CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Edward Moore Kennedy

    Exactly one year before he died: On my drive up from New Orleans this morning, I was thinking about health care and how meaningful it would be if Senator Kennedy could live to see the passage of health care reform. I didn’t know he had already passed away. This is a sad day for America and for the State of Louisiana, whose native daughter Vicki lost her husband yesterday. I wasn’t in the room when Ted Kennedy delivered his speech at last year’s DNC; I was camped out in the blogger’s tent, watching the entire event with bloggers and journalists…

  • Socialism Around Us…EVERYWHERE!!!!!! (gasp!)

    I’ve been thinking of writing something very similar to this for the past month or so, but ran across this piece in the Shreveport Times today. The author, Jared Clemons, says it as well as I ever could… Socialism is bad. And as Elmer Fudd would advise, we need be “vewy vewy quiet” when speaking of something as truly heinous as socialism. But I’ve always had a penchant for being taboo, so I will have to respectfully go against Mr. Fudd’s recommendation. So what is socialism? According to Merriam-Webster, socialism is defined as “any of various economic and political theories…

  • Prepping for Rising Tide IV

    In preparation for my appearance on Rising Tide’s politics panel this weekend, I’ve been doing some homework on our friends and neighbors down in New Orleans. Here’s what I’ve discovered: Sources tell me that New Orleanians are set to elect a new Mayor early next year. I don’t have any early favorites, but like Blake at Humid Haney, I have been following the campaign of James Perry.  It is encouraging and interesting to see a candidate so engaged and focused so early on, and it’s also interesting that Mr. Perry seems to be the only candidate, thus far, that fully…