capital city of Louisiana, United States, and seat of East Baton Rouge Parish
In 2020, Gov. Roy Cooper issued a slew of executive orders under the rubric of limiting the spread of Covid-19, which he justified by the slogan of “science and data.”…
Yesterday, Jan. 27, Cooper issued another Executive Order that added a new section of justifications, clearly spurred by the lawsuit.
Victoria Taft writes at PJMedia.com about the federal government’s iniital response to violence at recent protests nationwide. Washington is taking steps beyond charges lodged by local law enforcement. The Department…
On Thursday, January 30, the Pelican Institute for Public Policy held its “Solutions Summit 2.0” in Baton Rouge for Louisiana policy leaders. The event brought together over 200 attendees as…
Mitch Kokai writes on recent tax reform discussion at the Pelican Institute’s policy summit: North Carolina continues to attract national attention for the success of its state-level tax reforms. That…
Elizabeth Harrington of the Washington Free Beacon explores another dubious use of taxpayer funding. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is spending a quarter of a million dollars on an effort…
JLF’s Jon Guze compares murder rates in cities across the nation to cities in North Carolina using an online analytical tool at AmericanViolence.org. Here are the top 10 cities for 2017…
When I was a kid growing up in St. Louis, my friends and I used to take a grim sort of pride in the fact that, however far our hometown…
Michael Tomasky, editor of the journal Democracy, has advice for those who would like fewer socialists. “Stop creating them.” Tomasky outlines a number of ways that cronies in government and…
George Leef’s latest Martin Center column focuses on a case in which tenure did not help a college professor escape the wrath of an angry administration. Teresa Buchanan had been…
David French of National Review Online explores the role highly volatile rhetoric plays in provoking real violence. Whenever there is a politically motivated murder, there is an immediate race to…
Rich Lowry‘s latest column at National Review Online focuses on President Obama’s inaccurate portrayals of police and crime data. President Barack Obama is a lawyer, not a statistician, and it…