Unpaid Guard at Louisiana’s Angola Prison
AP: The way the warden sees it, the more than 400-pound black bear living in the middle of the sprawling Louisiana State Penitentiary is an extra layer of security. “I love that bear being right where...
View ArticleReal Political Violence (Or Perhaps Not, After All)
Allee Bautsch and Joe Brown We heard a great deal from democrats, the dinosaur media, and the punditocracy of the left recently about conservative rhetoric and all sorts of supposititious threats of...
View ArticleYale’s First African American Graduate
Randall Lee Gibson (above) was valedictorian of the Yale Class of 1853. He had been born a member of the planter aristocracy of Kentucky and Louisiana. He was a keen secessionist and fought for the...
View ArticleThe Natural Response to Last Tuesday
Petitions are underway on the White House web-site requesting that Louisiana and Texas each be allowed peacefully to secede. If they succeed, I’ll certainly move there. Deo vindice. ——————— Update: I...
View ArticleLouisiana Sinkhole Devours Trees
Shot two days ago by members of the Assumption Parish Office of Emergency Preparedness in Louisiana, an entire stand of trees is suddenly swallowed by an underwater sinkhole above a collapsing salt...
View ArticleElephants Save 18-Wheeler Truck
Business Insider describes an emergency situation in which it turned out that the trucker had exactly the right equipment in the back of his cargo bed. Sometimes, the only thing standing between you...
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