Tuesday's Blogs from the Bog!
Tuesday's Blogs from the Bog!
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BOBBY HEADED BACK HOME TO IOWA
AUG 5 As soon as he's done telling people in Texas what to do about all those terrible, horrible six-year-olds who keep coming across the border to take our jobs (good thing they're not anchor babies - like a certain governor born in America while his parents were still immigrants with green cards) Bobby Jindal is headed to the place he seems to enjoy a lot more than Louisiana: Iowa. Here's his schedule in an Iowa newspaper.
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MANN: FILLING OUR PRISONS DOESN'T MAKE US SAFER
AUG 5 Blogger Robert Mann points out an inconvenient truth in this post: the idea that throwing people in prison makes the rest of us safer is bogus - at least in Louisiana. We're better than anybody on the planet at putting people in jail, and yet we have the highest murder rate, the highest gun death rate and the seventh highest crime rate, he says. Clearly, the theory is flawed.
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CLANCY ON OUR "BEDROCK" PROBLEM
AUG 5 Columnist Clancy DuBos examines the recent Kids Count data release in this post, within the context of what government can/should/can't do about the basic problem for children in Louisiana - poverty. How much should government be doing to solve this problem?
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AUG 5 Legendary NOLA performer Dr. John had to cancel a couple of east coast gigs after he was hospitalized for the flu, this post on NOLA Defender tells us.
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ALABAMA HOSPITAL PRIVILEGES LAW GOES DOWN
AUG 5 The Alabama law that tries to outlaw abortion by requiring hospital privileges of clinic doctors has been struck down, this post on the Mobile Press-Register tells us. This law, which mirrors a Mississippi law already struck down and laws passed in Louisiana and Texas, is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled.
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PARENTS JOIN LAWSUIT VS BESE, WHITE
AUG 5 Some parents have joined the bi-partisan group of legislators who filed suit against BESE and state Superintendent John White over the approval and implementation of Common Core, this post on LaPolitics tells us. The suit claims the curriculum change should have been advertised, and public comment invited. BESE's response? We're not required to do that. Great.
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JUDGE: JENKINS CAN'T SUE OVER ANNEXATIONS
AUG 5 Here's the latest in the secession effort over in Baton Rouge, from WAFB. After the mall and a hospital asked to be annexed into the city to avoid being the funding mechanisms for the lily-white "City of St. George," Woody Jenkins filed suit to stop the annexation - arguing it would slow police response times in the inner city. The judge threw out his challenge.