Louisiana politics: Undone by the wind

By Froma Harrop BATON ROUGE, La. -- I assume that someone has removed the crushed blue Hyundai from the parking lot of Jimmy Swaggart Ministries. Two days after Hurricane Ike, the car was there with a tree trunk still embedded in its roof. And Ike was a pussycat next to Gustav, which had pummeled the area two weeks before. But trees weren't the only things uprooted in Louisiana. Much of the state was without... [read full story]