Author: Lynn McMorris
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Everyone Cares. Who Will Show Up?
New Roads, Louisiana packed its veterans’ memorial service on Veterans Day. A few miles away, volunteers quietly built a wheelchair ramp. Everyone cares. Who shows up? On Veterans Day, Pointe Coupee packed its veterans memorial. A few miles away, a small Baton Rouge nonprofit was…
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Old Iron. Fresh Pecans.
By Lynn McMorris If you wanted to know how to crack a tough nut back in 1937, all you had to do was ask Leo J. Meyer of San Antonio, Texas. On the last day of that year, he filed a patent for a nut-cracking…
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The Blue Wave Stopped At The Levee.
Too many of Louisiana’s faithful swear devotion to God, then vote like they just dragged themselves off a redneck dive-bar floor, with help from an equally wobbly stool, the morning after the monthly KKK meeting. The pickup they drive to the polls has a Choose…
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Landry Lost the Vote. Now the Schools Pay for It.
Governor Jeff Landry’s fight over teacher pay and school funding says more about his character and temperament than his budget skills. Faced with a problem he helped create, he hasn’t led, he’s bullied.
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Platner for Veep: A Maine Democrat Could complete the GOP’s 2028 Sleaze Ticket
JD Vance or Marco Rubio will top the GOP’s 2028 ticket. What it’s missing is Trump‑grade sleaze, and that’s where Maine Democrat Graham Platner comes in.
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WHAT DROPPED INTO THE TRAY?
Bill Cassidy threw a tantrum on the Senate floor, got a private audience at the White House, and reversed his vote by midnight. He’s been very upfront about asking for the meeting. He’s been a lot less upfront about what he got out of it.…
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A Plea for Dignity, Guest Submission by Paige the African Elephant
Some of you may have heard about the unfortunate incident at the Texas GOP convention, resulting in a major cleanup near the stage. Many have seen the video, Like most of you, I assumed I had heard the whole story. I had not. What follows…
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Weights and Measures: Of Mules and Men
In America, scales decide who gets to fight, who gets to watch, and who sits it out. The only ones using them for something sane are the mules.
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The Betrayal of Children
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…
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Soup, a Nap, and a Graceful Exit. Please.
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…
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Boosie Badazz, American Mentor
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…
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Tough Times at MAGA High
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…
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For Meta, Our Failings Are A Feature, Not A Bug
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…
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There Is No Separate Hill
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.
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Mid-Sentence
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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Hate Will Not Make Us Great
On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk was murdered at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. The actions of the murderer cannot be justified, just as the hateful ideology he spread in life was unjustifiable. I despised his words, his cruelty, his ceaseless attempts to divide…
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Joe Biden Pardons His Son
Written 12/2/2024 by Lynn McMorris Hunter Biden’s story is not a political story. It is a human one. He is a man who spent years drowning in addiction, a disease that does not discriminate by last name or zip code or political affiliation. It takes…
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The Day After Super Tuesday
Written 3/5/2020 A few thoughts on yesterday’s Super Tuesday results. Voters are throwing their support to the candidate they believe is most likely to beat Trump, placing less weight on their actual platform. In the eyes of many, Joe is the safe bet. They seem…
