Editorial

Domestic violence victims deserve safe, happy lives

A safety alert at the top of the home page for Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence reads as follows: “Your computer use may be monitored and is almost impossible to completely clean. If you are afraid of someone detecting your internet or computer usage, please use a safer computer.”

New norm or new warning?

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guess when God decided he was going I to give us the freedom to choose from right and wrong, He assumed we would eventually get it right. Well, it’s a good thing He has a lot of patience. As we enter the fourth quarter of 2020, one should look back just briefly to see the path we have taken. Don’t dwell upon the past but remember it long enough to profit from our mistakes and plan for a smarter future.

‘Waves of anger and fear’ fuel conspiracy theories

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This just in: There’s no wizard behind the curtain, and nobody’s actually in charge. There’s no shadowy cabal of billionaires scheming to bring about one-world government. To begin with, nobody clever enough to accumulate that much money believes that such a thing is A) remotely possible, or B) even desirable.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

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Dear Editor,

A Catholic priest in California was on TV saying that the government has no right to determine how many people can attend church.

Once this or any other people in government can quote to a church when can this end?

These people that run their mouth of this do not go anyway and would like its end.

Freedom is freedom of religious doings and listening is listening and worship is worshiping and not a crime.

America was born on freedom of religion, not one of hate!

T-shirt masks and barbed wire

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Sometimes when my mind cannot focus on one train of thought, or I do not have enough thoughts on a topic to commit to a full column, I throw together a little lagniappe of topics. Since that seems to be my problem again this week, here is a gumbo of thoughts I would like to share:

No undecided voters at this Trump Town Hall

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I do not believe that there are any undecided voters left in Pennsylvania. I say this after watching the recent Town Hall in Philadelphia, where some allegedly “undecided” voters gathered to ask questions of Donald Trump at the Constitution Center.

Wet weather requires headlights

During this week’s wet weather, you might have noticed a number of people driving without their headlights on. This is in violation of Louisiana law and poses a threat to other drivers sharing the roadway.

Biden keeps SCOTUS list secret, refuses to disavow court-packing scheme

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In a few days, we’ll know who President Trump wants to be the next Supreme Court justice. Republicans will praise her qualifications, her intellect, her judicial temperament. Democrats will oppose. There will be an opportunity for a real debate: Should the president’s nominee be confirmed to the nation’s highest court?

Biden’s grace, empathy reminds us of America’s better angels

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Joe Vadala’s question was heartbreaking in every way imaginable. Vadala, a high school teacher whose fight against multiple sclerosis has left him immunocompromised, looked Joe Biden in the eye last week during CNN town hall in Scranton, Pa., told him he wanted to teach, but “I don’t want to die,” and leave his wife, who’d lost her own mother to COVID-19, a widow.

Woodward went straight to the source and got his scoop

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So Bob Woodward went out and found the “named source” Trumpists were clamoring for: Boss Trump himself.

Following a bitter dispute over an anonymously sourced article in The Atlantic that quoted their hero calling American war dead in a French cemetery “suckers” and “losers” for being fool enough to serve their country, nothing less would have convinced them.