Wednesday's Blogs from the Bog!

WAPO JUST CALLED JINDAL A LIAR!

JUL 14 This story in the Washington Post takes a look at Bobby Jindal's "nonsense on a stick" plan to charge a fee, give a tax cut, whatever the heck that bogus college tax thing was. The headline calls it "false," and it's all downhill from there, to a three Pinocchio classification. Wups!
DEBERRY: DON'T TRASH THOSE STATUES

JUL 15 Columnist Jarvis DeBerry writes here about the discussion ongoing in NOLA about the most prominent Confederate tribute statues in the city. The Mayor and others want them down, and DeBerry agrees, but he doesn't think the statues should be warehoused. Instead, they need to be placed where they can be discussed, or enjoyed by those who love them, he says. Slavery and the Civil War are not topics we can erase, he adds.
ZOMBIE ON THE MONUMENTS

JUL 15 Blogger Jason Brad Berry is blogging about the discussion instigated by NOLA Mayor Mitch Landrieu's plan to take down some of the Confederate monuments in the city. Mostly, he'd like to know why Mitch is worried about these monuments when just a few weeks ago he named streets after a couple of anti-gay preachers. Hey - that's a good question.
GILL: 'DIM' SUPREMES ON GAY MARRIAGE

JUL 15 Columnist James Gill writes here about the (unbelievable) comments made by some members of our state Supreme Court, casting aspersions on their superiors in the U.S. Supreme Court who had the audacity to rule that gay Americans have rights like any other Americans. Spoiler alert: Gill ain't a fan.
AMBITION IS JINDAL'S DOWNFALL

JUL 14 The New York Times posts this column from Bloomberg about the walking contradiction that Bobby Jindal is - and the national press seems to love to analyze. Just a few years ago, Bobby was promise itself, and now he's a joke of an also-ran, a pandering, desperate, grasping politician. It's easily explainable, Al Hunt writes here, with one word: Ambition.
NOLA POPULATION, 10 YEARS LATER

JUL 15 The NOLA Defender blog takes a look at New Orleans population numbers, as we approach the 10 year anniversary of Katrina. The city is showing signs of bouncing back, the story tells us.