“Louisiana” on The Daily Caller

Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler told The Daily Caller that the federal Motor Voter law was set up to “ensure controversy” and that the Obama administration is using it “to advance a political agenda.” (more)

Louisiana Republican Rep. Charles Boustany, who has previously called for Attorney General Eric Holder’s immediate resignation, took to the House floor on Wednesday to double down on his demand. (more)

Republican Reps. Jeff Landry of Louisiana and Alan Nunnelee of Mississippi both told The Daily Caller on Thursday that they think Attorney General Eric Holder should resign immediately over Operation Fast and Furious. When combined Louisianna Rep. Charles Boustany’s call Thursday morning, that makes 46 congressmen who are demanding that Holder step aside now. (more)

BATON ROUGE, La. – As almost 1,300 people Friday streamed into the student union at Louisiana State University to hear Congressman Ron Paul speak, a handful of socialist activists stood outside with an anti-Ron Paul banner proclaiming, “Education and living wages are Human Rights!” (more)

Nine candidates, including four Democrats, one Libertarian, and four non-party candidates have filed papers to challenge Lousiana Gov. Bobby Jindal in an October election. The deadline for qualifying for the gubernatorial election was 5:00 p.m. on Thursday. (more)

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Heavy rains from Tropical Storm Lee were falling in southern Louisiana and pelting the Gulf Coast on Saturday as the storm’s center trudged slowly toward land, where businesses were already beginning to suffer on what would normally be a bustling holiday weekend. The storm could bring as many as 20 inches of rain to some areas. (more)

TIME — There’s a new storm to watch, this time threatening New Orleans and surrounding areas. (more)

Now that the Mississippi River’s Morganza floodgates are open, nearly 25,000 people who had chosen the quiet of the Louisiana bayou over the bustle of city life could find their livelihoods threatened. (more)

BUNCHE’S BEND, La. – Water from the swollen Mississippi River poured over a century-old levee Thursday, flooding 12,000 acres of corn and soybeans despite farmers’ frantic efforts to shore up the structure. Downstream, officials with the Port of New Orleans said the Coast Guard could close the river to ships as early as Monday, halting traffic on one of the world’s busiest commercial waterways. (more)

Republican Senator David Vitter of Louisiana has sent a scathing letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) Director Michael Bromwich about pending permits for offshore drilling. In the letter, Vitter accused Salazar and Bromwich of misleading the public on the number of pending permits. (more)

For now, the Department of the Interior can breathe easy when it comes to oil drilling in the Gulf. Secretary Ken Salazar has been under fire recently for holding up drilling permits, but late Tuesday, he won a court victory. (more)

For Wisconsin voters on both sides of the aisle, it’s senatorial hunting season, and thanks to the organizing power of social media, it may be like shooting fish in a barrel. Embroiled in the state’s budget controversy, all 16 senators vulnerable to the state’s recall laws have had petitions launched against them. (more)

Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer will announce this week his intention to seek the Republican nomination for president in 2012. (more)

Since last November’s midterm elections, dozens of Democratic state lawmakers throughout the South have switched parties and solidified the Republican Party’s control over what was once the most reliably Democratic region of the country. (more)

Former Gov. Edwin Edwards was released Thursday from federal prison after serving eight years on a corruption conviction, and he was allowed to complete his remaining sentence in home detention, rather than in a halfway house. (more)

As I do at the end of each year (which usually elicits many e-mails, but I am going to do it again anyway), here is my look back at 2010. (more)

1.) Incoming congress knows that water wears down the rock not by force, but with constant falling — “To prevent deficit reduction from being used as an excuse for tax hikes, Republicans are getting rid of the ‘Pay-As-You-Go’ rule and replacing it with a ‘Cut-As-You-Go’ rule,” reports The Daily Caller’s Jon Ward. “The rule will require that any legislation that seeks to increase mandatory spending (which is spending that once added to the federal budget recurs year after year and is thus permanent) cuts spending by a similar amount.” If successful, this would change the entire economy of the House. “As [Blunt] put it, ‘Let’s turn the activists for big government on each other, instead of letting them gang up on the taxpayer,’” said Majority Leader John Boehner. “Through this public discussion, we might end up finding out that neither program has a whole lot of merit in the first place.” Instead of trading horses, people will start shooting them. This means fewer horses to feed. (more)

NEW ORLEANS – Police are investigating an early morning shooting in which a male prostitute who was dressed as woman was shot near the intersection of Tulane Avenue and South Miro Street, according to the New Orleans Police Department. (more)

The N.B.A. took the extraordinary step Monday of buying the New Orleans Hornets, one of the league’s most financially troubled franchises, after a deal for the sale of the club fell apart. (more)

Despite the fact that the Republican caucus has sworn off earmarks, the Senate failed this week to receive the necessary 2/3 majority for a legislative ban on earmarks. A silly narrative emerged prior to this vote warning cities of all shapes and sizes that they would suffer colossal funding losses if earmark reform was enacted. Lacking in this analysis were basic facts that everyone should know. (more)