After years of financial chicanery, federal prosecutors have decided that Wall Street manipulators are both too big to fail and too big to jail.

It’s now time to put the politics aside, and for members of Congress to stop the name calling.

It’s now time to put the politics aside, and for members of Congress to stop the name calling.

How do the voters feel about the ethics of your governor, Congressman or U.S. Senator?  

How do the voters feel about the ethics of your governor, Congressman or U.S. Senator?  

The nation’s long election ordeal is over. While that may be good news, we must temper it with the fact that Congress is now back in session.

How long did President Barack Obama control Congress after being sworn in January 2009?

As usual in these kinds of cases, the reason for the intensity of Louisiana’s Third House District contest between U.S. Reps. Charles Boustany and Jeff Landry is because they are so similar on the issues – which produces an opportunity actually to dissect and discuss the issues.

Trying for his fifth term, Boustany, from an old-line political family in Lafayette, got matched with freshman Landry, with a much newer political pedigree, because of redistricting brought about by Louisiana’s failure to grow much in population in the last decade. Both being Republicans in an area that has evolved into a solidly conservative national electoral district, one will win.