CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Jindal Confuses Religious Liberty With State-Sanctioned Bigotry

    Jindal Confuses Religious Liberty With State-Sanctioned Bigotry

    Yesterday, shortly after receiving an honorary degree in front of a packed crowd at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal delivered the commencement’s keynote address. Jindal had already previewed the speech to the media. It would be an elaboration of a speech on religious liberty that he gave in February at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, and clearly, he was hoping that people would pay attention. To some, it was notable that Jindal debuted his newly adopted thesis on religious liberty at a library honoring a President who, rather famously, never went to church. President Reagan may have…

  • Jindal’s Refusal To Expand Medicaid Directly Accountable For Hundreds of Deaths

    Jindal’s Refusal To Expand Medicaid Directly Accountable For Hundreds of Deaths

    Since 1982, the State of Texas has executed 514 Americans and at least one citizen of Mexico, with hundreds more waiting on death row. Two years ago, during the Republican primary Presidential debate, news anchor Brian Williams reminded Texas Governor Rick Perry that during his years in Austin, he approved more executions of American citizens, 232, than anyone in contemporary history. The audience actually applauded Perry for his record as Chief Execution Officer, and when Williams followed up with a question about whether Governor Perry sleeps soundly at night, Perry was happy to report that he never stayed up thinking about the…

  • St. George: The Takeaway From The (Attempted) Breakaway

    Shortly before he was executed, St. George, the adopted namesake of a controversial effort to incorporate a large swath of East Baton Rouge Parish, gave his life’s fortune to the poor. While the campaign’s organizers are still holding out hope for a last-second Hail Mary pass, their patron saint is likely disinclined to provide them with any type of divine intervention. On Monday, the Mall of Louisiana and two of Baton Rouge’s biggest hospitals asked to be annexed into the City of Baton Rouge, a proposal that will certainly be embraced and quickly adopted by the Metro Council and Mayor-President Kip Holden. St.…