CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Lee Fletcher: “Vitter (Has) Solid Re-elect Numbers at Well Over 60%”

    In the parallel universe of Lee Fletcher and his Town Hall Show, Senator David Vitter is making the people of Louisiana proud by doing what we elected him to do. Fletcher informs us: He (Vitter) has support from all over Louisiana for his re-elect and is continuing to do the job he was elected to do. In one recent poll conducted in another senate race, Senator Vitter had solid re-elect numbers at well over 60%. His numbers increase significantly when specific issues like cutting taxes, support for our military, Vitter’s strong pro life stance and his strong stand against illegal…

  • Part Five: How Can Non-Profits Help “Save Tibet”?

    In the 1990s, there was a great increase in the number of international Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) working in China, on everything from rural education and environmental protection to civil legal reform and socially-responsible small business development. My first experience with Chinese NGOs was interning with Handicap International in Beijing in 2003, teaching basic English to patients at a psychiatric hospital and editing English-language correspondences for the Chinese office staff. At the time, they were also working on sign language for deaf Tibetans. Handicap International was typical of international NGOs and non-profit groups in China at the time, in that the…

  • Neil Kavanagh and Fuzzy Numbers

    (I know I said we would be exclusively publishing on the subject of Tibet until tomorrow night, so please excuse and forgive this brief interruption). Neil Kavanagh of The Northside Journal, a semi-regular blog/ weekly (?) that focuses on the issues of north Rapides Parish, recently published an editorial accusing Alexandria Mayor Jacques Roy of using misleading and inaccurate numbers to somehow trick the people of Rapides Parish into increasing the City of Alexandria’s tax allocation. For those of you not familiar with the inside baseball, Buck Lincecum of the Rapides Parish Police Jury is proposing to change the way…