CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Oui On Peut: “Yes We Can”

    Today, the blogger WayDownSouth introduced America to “Oui On Peut,” a song by a group of Opelousas-based Zydeco musicians. Check it out: Quoting: Southwest Louisiana is quite a place —  it’s one of those areas that has fostered an incredible fusion of cultures.  As always when you have such amazing cross-fertilization you find those who recognize and celebrate it as well as those who deny and demean it.  I guess you can tell which camp we’re in! Barack Obama represents the country that I want my children to grow up in.  He represents an America that sees itself as part…

  • Poll Louisiana!

    Nearly a month has passed since Rasmussen released the latest poll on how the Presidential election is shaping up in Louisiana. On September 11, ARG had Louisiana up for McCain by 7 points, only to be followed, two weeks later by that Rasmussen poll, which showed McCain up by 15. Based, in large part, on these polls, FiveThirtyEight.com has McCain’s odds of winning Louisiana at 90%, but obviously, there’s a problem here: Louisiana hasn’t been polled in a long time, and during the interim, many important and incredible developments have occured– the economic crisis, the Presidential debates, and a national…

  • Dubya Waves Farewell

    Yesterday, President Bush visited Alexandria for the second time in his eight year tenure. He came here to speak, in a closed-door session, with regional business executives on our “Main Street” economy, and while he was here, he managed to bestow a volunteer award on a local educator and participate in a private meeting with the families of fallen soldiers. Obviously, it’s not every day that Alexandria plays host to a sitting United States President, and we’re not accustomed to Air Force One or Presidential motorcades. But suffice it to say, hundreds of people showed up to view the spectacle…