CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • “I’ve seen today proof that the scholarship program that (Gov. Bobby Jindal) put into place is working.” – U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor, After Touring F-Ranked Voucher School in Louisiana

    He talks about it everywhere he goes: On the campaign trail in Virginia, in fundraisers in Florida, California, South Carolina, Arizona, New Hampshire, Iowa, Missouri, and Michigan, or on Politico and Fox News. Governor Jindal wants Americans to know that his expansion of Louisiana’s school voucher program, the largest of its kind in our nation’s history, has been a huge success. Last month, in response to the Department of Justice’s litigation requiring Louisiana’s voucher program to properly ensure adherence to long-standing federal court orders on desegregation, Governor Jindal feigned outrage and implied, in not so many words, that Attorney General Eric Holder and…

  • Bobby Jindal’s Greatest Success Is An Epic Disaster

    Bobby Jindal’s Greatest Success Is An Epic Disaster

    He talks about it everywhere he goes: On the campaign trail in Virginia, in fundraisers in Florida, California, South Carolina, Arizona, New Hampshire, Iowa, Missouri, and Michigan, or on Politico and Fox News. Governor Jindal wants Americans to know that his expansion of Louisiana’s school voucher program, the largest of its kind in our nation’s history, has been a huge success. Last month, in response to the Department of Justice’s litigation requiring Louisiana’s voucher program to properly ensure adherence to long-standing federal court orders on desegregation, Governor Jindal feigned outrage and implied, in not so many words, that Attorney General Eric Holder and…

  • Why Pope Francis’ Exhortation Should Resonate In Louisiana

    I. Fifty-three years ago, John F. Kennedy stood before an audience in Houston, Texas and delivered, what was at the time, the single most important speech of his political career. It wasn’t about civil rights or national security or foreign policy, and it wasn’t about putting a man on the moon (that speech was also delivered in Houston, two years later). His speech was about his religion, Roman Catholicism. Kennedy was only the second Catholic in American history to become the Presidential nominee of a major political party. (Al Smith, who lost to Herbert Hoover in 1928, was the first,…