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Why the Louisiana Science Education Act Disqualifies Bobby Jindal From National Office
In his very first term in office as Louisiana Governor, Bobby Jindal signed the nation’s most absurd and most regressive “science education law” in modern America, the misnamed and misguided Louisiana Science Education Act. Ostensibly, the law is merely about introducing supplementary materials in public school classrooms in order to undermine the validity of both the fact and the scientific theory of evolution, offering impressionable school children with an alternate explanation of the nature and origins of our vastly complex universe by attempting to teach kids that the observable, repeatable, and peer-reviewed knowledge and data that the world’s brightest minds have…
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Why Louisiana Democrats Should Stand Up Instead Of Selling Out
On May 19th, The Times-Picayune and New Orleans’s WVUE Fox News 8 will receive one of the nation’s most prestigious prizes in American journalism, the Peabody Award. They are being honored, rightfully, for their collaboration on a series titled “Louisiana Purchased,” which meticulously detailed the outsized role of money in Louisiana politics and government and the ways in which elected officials and their most generous donors seemingly take advantage of large gaps in the state’s campaign finance laws. As a result of The Times-Picayune and WVUE’s exhaustive reporting, several elected officials, from both political parties, were asked to account for a litany of…
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A Confederacy of Dunces: Louisiana Legislature Advances Bill To Name The Bible “Official State Book”
In 1971, Amar and Raj, his wife, took a chance on the American Dream. Amar, an engineer, accepted a job at Louisiana State University, and although Raj, a nuclear physicist from a prominent Punjabi family, was six months pregnant at the time, they boarded a plane and resettled in Baton Rouge. There, they raised a family, two boys, both of whom they gave traditional Indian names. Their oldest was named Piyush, which means “milk,” and their youngest was named Nikesh, which roughly translates as “joy.” Although they were a world away from India and although there wasn’t a Hindu temple…
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