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Steve Scalise and Why the Cover-Up is Always Worse
Days after Congressman Steve Scalise, the third most powerful member of the U.S. House of Representatives, admitted that in 2002 he attended and addressed a white nationalist conference, Kenny Knight, the former campaign manager for David Duke and one of the event’s organizers, claimed that Scalise had actually attended a neighborhood association meeting. But that story doesn’t add up, and neither does Scalise’s excuse for showing up in the first place. Rep. Scalise knew exactly what he was doing when he decided to address the conference, and despite his apparent amnesia on the subject, it had nothing to do with a…
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House Majority Whip Steve Scalise Was Reportedly an Honored Guest at 2002 International White Supremacist Convention
According to recently uncovered posts on Stormfront, the Internet’s oldest and most notorious white nationalist and neo-Nazi forum, the United States House Majority Whip, Steve Scalise (R- Louisiana), was allegedly an honored guest and speaker at an international conference of white supremacist leaders. His district may have ignored it at the time, but the American public can’t. Twelve years ago last May, the spacious but plainly appointed conference rooms of the Landmark Best Western Hotel in Metairie, Louisiana, a 16-story, drably-colored octagon-shaped tower that juts into an empty skyline and hugs Interstate 10 so tightly that it serves, in a way, as…
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CenLamar’s Top Ten Movies of 2014
In order to determine the top ten movies of 2014, CenLamar polled its writers, and since I am its only writer, the process and the tabulation took all of a second. Because I live alone and because there is an art house cinema a mile away from my house and two other cinemas that serve dinner and drinks only a few blocks north, I spent an inordinate amount of the time at the movies this year. So, forgive me in advance for the hyperbole, and please note that, although I’ve seen well over 100 movies this year, I still haven’t…
CenLamar | Est. 2006
