CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Bobby Jindal: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail

    Bobby Jindal: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail

    I was born in the United States immediately after my parents arrived here from India. I was raised in a strong Hindu culture, attended weekly pujas, or ceremonial rites, and read the Vedic scriptures. Though my prayers were a child’s constant stream of requests and broken promises, Hinduism provided me with moral guidance and spiritual comfort. It never occurred to me that I should consider any other religion; to be a Hindu was a part of my Indian identity. – Bobby Jindal, “Has Ecumenism Made Evangelism Irrelvant?” America, July 31, 1993 (emphasis added) My dad and mom told my brother and…

  • Steve Scalise, David Duke, And Why The Past Is Never Dead

    Steve Scalise, David Duke, And Why The Past Is Never Dead

    Before I broke the story about Congressman Steve Scalise’s attendance at a white nationalist conference hosted by David Duke’s hate group, I knew there was one enormous risk: I would likely be handing David Duke a microphone. 24 years ago, David Duke captured 55% of white voters in his bid for Louisiana Governor. A year before that, in a bid for the United States Senate, Duke received 60% of white voters. Yet today, he is considered one of the most reviled and toxic “political leaders” (I use that term loosely) in contemporary American history. It may be reassuring to think of David…

  • Conservative Media’s Excuse Falls Apart: Jefferson Heights Civic Association Never Existed

    Conservative Media’s Excuse Falls Apart: Jefferson Heights Civic Association Never Existed

    On Wednesday, Ellen Carmichael, a conservative political consultant originally from Louisiana, took to the pages of Tucker Carlson’s The Daily Caller and declared that the entire story about Congressman Steve Scalise attending a white nationalist conference was a fabrication. In an article titled “The Scalise Ordeal Shows The Media Will Bury Facts To Fit Its Narrative About Racist Southerners,” Carmichael argues, quite forcefully, that Scalise is only guilty of attending a neighborhood civic association meeting and that he is now the victim of a liberal media run amuck. Quoting: The problem was, the facts told an entirely different story than the…