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Red River Parish Port site gets LED certified

The Red River Parish Port Commission announces the Red River Parish Port site has been awarded the prestigious LED Certified Industrial Site designation by Louisiana Economic Development (LED).

State senator working on anti-Semitism law for 2025

Louisiana State Senator Valarie Hodges said last that she is working on legislation for the 2025 regular session that will include a definition of antisemitism with respect to the growing violence on college campuses.During the 2024 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature, Sen. Hodges authored...

Serve your country, then get swiftboated?

Well here they go again. Political extremists who work behind the scenes in both national political parties have dusted off their old playbook by attacking the military record of both vice presidential candidates. Such attacks even have a name.

Democrats lied about Joe Biden’s condition and got caught

Democrats lied about Biden and got caught They didn’t soulfully consider President Joe Biden’s marked decline and decide, for the good of him, his party and the country, that he had to step down.They lied, and they got caught.The Democratic Party line on Biden was that he had turned in an...

THE COUNTRY WRITER

A Southern Writer’s View of Then and NowAs a child growing up in Ashdown, Arkansas, we had two main grocery stores. Shur-Way and Piggly Wiggly. Or as my dad called it, “Hoggly Woggly.”

Basement campaign updated to Harris teleprompter campaign

The basement campaign has been updated. Kamala Harris isn’t in the cellar of the Naval Observatory campaigning via Zoom calls a la Joe Biden in 2020.No, she’s speaking to adoring crowds fired up by pop stars. She’s identifying herself with the latest trends (she’s “brat’” now).

The Painter

From 1948 until 1953, David was the president of Columbia University in New York City. During his tenure as president of the university, David hired an artist, Thomas Stephens, to paint a portrait of his wife. As the painter worked, David, who had no previous interest in painting, became spellbound.

Is our history a tale of the nightmarish scheming of shadowy forces?

Sorry, everyone — Oswald still acted alone All we need to know about the Deep State, we supposedly learned when John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.In the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, Sean Davis of the conservative website The Federalist wrote on X, “They did it to...