Editorial

Many of the most prominent newspaper columnists in the state have voiced their opinion that former governor Edwin Edwards has been punished enough. We share their opinions.
Every reasonable and compassionate person in the state believes Edwards has been punished enough. At age 81, a ten-year sentence is inhumane, unconsciousable and tantamount to a death sentence. Keeping him in prison serves no useful purpose; absolutely none.

Both my pastor and my Bible teach me that there will be a day when men will turn their swords into plowshares and evil will forever be extinguished on this old earth of ours.
To think of such a glorious time of love and peace is beyond mere human comprehension. Still, one yearns for the day when these prophecies become reality.
Until then, “swords” will be necessary to protect the “God-filled” from the “Godless.”

By Mike Rizzuto
Sun Times Editor

It seems that every time I click on my television, someone in the liberal media is bashing John McCain or Sarah Palin, making up material that neither said. Those lies are soon accepted as “truths” by average Americans, especially if they’re played up as “skits” on programs like Saturday Night Live.

By Mike Rizzuto
Sun Times Editor

There is little doubt this presidential election year that the progressive, liberal media is totally “in the tank” for Sen. Barack Obama and his candidacy.
All one has to do to confirm my assertion is to objectively read the newspapers, watch the television talk shows, and witness the differentiation of the softball questions pitched to the Obama-Biden camp and the tough, “gotcha” style interrogations proposed to Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin.

By La. Gov. Bobby Jindal

On Monday, September 1st at 9:30 a.m., Hurricane Gustav crashed into the town of Cocodrie and marched its way north through Baton Rouge and Alexandria, uprooting trees, knocking out electricity, destroying homes, and flooding neighborhoods from Plaquemine Parish in the southeast all the way to Monroe in the north.  Ten days later Hurricane Ike traversed the Gulf headed for Texas.  It was a Category 2 storm but Ike’s size was so immense, it drove a storm surge for two straight days onto our coast flooding homes from St. Bernard to Cameron.

By Mike Rizzuto
Sun Times Editor

Am I the only one that expects our national leaders to be moral, trusting and honest? Or is that expecting too much from people running for the most powerful executive positions in the world?
This recent John Edwards soap opera is just plain shameful. The 55-year-old Democratic Senator from North Carolina had just about everything anyone could ever want.
You name it, he probably had it.
Billions of dollars.
An enormous, luxurious, multimillion dollar house.
Fame.
Fortune.
Four hundred dollar haircuts.
A promising political career.