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Dismantling America: Part IV
How did we get to the point where many people feel that the America they have known is being replaced by a very different kind of country, with not only different kinds of policies but very ...
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Dismantling America: Part III
One of the few campaign promises that Barack Obama has kept was this: “We are going to change the United States of America!” As in many other cases, those who were thrilled by the tho...
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Dismantling America: Part II
“We the people” are the central concern of the Constitution, as well as its opening words, since it is a Constitution for a self-governing nation. But “we the people” are treated as an obstacle to...
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Dismantling America
“We the people” are the familiar opening words of the Constitution of the United States-- the framework for a self-governing people, free from the arbitrary edicts of rulers. It was the blueprint f...
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Today is special to Acadians
August 15, the Feast of the Assumption, is a special day to Acadians around the world. It’s officially been National Acadian day since the first National Convention of the Acadians declared it so i...
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1924 was a real scorcher
On August 2, 1924, during a sweltering heat wave, Father W.J. Teurlings, then the pastor of St. John's Cathedral in Lafayette, issued this statement to the Daily Advertiser: "At the Cathedral, a sp...
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‘It’s not what you gather’
A touching story from the Internet that may warm your heart and make your day as it did mine. Have a good day and remember it’s not what you gather! “It’s Not What You Gather” I was at the corner...
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I’ve been called plenty of things but . . .
For the first time in my life I was called a racist last week - and it hurt. I realize that these days that is a very sensitive, touchy subject but I hope to be able to take this on head on. To b...
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Brother Brinkhaus stayed close to home
Joseph Armand Brinkhaus died on the day I was born, March 7, 1944, in the little town of Grand Coteau. He was born there 84 years before, and left the town for any length of time only once. That wa...
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Slot machine raids divided citizenry
Francesco Castiglia, better known as Frank Costello, was already a big-time gangster in New York City in the 1930s when Huey Long was at his peak of power. Costello was consigliore of the Luciana c...
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The two executions of Willie Francis
I’ve always heard that if a person is sentenced to be electrocuted and something happens and the condemned person is not executed through no fault of his; he is supposed to be released due to an ac...
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On house dances and fais-do-dos
Whether the tune is a Cajun two-step, an upbeat Zydeco song, a Swamp Pop melody, or even something with a Big Band sound, the music we make in south Louisiana is designed for dancing -- and it alwa...
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