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Though Louisiana has been receiving a bit more rain over the last 30 days, as compared to a hot and dry summer, state officials are still leaning toward the burn ban that was issued in August.

The continuing incursion of illegal border crossers into the United States is the most astonishing story in American politics. There have been days recently in which 10,000 people crossed illegally into the country — and remember, in a long-ago era, when Barack Obama was president, a tenth of that was considered a crisis.