Water is an efficient conveyor of sound. At a peaceful, four-star hotel pool, even more so. Recently, in a departure from workaday toils at an education conference, I experienced at poolside how the nonworkaday world lives, and thinks. Two suntanners, who definitely are not fans of our president, were talking health care policy. Both appeared…
I am not going to ascribe to all Baptists the biblical stylings of Wiley Drake. He’s the preacher from California, a former vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention, who told Fox News he prays for Barack Obama to die. Drake has an ironclad explanation should the Secret Service show up at his door. He…
I’d love to know back in the ’60s when that delicious sense of inevitability set in — that sense that, though struggles would remain, right was winning and Jim Crow was toast. It might have been like last week with these revelations: Both Dick Cheney and Ted Olson came out for same-sex marriage. That was…
Upon Senate passage of the state biennial budget, the well-attired David Dewhurst was busting his buttons. The lieutenant governor praised a state budget “that meets the needs of our growing state.” State Sen. Elliott Shapleigh, D-El Paso, had a different take: With this budget, the gorgeous state of Texas once again is jostling for the…
These bogus arguments have lost their roar Just in time for summer movies, but most likely headed straight for DVD: Dick Cheney stars in Land of the Lost Arguments. Also wearing loincloth in starring roles: Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, with not so much as a cameo by George W. Bush. He’s not even…
Honestly, I don’t think they’ve been paying attention. I speak of the folks who still appear to take President Barack Obama for a soft touch. Babe in woods. Doe in headlights. One step from the doorstep of “community organizer.” They haven’t been paying attention. Maybe because they don’t want to see what’s evident. The guy…
AUSTIN — Cherry is her name. And once upon a time, well . . . “I went crazy — really crazy.” She says it with a smile. She is tending the kitchen at Southpointe, a residence for people with various disabilities. Once upon a time, she was a hard-working contributor to society. Then a chemical imbalance…
This is not just a threat to the American way of life. It threatens the “very survival of freedom.” So says former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke. Tell us, Brother Duke. What is it? Unauthorized eavesdropping? The abolition of habeas corpus? Martial law under the Patriot Act? Actually,…
Someone in Texas has died from a scary-sounding flu. Have we closed the state yet? I mean, really. What are those people doing in the streets of Maypearl and the tractors of Hartley County when they could be duct-taping their windows? Really. When has such emotional and informational energy been exerted to less informational benefit?…
When Sen. Arlen Specter left the Republican Party for the Democrats last week, “good riddance” was uttered near and far, particularly on the AM radio dial. Specter was a RINO —Republican in Name Only — said partisan puritans. He was pro-choice. He supported the Obama stimulus package. The party is stronger for the purging of…