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AUG 24 The Picayune offers Steve Gleason's thoughts on New Orleans, the upcoming anniversary and his own life journey. He's not from the city originally, but seems to have an understanding of it that many who live there lack.
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GRACE: JINDAL'S EDUCATION PLATFORM NOT SPECIAL
AUG 24 Columnist Stephanie Grace examines Bobby Jindal's education chops vis-a-vis his presidential campaign. It's one of his main talking points, but his experience is just not that special, she says.
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LOUISIANA NEAR THE BOTTOM IN THIS RANKING
AUG 24 We usually don't end up near the bottom of bad lists, but this time we did, blogger Tom Aswell says. It's a ranking of Ashley Madison users per capita, and Louisiana is in the bottom ten, Aswell says.
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BEAM: VITTER'S PAST BACK IN THE NEWS
AUG 24 David Vitter may have hoped that his past admitted "serious sin" (i.e. his ties to DC hookers) had been forgiven and forgotten, but he can't really have believed it. Columnist Jim Beam discusses how this history is coming up again and again as Vitter runs for Governor.
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AUG 24 When a liar says a liar is lying, what does that mean? This post on the National Review features Scott Walker disputing some of the things Bobby Jindal has said about him. Good luck working it out -- assuming you care. Judging from the polls, if you do care you're in the (extreme) minority.
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IF IT WALKS LIKE A TAX, AND IT QUACKS LIKE A TAX...
AUG 21 CB Forgotston comments here upon some recent developments involving one of the tax increases that came out of the last legislative session. First, it is a tax increase, regardless of what Bobby Jindal and Gov. Norquist say, Forgotston says.
Monday's Blogs from the Bog!
Read Steve Gleason's love letter to New Orleans. Also today, Aswell says we're at the bottom - for once - of a bad list, and Walker says Bobby's a liar. (What, exactly, does that mean?)