Truth With A Little Mud On It

Five physicians were physically ejected and threatened with arrest from a medical conference in New Orleans for handing out a journal article critical of cuts to NIH research. The NIH director who was supposed to give the keynote address, fled before he had to face an audience who may not have been receptive to his message. Our children are among those being betrayed by NIH cuts.

The Betrayal of Children

Fifteen of the twenty four oldest members of Congress are Democrats. For a party that calls itself the future, that is a losing record, and it is long past time to get out of its own way. The Democratic Party is in the fight of…

Soup, a Nap, and a Graceful Exit. Please.

Baton Rouge’s own Boosie Badazz is in trouble again. Houston trouble this time. Hookah trouble, specifically. According to authorities, the rapper, born Torrence Hatch Jr., known professionally as Boosie Badazz, known to the Harris County justice system as a defendant, allegedly struck a security guard in the head with a glass hookah at a Houston nightclub. He now faces assault charges.

Boosie Badazz, American Mentor

Bob Cornyn and Bill Cassidy woke up, tired and anxious, after having the same dream last night. They were both back in high school. MAGA High School. A place they used to love. They were never big men on campus but they were big men adjacent, and that was good enough for them.

Tough Times at MAGA High

How Louisiana keeps selling itself to industry and calling it progress. I never met Joyce Piercy. I found her in a Fortune magazine story by Sharon Goldman, published this past March, tucked into the middle of a long piece about what a $27 billion data…

For Meta, Our Failings Are A Feature, Not A Bug

A Louisiana senator hurled a racial slur at a Democratic official. What followed was a press release. In the comments, a conversation broke out that I haven’t been able to shake. This is my answer.

There Is No Separate Hill

Written 05/26/2026 by Lynn McMorris Memorial Day is a reminder of the debt we owe to those who gave all. Something we should ponder more than once a year. The families I came to know while writing this article years ago touched me deeply and…

Memorial Day 2026

He reminded me of a little banty rooster. Elderly, feisty, alert, coherently answering my questions as I worked through my assessment. HIPAA prevents me from providing details, but I can share that, in my EMT-Paramedic years, I provided care for one of Huey P. Long’s…

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