New Orleans Louisiana and raised in the area so if I was not a Saints fan I would be ashamed of myself. I guess I am what you would call a die hard fan. I stick by the team like glue even in their worse times. When fans were wearing paper […]

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Today’s news that former Congressman William Jefferson, was convicted of bribery and racketeering, among other things, comes as no big surprise.  Several things are worth revisiting regarding this former “big wheeler” and the support he was given by the House  leadership.  Most people will remember the media coverage and uproar that occurred as a result of the […]

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I was born in New Orleans and lived across the lake from it most of my life. I have family all over the south eastern part of Louisiana. I have seen and heard of violence surrounding the whole area but for some reason when I got up and my husband told me he read about […]

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What does one do when they have a one night stand with a guy and then nine months later gives birth to a baby girl that you definitely do not want? Well normally I would think one would just sign the baby over for adoption.
 
Unfortunately 21 year old Cara Craig of Metairie, Louisiana found herself […]

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M.I.T. graduate Will Bradshaw is co-founder and President of Green Coast Enterprises, using innovative procedures to rebuild New Orleans homes devastated by Katrina. He is pro-life. He is voting for Barack Obama.
When Bradshaw describes himself as “pro-life,” he is speaking about an issue that goes beyond the simplistic code word that usually refers only […]

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The devastation of Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast was due to winds and tidal surge; ironically, New Orleans survived the hurricane fairly well: it main problems came a day later, when the Levees broke, stranding many for days because they decided to take temporary refuge in the city instead of leaving.
A lot of fingerpointing […]

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The people of New Orleans have learned their lesson it seems. A lot of people decided to ride the storm out when Hurricane Katrina hit them three years ago and no one quite expected the disaster it brought with it. New Orleans was practically wiped off the map. Looking at it from an aerial view […]

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Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans has announced that he has issued a mandatory evacuation beginning first with the Westbank at 8 am and then the East bank by noon Sunday.
“You need to be scared. You need to be concerned,” Nagin said Saturday at a news conference. “You need to get your butt out of […]

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Wednesday on a typical heated day in Louisiana 11 year old Devin Funck and two of his friends decided to cool off by going swimming in what people in the Kingspoint Subdivision area call Crystal Lake.
While splashing around and yelling having fun like normal kids do they noticed a well known alligator in the area […]

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I was surfing the web this morning when I ran across this news article. It caught my eye because I was born in New Orleans and raised across the lake in Slidell, La. Apparently 11 yr. old Devin Funck and two of his friends were swimming in a lake not far from where I lived for […]

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Robert Novak touched off a frenzy of speculation with his scoop that “[s]ources close to Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign are suggesting he will reveal the name of his vice presidential selection this week while Sen. Barack Obama is getting the headlines on his foreign trip.” Some of the chatter naturally focused on the identity […]

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While investigating another case officers in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, discovered 18 year old, Larry Bank’s MySpace page and on that page they found a video which has Banks, himself along with 27 year old Joshua Reilly with assault rifles including an AK-47. In the video Banks confirms that the AK-47 had bodies on it […]

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A St. John the Baptist Parish deputy near LaPlace Louisiana, just north of New Orleans, stopped a white Hyundai Sonata for a moving violation and when he searched the car with a K-9 he got a positive alert of something to watch for on the passenger side of the car.
 
The people in the car were requested […]

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It’s over! It’s finally over!
Barack Obama (D-IL) and Hillary Clinton (D-NY) split the last two primaries between them – he won MT 56 percent to 41 percent, she won SD 55 percent to 45 percent. Exit polling shows that in both states, voting blocs – white working class, older women, college educated - aligned […]

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It was over a year ago that New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin announced his plan to install CCTV cameras in high crime areas of the city. He claimed that 50 cameras would be operable within a week, and a total of 200 online by the end of the year.
Well the scheme has not worked […]

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New Jersey art dealer, George Wieschenberg of Lambertville, was sentenced to six years of prison for being a marijuana “farmer.”
According to MSNBC, Wieschenberg, pleaded guilty to “operating a marijuana production facility,” in which he grew marijuana plants, said State Attorney General Anne Milgrim.
Back in October of 2007, New Jersey State Police officers saw large marijuana […]

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Two New Orleans area cops (Jefferson Parish) are looking for new careers. In what has to be the silliest story I have read this week, the Times Picayune is reporting that 45 year old Clyde Clarke and 24 year old Desmond Ferguson are no longer on the payroll. In fact I doubt even the dubious […]

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Talk about bad timing. On Friday, Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) - who has endorsed Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) - called Fmr. Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) to make the case that dropping out of the race was in the best interests of the party. The next day, Huckabee decisively won the KS caucus (60 percent to […]

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(London, UK) The Autism Awareness Campaign UK is urging the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rt.Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of York, Rt.Rev.Dr.John Sentamu, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormack Murphy O’Connor and other senior church leaders to speak out on the suffering of some parents, carers and people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome on Autism Sunday […]

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Complete UNOFFICIAL RESULTS from Louisiana GOP Caucuses
All Seven Congressional Districts
Vote Counts for Delegates and Alternates 
hese are the results released on the Louisiana GOP website for 7 Congressional Districts.
It should be emphasized that these are the unofficial results.
But for what it’s worth, here they are.
Unofficial Results - Louisiana GOP Caucuses
Delegates
Congressional District 1 - Delegate Results
St. TammanyNew […]

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The Ron Paul Campaign Update for Sunday evening, January 27, 2008
Efforts to Ensure Accurate Delegate Count in Louisiana Continues
Re-count in New Hampshire
Paul will Campaign in Maine on Monday, January 28.
Super Tuesday Schedule with Delegate Counts
With the primary season getting ready to kick into high gear, the Ron Paul campaign is moving behind the country […]

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–Update #2 - 7:50 pm January 23, 2008 Wednesday
–Updated: 10:30 am January 23, 2008 Wednesday
Results are Promised by Party Leaders Later Today
Rumors are Circulating in Louisiana That Ron Paul Did Well
The Rumors, The Process and What is Known For Sure
complicated
adj.
1. Containing intricately combined or involved parts.
2. Not easy to understand or analyze.
3. […]

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More Cash, More Endorsements, More Delegates for Ron Paul
“Jane Roe” of Roe v. Wade Endorses Paul
More Delegates Likely in Louisiana’s Caucuses
State of the Ron Paul Campaign for Tuesday January 22, 2008
The Ron Paul campaign continues to pick up three things: money, endorsements and the scorn of pundits.
It may also looks like the Texan […]

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Thirty-five years ago today:
Thirty years before a pair of serial snipers terrorized Washington, D.C., Mark Essex prowled the streets of New Orleans with a .44-caliber Magnum rifle. During a weeklong reign of terror, he launched a series of surprise attacks against the city’s police department, its citizens, and its visitors.
Essex’s background was not unusual or […]

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What’s Going to Happen?
Nobody Knows, Everybody’s Guessing
A state of confusion and shock in the college football world?
What could be better!
After #1 Missouri and #2 West Virginia both lost last night, who’s going to be in the title game is a guess–and there are plenty of those being made right now.
Here are some of the best […]

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Counter March to Al Sharpton Planned
The Nationalist Movement will march at Jena to protest both the Jena Six and Martin Luther King. The planned march has already sparked reaction and is sure to spark even more as news of it spreads.
Al Sharpton plans to lead another march the same day to draw attention to hate […]

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Rob serves up fresh corn for today’s Lunch, filing this report from Oregon to discuss John McCain and ethanol subsidies.
Watch Now!

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