Rick Gallot, the president of Grambling State University in Grambling, Louisiana, announced that the university would cancel classes and impose a curfew after the school experienced two fatal shootings within a week.
After playing a clip of the comments, CNN's Jake Tapper remarked, "I don’t even know what to say to that, it’s so stupid."
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) blamed the spread of coronavirus in Louisiana on one or two people weakening their immune systems at Mardi Gras.
In a tweet, Shaun King shared a chilling announcement from a public high school principle in Louisiana. It’s the first indication that Trump’s attack on the first amendment is taking root.
"Due to safety concerns, we believed it was very important to take all necessary precautions to protect the safety of all personnel involved in the operation.”
Republicans are learning that they can't defend the indefensible.
Republican legislators will eliminate what little money the poor subsist on and raise the state’s sales tax by 25 percent through 2018
Starting a new job can be an exhilarating experience, especially when that new position is at the wishes and consent of millions of voters. However, for Louisiana’s new governor, John Bel Edwards (D), whatever exhilaration might exist at being chosen to run the state likely turned to fright and despair when he realized just how devastating was the severe budget crisis left him by his predecessor. It is an all-too-common story in America: a Republican administration inherits a surplus and directly sends the economy into free-fall by racking up colossal deficits, and then a Democrat has to spend their time and energy cleaning up what is always an economic disaster.
Telling the truth about Republican David Vitter is Democrat John Bel Edwards' best weapon in the Louisiana Governor's race.
Reince Priebus says David Vitter is the exemplar of Louisiana principles; Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne says that man is Democrat John Bel Edwards
Three Southern U.S. states have Governors races in 2015, and Democrats are poised to win two of them.
Democrat John Bel Edwards is in a strong position to capitalize on the GOP's failure, in order to become Louisiana's next Governor.
The Bridge Project released a report documenting the Kochs' role in compounding the impact of Katrina, while profiting from the storm.
Bobby Jindal sent a letter to President Obama, requesting that the president not talk about climate change on Katrina's 10th anniversary.
Jindal has refused to expand Medicaid in Louisiana, depriving thousands of healthcare, but says Planned Parenthood disrespects human life
A party that invents "facts" and then claims all future discourse must be based on their fictional evidence should not be allowed on TV
Bill O'Reilly will not call for a law to protect movie-goers from white men carrying handguns in theaters. Because Second Amendment rights
After drawing tens of thousands of supporters in red states Texas and Arizona, the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders has announced that they will be rallying in Louisiana this weekend.
A little over two years ago, after Democrat Barack Obama soundly defeated Republican Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal admonished fellow Republicans to “stop being the stupid party”. Jindal’s comments were not only directed at Mitt Romney’s politically tone deaf presidential campaign, but also at insensitive GOP Senate candidates like Todd Akin (MO) and Richard Mourdock (IN) who suffered humiliating defeats in red state races after making inexplicable and unconscionable comments about rape.
In one stroke of his pen, perversely pretending to be a defender of the First Amendment,Jindal turned Louisiana into a theocracy.
Governors Walker, Christie, and Jindal have demonstrated that they are job killers, not job creators.
Louisiana Republican Governor Bobby Jindal penned a defiant op-ed in The New York Times, defending his opposition to gay marriage.
Of course, the pastor saying this also needs to be stoned for not following the Law of Moses
Louisiana GOP Governor Bobby Jindal announced that he intends to sign the "Louisiana Marriage and Conscience Act" into law.
Megyn Kelly dared question Bobby Jindal on his Islamophobia, and was promptly accused by Bryan Fischer of being blinded by Satan
Scott Walker's budget epitomizes the Koch-Republican "vision for America" and not at all unique among states ruled by Koch-governors with Republican legislatures. In Wisconsin, because Walker has driven the state's deficit over the $2 billion mark with tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, he intends on slashing yet another $300 million from the University of Wisconsin system over two years, and for fun will make seriously Draconian cuts to health care and food stamps.
Because Republicans depend on "the widespread ignorance of objective reality," their fascist threat to democracy is only succeeding due to the abundance of ignorance and gross stupidity of America's uneducated citizenry. Subsequently, Republicans are building on their success and slashing education funding at a record pace to produce an entire population of stupid conservative voters.
Bobby Jindal's Louisiana is facing a 1.6 billion dollar budget shortfall next year, and comparable deficits for the years to come.
The GOP has concocted a religion that has nothing to do with Jesus and everything to do with what you do with your reproductive organs
We are told angels will guard the site of Jindal's prayer rally and turn it into a "no-go zone for demons in the name of Jesus."
