The governor wannabe reaches lazily for the low-hanging fruit, promising to drug test welfare recipients — a policy that stigmatizes the poor, wastes taxpayer money and produces negligible results ...
Jindal once again repeated the lie that he cut the Louisiana state budget by 26 percent — and laid off 30,000 "bureaucrats" while governor. Nothing could be further from the truth ...
This statewide elected official believes proposals in favor of automatic voter registration, which are currently being debuted in Oregon, amount to nothing more than a manipulative way of ensuring an illegal attempt among African-American Democrats ...
For students at Lafayette Middle School — a low-rated, “inner-city” school with a majority low-income/black student body, many from single-parent households — the start of the school year was also an opportunity to begin the day with examples ...
We need to face up to how the “new New Orleans,” so celebrated by the Mayor and the self-anointed civic elite, in fact amounts to a hostile assault on African-American families and the working poor ...