“My rackets,” Al Capone once told an interviewer, “are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.” That’s the line Tom DeLay will try on a judge now that five members of the U.S. Supreme Court have ruled that previously illegal corporate campaign contributions are protected free speech.…
Perhaps we should redirect the words of the smashingly succinct Joseph Welch toward the controlling clique on the Texas State Board of Education: “Have you no sense of decency?” The answer is no, and none is required. All that is required, apparently, is seven votes to say that up is down and Joseph…
The year was 1993, and I was being besieged by experts. I never knew so many people knew so much until that year — when a raid on the Branch Davidian compound outside Waco went so seriously afoul that the standoff ended up a nightly fixation on CNN and the networks. …
If self-interest alone were to guide one’s politics, I’d be writing my congressman to support the HAPPY Act. As would my seven cats, my three dogs, my three rabbits. Well, I’m not. And I’ve told the pets to put their quills in their ink wells, and slowly walk away. The…