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Louisiana University Cancels Classes After Two Fatal Shootings Within a Week

Louisiana University Cancels Classes After Two Fatal Shootings Within a Week

Rick Gallot, the president of Grambling State University in Grambling, Louisiana, announced that the university would cancel classes and impose…

3 years ago

WATCH: Jake Tapper Left Speechless By The Stupidity Of Sen. John Kennedy’s Anti-Gun Control Argument

After playing a clip of the comments, CNN's Jake Tapper remarked, "I don’t even know what to say to that,…

4 years ago

Republican Senator Blames 1 or 2 People Drinking Too Much For Coronavirus Spread In Louisiana

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) blamed the spread of coronavirus in Louisiana on one or two people weakening their immune systems…

5 years ago

Trump’s Assault On the First Amendment Takes Root In Public Louisiana High School

In a tweet, Shaun King shared a chilling announcement from a public high school principle in Louisiana. It's the first…

7 years ago

Opinion: Workers Have To Wear Battle Armor To Safely Remove White Supremacist Monument

"Due to safety concerns, we believed it was very important to take all necessary precautions to protect the safety of…

8 years ago

Republican Senator Torn To Shreds At Town Hall Over His Support For Betsy DeVos

Republicans are learning that they can't defend the indefensible.

8 years ago

Republicans Make Louisiana’s Poor Pay For Jindal’s Economic Damage

Republican legislators will eliminate what little money the poor subsist on and raise the state’s sales tax by 25 percent…

9 years ago

Billions of Dollars in the Red, Louisiana Has Been Destroyed by Bobby Jindal

Starting a new job can be an exhilarating experience, especially when that new position is at the wishes and consent…

9 years ago

Democratic Candidate John Bel Edwards Unloads On David Vitter During Louisiana Debate

Telling the truth about Republican David Vitter is Democrat John Bel Edwards' best weapon in the Louisiana Governor's race.

9 years ago

Louisiana’s GOP Lt. Governor Endorses Democrat Edwards – Not David Vitter

Reince Priebus says David Vitter is the exemplar of Louisiana principles; Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne says that man is Democrat…

9 years ago

Democrats Lead In 2 Of 3 Southern Governor’s Races At Stake in 2015

Three Southern U.S. states have Governors races in 2015, and Democrats are poised to win two of them.

9 years ago

Fed Up With Vitter and Jindal, Louisiana Voters Might Elect Democratic Governor

Democrat John Bel Edwards is in a strong position to capitalize on the GOP's failure, in order to become Louisiana's…

9 years ago

Bombshell Report Reveals That The Kochs Profited From The Misery Of Katrina Victims

The Bridge Project released a report documenting the Kochs' role in compounding the impact of Katrina, while profiting from the…

9 years ago

Bobby Jindal Urges President Obama Not To Mention Climate Change On Katrina Anniversary

Bobby Jindal sent a letter to President Obama, requesting that the president not talk about climate change on Katrina's 10th…

9 years ago

Planned Parenthood Strikes Back At Religious Bully Bobby Jindal

Jindal has refused to expand Medicaid in Louisiana, depriving thousands of healthcare, but says Planned Parenthood disrespects human life

9 years ago

Fox News’ Inability to See White Men with Guns a Danger to Us All

A party that invents "facts" and then claims all future discourse must be based on their fictional evidence should not…

9 years ago

Another Mass Shooting, but GOP Makes it Clear Some Lives Don’t Matter

Bill O'Reilly will not call for a law to protect movie-goers from white men carrying handguns in theaters. Because Second…

9 years ago

Be Afraid Republicans As Bernie Sanders Is Set To Strike In Red State Louisiana

After drawing tens of thousands of supporters in red states Texas and Arizona, the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders has…

9 years ago

Bobby Jindal Has Decided To Let The GOP Be The Stupid Party After All

A little over two years ago, after Democrat Barack Obama soundly defeated Republican Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election,…

9 years ago

Thwarted By House Committee, Jindal Imposes Religion on Louisiana by Executive Order

In one stroke of his pen, perversely pretending to be a defender of the First Amendment,Jindal turned Louisiana into a…

9 years ago

Job Killing GOP Governors Have Resumes That Should Disqualify Them From Being President

Governors Walker, Christie, and Jindal have demonstrated that they are job killers, not job creators.

10 years ago

Defiant Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal Says He Will Stand Firm On Opposing Gay Marriage

Louisiana Republican Governor Bobby Jindal penned a defiant op-ed in The New York Times, defending his opposition to gay marriage.

