The Hayride

22/07/2025

https://thehayride.com/2025/07/wright-forty-five-years-of-failure-is-enough-its-time-to-abolish-the-u-s-department-of-education/

In 1979, the federal government created the U.S. Department of Education with promises of national excellence and equal opportunity in schooling. Forty-five years later, what do we have to show for it? A bloated bureaucracy in Washington, wasted taxpayer dollars, declining student performance, and f...

22/07/2025

https://thehayride.com/2025/07/crouere-good-night-and-good-riddance-to-the-late-show/

Next May, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will officially cease production. CBS made the decision to end the program, which began in 1992 with David Letterman as host. After his retirement in 2015, Letterman was replaced by Stephen Colbert, who was previously a regular guest on The Daily Show and...

22/07/2025

When Mark Levin tells you to move on from Epstein, he’s not just shooing away a scandal—he’s revealing the entire blueprint for how the American mind has been managed since time immemorial. Distract. Dismiss. Dismantle. Memory hole. The problem isn’t that Levin is saying the quiet part out l...

21/07/2025

We can like him as much as we want, but it's going to take a lot better performance than this if he's going to knock off Bill Cassidy.

I hope I’ve made a couple of things clear so far in the things I’ve written about the 2026 Senate race in Louisiana, a topic which is likely to fill up this site in the coming months as more entrants kick off their campaigns and the race takes shape. The first thing is that I’d […]

21/07/2025

https://thehayride.com/2025/07/appel-whats-wrong-with-new-orleans-east/

It was reported that staggering numbers of apartments in New Orlenas East are off the market. The collapse of apartments in the East was the story, but the backstory is more significant. Let’s look at a few reasons why. New Orleans East was developed by private investment largely during the period...

21/07/2025

Full article with 3-min short video included.

The hardest part about waking up isn’t the trauma triggered by some newly inescapable cognitive dissonance. It’s the humility it takes to admit that all the shaming we did to other people was not only wrong, but directed at the wrong source. It’s easy to rage against corruption, betrayal, or m...

18/07/2025

https://thehayride.com/2025/07/its-time-to-call-a-special-session-to-fix-louisianas-congressional-map/

The Supreme Court punted the case of Louisiana’s gerrymandered congressional map last month and that’s a shame. The Court has made a number of recent rulings, including one in Florida which upheld a 20-8 map drawn by its Republican legislature, which indicate that the 4-2 Louisiana map Gov. Jeff...

18/07/2025

"This [the Luke Ash firing] is going to cost the library system a whole lot of money. That's why it's germane to discuss at a library board meeting.

"And Candace Temple and Darryl Hurst had better learn some manners if they don't want to make their jobs a whole lot harder."

You might have seen my American Spectator column earlier this week, or Mike Lunsford’s Hayride story, about what happened to Luke Ash earlier this month. Ash was perhaps the only straight, white conservative male librarian in the East Baton Rouge library system, and he was fired because in a conve...

17/07/2025

"It's the kind of scheme that makes you want to half-seriously advocate a public hanging for all of these idiots, just as a demonstration of how disgusting you find the whole thing."

You probably heard about the rather dramatic law-enforcement bonanza earlier this week which saw federal agents storm into the Louisiana Association of Chiefs of Police conference at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Baton Rouge to arrest a couple of the conventioneers, while also nabbing three others. ICE....

16/07/2025

"What Miguez managed to do after he announced for the Senate, in just two weeks, qualifies him as a Tier One opponent for Cassidy. So far, he's the only one we can say that about."

Yesterday, Blake Miguez put up the first campaign finance report of his bid for the U.S. Senate next year, and the numbers therein show that he’s a very real threat to take out Bill Cassidy in the Republican primary. In just 13 days, conservative fighter and America First candidate Blake Miguez re...

16/07/2025

https://thehayride.com/2025/07/the-spectacle-podcast-are-un-assimilated-foreigners-running-america/

New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh both lack an understanding of what it means to be an American. The Federalist senior editor John Daniel Davidson joins The Spectacle Podcast hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay to discuss the ideology of multi...