Paper trail (green) out of Texas

    Wacky, bewitching Michele Bachmann, whose candidacy is melting, melting, actually has offered something of substance to voters just before she becomes a vapor.     She’s called the hand that has suddenly doused her campaign with her own tea-steeped brew, the hand of Rick Perry. So doing, she's made a very important point.     …

The mogul behind The Extremes

   Lights, sequins, syncopation. They do put on a performance. Governing? No. But glitter, glam and that good old anti-government sound? Oh, yeah. You can almost hear the Gipper tapping his toe.    They are the show that’s trying to stop the show. They are The Extremes.    Michele. Rick. Rand. There’s Texas right-winger Louie…

‘Wiser today than yesterday’

   Face it. Regression is in. Let us return to yesteryear. Actually, let’s return to the day before that.    A marginal candidate wins the Senate seat from Kentucky saying the Voting Rights Act is obsolete.    An even more marginal candidate emerges as the Republican presidential favorite in Iowa. Her husband makes his living…