As Steve Scalise struggles to distance himself from David Duke, EURO and his involvement with a racist conference twelve years ago, he has found at least one ally who will vouch for his character -- Rep. Steve King (R-IA).
This week it was revealed that the third ranking Republican in the House of Representatives is guilty of pandering to a white supremacist extremist organization founded by former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke.
Ohio Governor John Kasich made that "religious extremist duty" mandatory in Ohio. Kasich issued a statement through a spokesman informing Ohio schools that if they fail to align with Christian organizations, they will lose funding.
Jon Stewart took both Bobby Jindal and Mitt Romney to school over their complaints regarding President Obama's upcoming executive orders on immigration.
It may have been Democrat Howard Dean who said not long ago that if given a choice between voting for a Republican, or a Republican-lite, voters of both parties will always opt for the real Republican; because they cannot trust a Democrat pandering for votes as a Republican. It is a lesson Senator Mary Landrieu, and soon-to-be-former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, would do well to heed.
Don't look now, but even the mainstream corporate controlled media are catching on that Democrats are running more effective Senate campaigns than Republicans.
Jindal is not only "acting" stupid about the reality of evolution and climate change, he is also feigning ignorance of America's ascension as the biggest coal, oil, and natural gas producers and exporters in the world.
In an article published Tuesday in the E&E Daily, a Beltway publication devoted to environmental and energy issues, Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) stated that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid "runs the Senate like a plantation."
The judge, Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood, identified the Republican legislation, "Opportunity Scholarship Program," as a scam to "siphon money from the public schools in favor of private schools and allows funding of non-public schools that discriminate on account of religion."
Jindal says Common Core is a federal plot to takeover education, as though the Founding Fathers didn't support the public funding of education.
America becomes less America and more Afghanistan with each passing day Republicans remain in control at any level of government.
Republican leaders went all-in for religion, religious liberty, and a very heavy emphasis on god courtesy of Duck Dynasty's resident homophobe Phil Robertson.
There is a concerted effort to raid public sector employee pensions to give corporations and the wealthy tax breaks that was the purview of Republicans but is gaining support among some state-level Democrats.
The Louisiana teacher's logic is that "if evolution was real, it would still be happening: Apes would be turning into humans today."
The further we go along into the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and more people see what it offers them, the less likely the GOP is going to be able to do anything about the law and will have to accept it.
On Tuesday, Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) announced via email that he will run for Governor of Louisiana in 2015.
Phil Robertson, of the Duck Dynasty reality show family, is in hot water over comments in a magazine bashing gays. It's all political!
All this fuss about Phil Robertson comes down to the Religious Right's insistence that they have a right to say nobody else has rights
Republicans are using public school funds to teach Christian conservative ideology in place of science and American history.
Progressives sometimes criticize the south as backward, but that's not entirely fair. For example, Louisiana Republicans have developed time travel
Since 2011,Republican governors have taken their country back with the systematic demolition of the public education system and for Texas residents, the loss of paved roads.
Market-based educational reform is an utter failure, and yet we still can't shake the nasty remnants of its bad policy influence
A rash of other, mostly poor Republican-controlled, Southern states are falling deeper into poverty and the greatest amount of their policies' damage is affecting children.
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant's comments blaming the nation's education troubles on women joining the workforce are exactly why Republicans must be voted out of office.
15 states with Republican governors are refusing to expand Medicaid even though the first 3 years are free and never more than 10% in state costs.
When obstruction for obstruction's sake is the Republican reason for serving in government, any fantastical reason suffices to block the President's choices.
Are you not entertained? Former action star Steven Seagal is training a criminal collection of deputies how to protect our school children
Republicans are intent on returning to policies that, thirty years later, finally bore fruit and nearly destroyed the nation's economy.
There is a growing movement to insert religion into the education system using taxpayer dollars.
School privatization is the new Gold Rush. There is money to be made in them there hills. And charter schools are the the Republican hammer to be used to prise it out of our hands.
Don't tell me that some little part of you would not just like to say to Texas, or to another Southern state of your choice, 'Fine. Go. We admit it. 1861 was a mistake and we are undoing it now.'
House Republicans are already threatening to deny disaster relief funding for Hurricane Isaac unless they get more budget cuts.
Most of us like a little reality in our diet, but the Republican Convention seems to be focused more on how to mainstream the crazy
This is a story about how little law makers and school officials know about the constitution and it's application to pregnant students.
Fischer claims the the neo-Nazi Sikh temple shooter was a liberal because he was a Nazi but a glance at the rhetoric tells a different story
Rather than fixing its troubled public school system, Louisiana will remove standards and replace modern science with Bronze Age belief
A fundamentalist Christian textbook used in a Louisiana school insists that because the Loch Ness Monster is real, evolution must not be