The Huck Upchuck

In a lengthy front-page article , Molly Reid of the Times-Picayune covers the NOLA blogosphere and its impact as watchdog and gadfly on loc...

Barack Obama's first administration hinges on the outcome of the current Healthcare Reform debate. But this debate will come to an end ...

The erstwhile Democratic Party wannabee for Louisiana's Federal House of Representatives Congressional District 2 seat, Helena Moreno, a...

Mary Landrieu is repeatedly criticized by Catholics and the Catholic Church for being a "pro-choice" politician. Hell, the Archbi...

I read the Times-Picayune 's article on Sen. Mary Landrieu's health care town hall meeting today. I came across this gem from an o...

What I wrote four years ago today as Hurricane Katrina was bearing down on New Orleans. My first post-Katrina post from September 1, 2005....

goes to conservative blogger Melissa Clouthier . Commenting upon Ted Kennedy's death, Ms. Clouthier wrapped up a pitiful, meaningless c...

Read this gripping story of one family's struggle with the health care system as it currently operates. If this story is, by itself al...

I'm sure many have heard about the the case of Rosemary Port , whose identity was revealed by Google, which hosted her blog, after a cou...

Junot Diaz, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao , is coming to New Orleans . He'll be givin...

With this posting, which makes number 32 for the Month of August, I have fulfilled my Blogging "Self-Nudge" arrangement for this ...

Well, the 4th Annual Rising Tide Conference has apparently concluded. I was only able to stay until about 2pm, but that was enough to hear ...

Tomorrow is the convening of Rising Tide IV , which is the fourth annual conference organized by the who's who of the local New Orleans ...

Now this I like: On the eve of Archbishop Gregory Aymond's installation Mass, he has joined with Archbishop Alfred Hughes to release a ...

Much byte-ink has been spilled about conservative Catholic Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's comment in a dissenting SCOTUS opinion...

BLOG UNDER SURVEILLANCE: Right Wing News Issue: John Hawkins's Disingenuousness About Race I have a running chronicle of John Hawkins...

Advice to Young Conservatives Getting Ready for College

What many anti-illegal immigrant, but supposedly free-market conservatives don't want you to know: The overall positive impact for U.S. ...

Not sure how many people noticed or paid attention to the following story, but I found it very newsworthy. Louisiana's only Democratic c...

This dude is superhuman . As someone who has followed Track & Field sports his whole life, I can tell you that running a legitimate 9.5...