New Orleans has elected its first white mayor since 1970 in a city where politics has long been racially divided.

In the remaining days of its lame-duck session, the House should adoptthe narrowly drawn Domenici-Landrieubill to expand Gulf Coast oil and gas production.

When a candidate echoes John McCain and George Bush, he sounds strong, even if he's a Democrat.

After Americansrushed to send billions to victims of Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana legislators served us all with a federal tax bill that would fund yet more pork barrel spending in their state.

Rebuilding New Orleans should be done in an efficient manner, free of politics and pork-barrel spending; Senator Landrieu's proposal does not represent that kind of solution.

RepublicanPartyprospects in the 2008 Senate races have gone from dim to dismal.

Now that Obama has condemned Gaddafi, we should take a page from Reagan and equip and train the Libyan people to fight for their own liberty.

Having a supermajority may have hurt Democrats more than it helped them: it enabled them to block Republicans out the health reform legislation process, thereby violating Barack Obama's campaign promise of bipartisanship.