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Sept. 2, 2010

A Week of Horror on the Gulf Coast!

FIVE YEARS AFTER KATRINA — IS ANYTHING DIFFERENT? Everyone who was touched by Hurricane Katrina has a vivid story to tell. All the more so as the Gulf coast looks five years back. Levees collapsing, inadequate evacuation efforts and political bickering have been reviewed on the news nightly, and highlighted by the new Spike Lee [...]

HARD LESSONS LEARNED FROM HURRICANE!

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 New Orleans, Louisiana FIVE YEARS AFTER KATRINA — IS ANYTHING DIFFERENT? With the five year anniversary of Katrina being commemorated this week, and a major hurricane moving up the east coast, the focus of the national news media has been how government at all levels fails to respond. Levees collapsing, inadequate evacuation efforts [...]

Exiting Iraq

This Special Place-New Orleans.

My column this week reflects on memories from Hurricane Katrina five years ago this week. Many readers of this blog live worldwide. Did you know that 16% of all my viewer hits come from China? So for those of you who have never been to Louisiana, and especially New Orleans, you have missed a special [...]

Two New Miss. Radio Stations

When it comes to radio in Mississippi, the dean of broadcasters is Charlie Holt from Hattiesburg. Charlie (pictured with me above) has been in the radio business for over 50 years. In addition, he has been active in Mississippi politics, and has been a close adviser to four different state governors, as well as several [...]

Huey Long-Millionaire

Federal Prosecutors Gone Wild?

The score right now stands at former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich 23, federal prosecutors 1. The feds charged Blagojevich with everything but the kitchen sink, including shaking down a children’s hospital and selling the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by President Obama. With twenty-four felony counts against him, and after all the melodrama and [...]

Prosecutors Gone Wild!

Thursday, August 26th, 2010 Baton Rouge, Louisiana BLOWHARD PROSECUTORS VS BLOWHARD BLAGOJEVICH WHO’S GUILTY! The score right now stands at former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich 23, federal prosecutors 1. The feds charged Blagojevich with everything but the kitchen sink, including shaking down a children’s hospital and selling the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by President Obama. With twenty-four felony [...]

Jay Leno to the Gulf Coast

Jay Leno is about as good a stand up comedian as I have ever seen. I watch his monologue which generally are funny. But I was with him in person when he performed on the Mississippi Gulf Coast for a fund raiser last week. He brought down the house in an hour and a half performance that [...]

Gulf oil spill-Difference between La. and Miss.

I was on the Mississippi Gulf Coast this past weekend as part of a Gulf oil relief concert. The video below let’s me give you my thoughts of how Mississippi and Louisiana are handling the oil spill problems differently. Mississippi is saying “Come on down,” while Louisiana keeps hollering about the damage. Take a lot [...]

Cajun Music Time in Louisiana

With fall fast approaching, it means football, boiled seafood, numerous fairs and festivals, and good Cajun music. A south Louisiana standard down her is Mary Chapin Carpenter’s “Down at the Twist and Shout.” Take a look at her video below. And note the fiddle player. His name is Michael Doucet and he is probably the [...]

Obama’Muslim

Supreme Court not working!

Blago 23, Prosecutors 1

August 26, 2010

Mike for Prez video

Pandering and Hypocrisy over a Mosque!

The political pyromaniacs are on the loose in the nation’s capitol, with both parties pandering to their respective bases. Little concern for a large pile of national problems-the economy, healthcare, Afghanistan, Iraq, job creation. . All the rhetoric from both parties seems to be exclusively focused on the “ground Zero mosque.” Is the controversy really [...]