CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • My Predictions

    Update: I somehow had South Dakota listed in the Obama column. Ooops. I fixed it. I don’t blame the well-paid political pundits or the well-regarded statisticians, but only five days remaining, Presidential campaigns will no longer be marketing to those elusive undecided voters. At this point,  this now is a ground game. Here is my projection, and though, I may be wrong on a couple of states, President Barack Obama maintains clear path for  re-election: Although in this model, if Obama won Florida and/or Ohio, he’d still win, which means Romney could only win by capturing practically every other swing state. And look,…

  • Louisiana Education Superintendent Spends $145,000/Year On California-Based “Motivational Speaker” To Promote Privatization

    Just in case you required any additional evidence that Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and State Superintendent of Education John White are attempting to implement a large-scale privatization of the state’s public education system, consider this: Earlier this month, it was revealed that Superintendent White is paying Doug “Lefty” Lefkowith, a California-based, self-identified “motivational speaker,” $145,000 a year to serve as a “Director of Content” in the Louisiana Department of Education. To be sure, Lefkowith’s actual title remains somewhat ambiguous, but his record is pretty straightforward. Thanks, in large part, to the yeomen’s effort of Tom Aswell at the Louisiana Voice, we…

  • Louisiana Voucher Program Props Up Propaganda, Funds Fundamentalists

    This Thursday, the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) will meet to discuss the “criteria for school participation in the Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence Programs (sic),” more commonly known as the Louisiana voucher program. At this point, it should be abundantly clear to anyone paying attention that Louisiana’s school voucher program, a program that had been touted a few months ago by The Wall Street Journal as Governor Bobby Jindal’s “moon shot,” is already an epic failure, a grand and almost comical embarrassment, and one of the best examples of government incompetence and dereliction in modern Louisiana history,…