CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Aints No More

    Last night, New Orleans felt like the center of the universe. I watched the game in a friend’s house in Uptown and afterward had to make my way back to my hotel room at the end of Poydras. We sat in traffic in front of the Superdome for twenty minutes. I’ve never seen anything like it before, and I doubt I’ll ever see anything like it again. I was there when the Braves beat the Indians in Atlanta in 1995, and believe me, Atlanta went crazy… but not nearly as crazy and ebullient and joyous as New Orleans was on…

  • To Our Friends in New Orleans

    It looks like those of us in Central Louisiana may be jumping aboard your ongoing battle against the Army Corps of Engineers and FEMA. From The Town Talk: Many homeowners in Alexandria, Pineville and throughout Rapides Parish could be staring at mandatory flood insurance with an annual premium costing as much as $5,000. …. Joe Sloan, an insurance specialist with the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Flood Insurance Program, told a gathering of more than 100 local residents, business leaders and elected officials of potential upcoming “insurance ramifications” after FEMA de-accredited the north, south and eastbank levees along the Red…

  • James O’Keefe, of PimpGate/Louisiana Watergate Fame, May Not Be The Best Person For Conservatives To Champion

    Yes, yes, I know: I’m stating the obvious. But in light of what Breitbart and Ben Stein and others have said about the young Mr. O’Keefe (who, for those of who don’t know, was arrested with three other men for allegedly attempting to tamper with Senator Mary Landrieu’s phone lines) and considering how Chad Rogers of The Dead Pelican has dedicated a lot of precious space on his website aggregating stories defending Mr. O’Keefe, it’s probably appropriate to discover what, exactly, Mr. O’Keefe was up to prior to his sudden rise to fame. Is this just another folly of youth?…