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Monday, April 25, 2016

Giving in is the same thing as giving up

Let me explain. If you are like me, you probably find yourself saying “no” more often these days than usual. “No” to continued deficit spending by the federal government, “no” to government-run health care, “no” to higher and higher taxes from Baton Rouge, “no” to illegal immigration or sanctuary cities … the list seemingly goes on and on.
Columns/Opinions
Monday, March 28, 2016
And on the day before the Normandy invasion, D-Day, General George S. Patton Jr. told the soldiers of the U.S. Third Army on June 5, 1944, “We’ll win this war, but we’ll win it only by fighting and by showing the Germans that we’ve got more guts than they have; or ever will have.
Columns/Opinions
Monday, March 14, 2016

The consequences of elections

Unfortunately, though, it is the unborn that have continued to lose. Even as the number of abortions are continuing to drop nationwide – 31,000 fewer abortions last year – and while 53 abortion clinics closed in 2015 alone, black children are still being aborted at five times the rate of white children.
Columns/Opinions
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
But that doesn’t keep us from trying, though, does it? In fact, spending is soaring – consumer credit card debt is $712 billion – that’s $15,355 per household. And our U.S. government has a budget deficit this year of $616 billion. Our country has spent, and now owes $19.
Columns/Opinions
Monday, Feb. 15, 2016

For the candidates, it’s all in the storytelling

Many fictional writers say if you leave these key characters out of your story you will risk losing your audience, altogether.
Columns/Opinions
Monday, Feb. 1, 2016
He’s just a showman, they say. He’s been called an entertainer, and criticized as not being a politician. He’s not spent any time volunteering for political campaigns, walking neighborhoods, door-to-door or spent much time at all in Washington, D.C. or pandering to the political class or establishment politics.
Columns/Opinions
Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015
When Washington begin talking about increasing the number of Syrian refugees in our country by over 250 percent from last year, or raising that number next year to as many as 100,000, many Americans wonder how we will be able to afford spending as much as $1.
Columns/Opinions
Monday, Nov. 9, 2015
Can we talk for a minute? It’s about this governor’s race. Now, please understand, I’m the first one in line to expect a higher standard from myself, as well as from those whom we cast our ballots to lead our cities, represent us in Baton Rouge, and make our nation’s laws in Washington.

ON STANDS NOW!

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