CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • National Republican Senatorial Committee Lies About Senator Landrieu’s Stance on Internet Tax

    Last week, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) created a poorly-produced advertisement targeting Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu in an attempt to question her vote against placing a permanent ban on taxing Internet commerce. Although Senator Landrieu is in favor of instituting a 7-year moratorium on any taxation of Internet commerce (Landrieu is even willing to extend to moratorium to up to 10 years), hardcore Republicans (and their easily-duped flock) have attempted to suggest that Landrieu’s position somehow constituted a vote in favor of Internet taxation. When the Senator responded, the mainstream media accused her of being “irritated,” and perhaps this…

  • The Hurricanes and the California Wildfires

    H/t to People Get Ready for producing this table, which was culled from this article in The Times-Picayune: Hurricanes Katrina & Rita California Wildfires In New Orleans alone, 140 of 180 square miles flooded, — rendering uninhabitable a residential zone seven times the size of Manhattan. Across the region, its winds and rains wreaked havoc to a 90,000-square-mile swath of the Gulf Coast, an area twice the size of the entire state of New York. The California fires had burned about a half-million acres, an area twice the size of New York City. Much of the burned area was forest.…

  • A Message to Local Republicans

    Recently, a couple of bloggers over at Cenla Antics, a blog created by Quint Carriere, the Fundraising Chair of Cenla GoPAC (a local political action committee dedicated to electing Republican candidates), have criticized our decision to provide election analysis and candidate endorsements. Needless to say, the folks at Cenla Antics and I have a history with one another. A year and a half ago, I wrote a letter to The Town Talk about Cenla Antics. At the time, Cenla Antics was not exactly well-known, yet it frequently received as many as fifty new comments every day. And for someone who…