Based on the advance news clippings, Dallas was a very bad place for John F. Kennedy to visit that day. Based on crowds that were beyond adoring, the clippings were wrong and the moment was very right. Then, gunshots. Mortal wounds. Dallas survived, but its convalescence would be excruciating. Few were willing to…
“Glitches” is miserably inadequate to describe the online fiasco that has crippled the rollout of the Affordable Care Act. An outrage is what it is. However, outrage from you, Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa.? You, Congressman Murphy, hammering administration officials last week in Capitol hearings? “We were promised a website where…
It had every ingredient of Election Day — the crispness of autumn, the electricity of pronouncements, the winners, the losers. It was as if Americans had voted. In fact, they had. And for the second time in two years, Republicans finally conceded defeat. They would cede to the popular will and, in this case, let…
Call it the conundrum of the New Confederacy. Call it, “All dressed up in gray and no place to go.” They passed around “we secede” petitions when President Obama won re-election. Didn’t work. They sued to stop the Affordable Care Act. Didn’t work. They shut down the…
Gather ’round, children, as the first chill of autumn presents itself. The Farmer’s Almanac forecasts a harsh winter. The Almanac of American Politics calls that an understatement. Rarely has a wind this ill so beset the nation’s capital. Speaking of magazines: On the cover of the Oct. 14 Time, “Majority Rule” is smudged out in red against dark…
Look it up. The symptoms of hyperventilation are dizziness, tingling in the lips and extremities, fainting, and in the most extreme circumstances, full or partial shutdown of the U.S. government. We are seeing hyperventilation’s fruits in the Republican Party’s frantic bid to talk away the Affordable Care Act. The duly authorized, duly…
Did we ever tire of it? No matter how many times Wile E. Coyote face-planted on the cliff or came up on the underside of his own boulder, we watched for his next botched plan. Wile E. is a lot like an increasingly cartoonish presence on the political scene these days. …
In Colorado, headline writers have run out of ways to say “unprecedented.” In the span of two weeks, the state went from unheard-of “heat day” school closures — yes, in September — to the worst floods since the mountains were under the sea. This follows a fire season worse than the previous, each the costliest…
As if what one Republican state lawmaker said wasn’t bad enough, another came along to, um, second it. The subject was fried chicken. And barbecue. And black people. We need not point out the skin color of Colorado state Sen. Vicki Marble, R-Fort Collins, and State Rep. Lori Sain, R-Dacono. Not at…
One concern about having millions more Americans covered by health insurance is the relative dearth of primary-care physicians. Some have used that as a reason to say we shouldn’t insure so many Americans. You know, those who have it ought to have it, and those who can’t ought to have squat. A…