Define “we,” Mr. Secretary. The secretary of health — standing behind the president, who was nearly awake — stepped lively to field a question about the hantavirus on the cruise ship: “We’ve got it under control.” This would be true if he spoke broadly. “We,” meaning the human race. “We,” meaning the family of man.…
DetailsBefore getting to what a brazen billionaire has in mind for CBS News and CNN, let’s talk about Stephen Colbert. Colbert’s show goes off the air May 21, yanked by CBS in advance of a hostile takeover. “Economic decision,” said network brass. That’s cheap lunch meat. Colbert has been the late-night leader most of his…
DetailsIn January unless something happens akin to a New York Jets’ Super Bowl victory, the U.S. House of Representatives will have no black Republicans. And a lot fewer Republicans, period. The only blacks — four — now on that side of the House aisle are headed to retirement or are seeking offices in their home…
DetailsBaylor University’s Waco Hall is cavernous. At 2,200 seats it can make one feel grand or small, depending on the moment. The grand: Art Garfunkel sings “Bridge Over Troubled Water” to a symphony orchestra. I was there. The small: Turning Point USA stages a puny partisan pep rally there. It was going to be HUGE,…
DetailsIt was news when the big, bad wolf who is president subjected a convened Supreme Court to a first-ever front-row staredown. More significant, however, was the moment he huffed and puffed out of the courtroom. He did it just as counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union stepped up to provide what likely is a…
DetailsGlancing at the grocery store newsstand, I caught the Page 1 image of a rocket blasting skyward in a ball of flame. “How many innocents will die when that hits its target?” I pondered. Then I realized it wasn’t a missile fired to decimate but a vessel to elevate mankind to previously unreached heights. Artemis…
DetailsIn seeking never to repeat the horrors of 9/11, Congress took the step to merge relevant civilian operations – customs, immigration, airports, nonmilitary national security and intelligence. In 2002, former senator Lee Hamilton, serving on the 9/11 Commission, said the nation needed an administrative superstar to oversee “the massive integration and unity of effort to…
DetailsI wish I could talk to my dad about the winter we didn’t have this year. Or the summer that arrived in March. Or trees and lawns so out of sync with each other they look like they’re from different biomes. It would be fascinating to get his take. Where I live — where he…
DetailsThey know exactly what they’re doing. And it’s not about “securing the vote.” It’s not about “safeguarding against voter fraud.” The SAVE Act is about Republicans in Congress peeling off enough voters to cling to power this November. Fortunately, Democrats are on democracy’s side and are blocking it in the Senate. The GOP knows it…
DetailsFor one so callow, Nick Shirley is an accomplished liar. At 23, you might call him tops in the junior circuit. Listen to the big-league liars: He’s not far from The Show — the future of today’s Republican Party. Hear JD Vance: ““This dude has done far more useful journalism than any of the winners…
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