'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
A federal judge has agreed to cut short former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards' court supervision following his release from prison.
Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards will star on a new cable TV show with the woman he married after his release from federal prison on a corruption conviction.
U.S. Attorney Jim Letten, whose successful prosecution of a former Louisiana governor and numerous other public officials won him bipartisan praise for more than a decade, resigned Thursday while the Justice Department investigates alleged misconduct by his top deputies.
Two single-engine float planes collided as they flew near an Alaska lake and one of them crashed and burned, killing the four people aboard, authorities said. The second plane landed safely despite significant damage.
Former Gov. Edwin Edwards, a charismatic populist who long dominated Louisiana politics, was released from federal prison Thursday after serving eight years on a corruption conviction and will be allowed to complete his sentence in home detention.
Voters in Louisiana are shockproof, with years of experience weighing the demerits — and even the occasional merits — of their native politicians. They often find the politicians wanting — and want more anyway. The motto of Mardi Gras — "Laissez les bon temps roulez," or "Let the good times roll" — works year-round.
David Vitter returned to the U.S. Senate this week, having survived the storm, such as it is, over his trysts with ladies of the evening. So far the tempest over this particular constituent service resembles an afternoon thunderstorm over Lake Pontchartrain, full of sound and fury and signifying nothing that can't be easily overlooked in Louisiana.
David Vitter returned to the U.S. Senate this week, having survived the storm, such as it is, over his trysts with ladies of the evening. So far the tempest over this particular constituent service resembles an afternoon thunderstorm over Lake Pontchartrain, full of sound and fury and signifying nothing that can't be easily overlooked in Louisiana.
"Vote for the crook, not the kook." That visually parallel phrase assumes that political criminality requires an appreciation of reality and consequences that political fanaticism inevitably lacks. The sleazy opportunist is less dangerous than the obsessed ideologue.
"People who don't know me don't know what a wonderful, pleasant, modest fellow I am," Mr. Edwards said when asked how a man his age managed to land a much-younger wife.
