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Wednesday's Blogs from the Bog!
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OCT 15 The Guardian, a UK newspaper, produces its own Louisiana coastal loss story here. Louisiana "is losing land to the sea faster than anywhere else in the world," Suzanne Goldenberg writes. It doesn't get much plainer than that.
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YEAH, CLANCY: THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN
OCT 15 Big Oil should settle the coastal restoration lawsuit, Clancy DuBos opines in this post on Gambit. He's taking a look at the setbacks Big Oil has had in the recent past in connection with the lawsuit, including a court ruling and some developments at the Levee Board.
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BEJEAUX: SHOULD WE DUMP THIS TWO-PARTY SYSTEM?
OCT 15 Blogger Nick BeJeaux takes a look at the two-party political system we have here in the US of A, and laments the problems it causes. Given the gridlock we're seeing, does it make sense to try something else?
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OCT 15 CB Forgotston thinks the Legislature may have made itself irrelevant. In this post, CB is talking about how our fearless leaders talk out of both sides of their mouths - they complain about the power of the governor, but they don't want any power for themselves. Our system of government is based on checks and balances, and we don't seem to have any, CB says.
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HOLD ON - IS BOBBY SAYING WE SHOULD SPEND ON SCIENCE?
OCT 15 Sure, when we're talking about shaping young minds (not our own kids' minds, but other minds) then science isn't a big deal. But start talking about foreigners and deadly viruses and all of a sudden we want that science! In this post on Politico, Bobby Jindal is whining about Hillary Clinton, wups, CDC spending on Ebola. (He seems a little fixated on Hillary. Maybe he should just break down and ask her for a date.)
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OCT 15 This post on the Picayune gives candidate Edwin Edwards' responses to a survey the paper sent out to Congressional candidates. His responses sound like vintage EWE; pragmatic and definitely Democratic.
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OCT 15 David Vitter may be running for governor, but he hasn't forgotten about his work in DC, Jeremy Alford opines in this post on LaPolitics. Vitter's politicking for a committee chair, assuming the GOP takes control of the Senate.
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DREHER FRETTING OVER GAY STATEMENTS
OCT 15 Blogger Rod Dreher talks a lot about gay people, especially for a straight guy. He's talking about them again in this post, distraught over the signals from the Vatican this week that Pope Francis might be taking a more Christian, er, liberal view of homosexuality.