Skip to contentHomeAbout CenLamarDonateFifth Circuit Strikes Down Mississippi’s Abortion Law. What It Means In Louisiana.Yesterday, a three judge panel (voting two to one) of the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down as unconstitutional Mississippi's controversial law requiring that physicians who perform abortions maintain admitting privileges in...Read moreBINGO! How One Louisiana Private School Has Made A Fortune From Inner-City Video BingoOn Tuesday, the City Council of Alexandria, Louisiana voted unanimously (with one noticeable abstention) to lift its moratorium on video bingo parlors for the next 120 days. The moratorium was first championed more than six...Read moreAn Exclusive Interview With Governor Edwin EdwardsLast Thursday, I drove down to Baton Rouge to interview the Cajun Prince, the Silver Fox, former four-term Louisiana Governor, former Louisiana State Supreme Court Justice, former United States Congressman, former federal inmate #03128-095, former reality...Read moreDrunk On MoonshineWhen Bobby Jindal campaigned for Governor in 2007, he railed against cronyism and corruption and promised to implement a new era of fair, honest, and transparent government. His campaign produced and aired a thirty-second television...Read moreEveryone Is Wrong About Austin Badon’s Bill Requiring Brain-Dead Pregnant Women To Be On Life Support, Including Austin BadonDuring the last few weeks, more than a couple of barrels of ink have been spilled about Louisiana State Representative Austin Badon's (D- New Orleans) HB 1274, a bill ostensibly intended to require mechanical life...Read moreHow Bobby Jindal’s Con-Profit and David Vitter’s Super PAC Undermine DemocracyFour years ago, an otherwise dull case concerning a pay-per-view documentary about the former and future Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton provided a divided United States Supreme Court with the opportunity to issue its most consequential...Read moreThe Single Question That Could Destroy Bobby Jindal’s Political FutureLast Friday, against the vehement and public urging of his own Attorney General and nearly one hundred of the nation's most respected legal experts, Governor Bobby Jindal signed Senate Bill 469 into law. Quoting his press...Read moreIf You Care About Louisiana, This Should Make You Livid"A lot of people mentioned to me how omnipresent BP lobbyists were, more than the other major oil companies were (though all of them showed plenty of interest), so much more that it got a lot...Read moreA Note on Religious Liberty and State-Sanctioned BigotryIn 1967, in a landmark decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the State of Virginia's anti-miscegenation law as unconstitutional. Loving v. Virginia (known, poetically and appropriately, as simply Loving) is hailed as one of...Read moreJindal Confuses Religious Liberty With State-Sanctioned BigotryYesterday, shortly after receiving an honorary degree in front o