10 years ago

Apparently, Refusing to Stone Gays Means You’re Not a Christian

Of course, the pastor saying this also needs to be stoned for not following the Law of Moses

10 years ago

GOP War On Gays Rages On As Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal Plans To Sign Anti-Gay Bill

Louisiana GOP Governor Bobby Jindal announced that he intends to sign the "Louisiana Marriage and Conscience Act" into law.

10 years ago

Bryan Fischer Says Only Satan Could Have Made Megyn Kelly Disagree with Bobby Jindal

Megyn Kelly dared question Bobby Jindal on his Islamophobia, and was promptly accused by Bryan Fischer of being blinded by…

10 years ago

Massive School Layoffs, Healthcare, Food Stamp Cuts Populate Scott Walker’s Koch Budget

Scott Walker's budget epitomizes the Koch-Republican "vision for America" and not at all unique among states ruled by Koch-governors with…

10 years ago

GOP Governors Slash Education To Grow Their Ignorant Base 

Because Republicans depend on "the widespread ignorance of objective reality," their fascist threat to democracy is only succeeding due to…

10 years ago

Supply Side Nightmare As Bobby Jindal Pushes Louisiana Into The Fiscal Abyss

Bobby Jindal's Louisiana is facing a 1.6 billion dollar budget shortfall next year, and comparable deficits for the years to…

10 years ago

The Republican Cult of the Penis Has Replaced Christianity

The GOP has concocted a religion that has nothing to do with Jesus and everything to do with what you…

10 years ago

Bobby Jindal’s Prayer Rally Has Just Become a Demonic No-Go Zone

We are told angels will guard the site of Jindal's prayer rally and turn it into a "no-go zone for…

10 years ago

Tea Party Congressman Steve King Compares Embattled GOP Whip To Jesus Christ

As Steve Scalise struggles to distance himself from David Duke, EURO and his involvement with a racist conference twelve years…

10 years ago

GOP House Leader Was Honored Guest Speaker At White Supremacist Conference

This week it was revealed that the third ranking Republican in the House of Representatives is guilty of pandering to…

10 years ago

Republican Kasich Forces Public Schools To Partner with Religion Or Lose Taxpayer Funding

Ohio Governor John Kasich made that "religious extremist duty" mandatory in Ohio. Kasich issued a statement through a spokesman informing…

10 years ago

Jon Stewart: Bobby Jindal Bashing Obama Is “Like Watching A Non-Jedi Try A Jedi Mind Trick”

Jon Stewart took both Bobby Jindal and Mitt Romney to school over their complaints regarding President Obama's upcoming executive orders…

10 years ago

Bold Democrat Mary Landrieu Should Be Truthful About KeystoneXL

It may have been Democrat Howard Dean who said not long ago that if given a choice between voting for…

10 years ago

The Media Finally Catches On That Democrats Are Running The Better Senate Campaigns

Don't look now, but even the mainstream corporate controlled media are catching on that Democrats are running more effective Senate…

10 years ago

Bobby Jindal Shows His Stupidity By Calling Obama Administration ‘Science Deniers’

Jindal is not only "acting" stupid about the reality of evolution and climate change, he is also feigning ignorance of…

10 years ago

GOP Rep Who Claims Senate Is Harry Reid’s Plantation Doesn’t Want To Be Kicked ‘Like A Slave’

In an article published Tuesday in the E&E Daily, a Beltway publication devoted to environmental and energy issues, Rep. Bill…

10 years ago

In A Victory for Public Education Judge Says NC School Vouchers Are Unconstitutional

The judge, Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood, identified the Republican legislation, "Opportunity Scholarship Program," as a scam to "siphon money…

10 years ago

Bobby Jindal Thinks Dumbing Down America Will Make GOP Look “More” Smarter

Jindal says Common Core is a federal plot to takeover education, as though the Founding Fathers didn't support the public…

10 years ago

Bobby Jindal Signs Latest Blow in War on Women in Louisiana Church

America becomes less America and more Afghanistan with each passing day Republicans remain in control at any level of government.

