(In honor of the recent passing of Phil Robert- son, I found this article I wrote about him 45 years ago on February 7, 1980 when I was outdoors edi- tor for the Shreveport Journal.) Joe Aillet should have realized earlier that he was fighting a losing battle. Phil Robert- son, his promising quarterback, had other things on his mind …

We often have a fortunate conclusion to a potential- ly bad situation. As the bad situation comes to a good ending a person may utter the phrase, “thank God” and breath a sigh of relief. Probably the event is very small and may only impact a single person thus invoking God’s support is not truly required; however, there have been …

Well here they go again. Political extremists who work behind the scenes in both national political parties have dusted off their old playbook by attacking the mili- tary record of both vice presidential candidates. Such at- tacks even have a name. It’s called swift boating. The name comes from the vicious assaults against former Democratic presidential nomi- nee John Kerry …