10 years ago

The Republican Party Shows Its True Colors by Embracing Racist Homophobe Phil Robertson

Republican leaders went all-in for religion, religious liberty, and a very heavy emphasis on god courtesy of Duck Dynasty's resident…

10 years ago

ALEC Spearheads Effort To Steal From Employees to Give to Corporations

There is a concerted effort to raid public sector employee pensions to give corporations and the wealthy tax breaks that…

11 years ago

Buddhist Student Told to Change his Religion if he Doesn’t Want to be Taught Creationism in School

The Louisiana teacher's logic is that "if evolution was real, it would still be happening: Apes would be turning into…

11 years ago

Obamacare Delivers Knockout Blow To GOP As Majority Of States Have Expanded Medicaid

The further we go along into the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and more people see what it offers…

11 years ago

Prostitute-Loving GOP Senator David Vitter Will Run For Governor In Louisiana

On Tuesday, Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) announced via email that he will run for Governor of Louisiana in 2015.

11 years ago

Like a Bad Penny, the Right’s Absurd Duck Dynasty Flap Keeps Turning Up

Phil Robertson, of the Duck Dynasty reality show family, is in hot water over comments in a magazine bashing gays.…

11 years ago

The Religious Right Champions Moral Relativism in Defense of Phil Robertson

All this fuss about Phil Robertson comes down to the Religious Right's insistence that they have a right to say…

11 years ago

Republicans Substitute Conservative Ideology For Science and History In Public Schools

Republicans are using public school funds to teach Christian conservative ideology in place of science and American history.

11 years ago

Louisiana Republicans, Hurricane Katrina, and Time Travel

Progressives sometimes criticize the south as backward, but that's not entirely fair. For example, Louisiana Republicans have developed time travel

11 years ago

Republicans Take America Back (To the 19th Century) By Cutting Education and Paved Roads

Since 2011,Republican governors have taken their country back with the systematic demolition of the public education system and for Texas…

11 years ago

ALEC Continues to Push Failed Market-Based Educational Reforms

Market-based educational reform is an utter failure, and yet we still can't shake the nasty remnants of its bad policy…

11 years ago

Southern States Are Pushing Themselves Deeper Into Poverty By Voting Republican

A rash of other, mostly poor Republican-controlled, Southern states are falling deeper into poverty and the greatest amount of their…

11 years ago

Gov. Phil Bryant’s Working Moms Comments Are Why GOP Ignorance Must Be Run Out of Office

Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant's comments blaming the nation's education troubles on women joining the workforce are exactly why Republicans must…

11 years ago

15 Republican Governors Would Rather Kill Their Own Citizens Than Expand Medicaid

15 states with Republican governors are refusing to expand Medicaid even though the first 3 years are free and never…

12 years ago

Making It Up As They Go Along, Republicans Use Fantasies To Block Obama Nominees

When obstruction for obstruction's sake is the Republican reason for serving in government, any fantastical reason suffices to block the…

12 years ago

Steven Seagal Shows Sheriff Joe’s Criminal Vigilantes How to Rescue our Children

Are you not entertained? Former action star Steven Seagal is training a criminal collection of deputies how to protect our…

12 years ago

Republicans Can’t Let Go Ronald Reagan’s Economy Crushing Failed Policies

Republicans are intent on returning to policies that, thirty years later, finally bore fruit and nearly destroyed the nation's economy.

12 years ago

Republicans Use Taxpayer Dollars to Insert Religion into Public Education

There is a growing movement to insert religion into the education system using taxpayer dollars.

12 years ago

Republicans Turn Charter School Officials Into the New Robber Barons

School privatization is the new Gold Rush. There is money to be made in them there hills. And charter schools…

12 years ago

Red State Secession Would Be a Dream Come True for the Rest of America

Don't tell me that some little part of you would not just like to say to Texas, or to another…

12 years ago

As Isaac Arrives Republicans Threaten to Deny Disaster Relief Funding

House Republicans are already threatening to deny disaster relief funding for Hurricane Isaac unless they get more budget cuts.

12 years ago

Spiritual Hurricanes and an Aura of Unreality Surround GOP Convention

Most of us like a little reality in our diet, but the Republican Convention seems to be focused more on…

12 years ago

Thanks to the ACLU, No More Expulsions for Pregnant Students at Louisiana School

This is a story about how little law makers and school officials know about the constitution and it's application to…

12 years ago

Bryan Fischer Says Sikh Temple Shooter a Liberal Because He’s a Nazi

Fischer claims the the neo-Nazi Sikh temple shooter was a liberal because he was a Nazi but a glance at…

12 years ago

Louisiana School Voucher Decision Banishes Children to the Bronze Age

Rather than fixing its troubled public school system, Louisiana will remove standards and replace modern science with Bronze Age belief

12 years ago

In Louisiana School, Loch Ness Monster Disproves Evolution

A fundamentalist Christian textbook used in a Louisiana school insists that because the Loch Ness Monster is real, evolution must…

12 years ago