Shades of 1965: white fright on a Southern roadside. I wonder how many Texans drive by the billboard along Interstate 35 and remember another billboard long ago targeting Martin Luther King Jr. The one that stands these days just south of Waco bears a menacing black-and-white photo of Barack Obama, and the…
It’s not the dollar-driven cottage industry that denying evidence about global warming has become, but stay tuned. With budget savings in view, the full-court press is on in state legislatures to deny that smaller class sizes help students do better. Tight state budgets are forcing the “science,” the rationalizing of larger…
The e-mail seemed frantic, even for these people. “Assassin is liberal.” So pronounced Bear Witness, a group that calls itself a proud member of the Tea Party Network, in an e-mail to the press. It pointed out that an ex-classmate said the man with the gun in Tucson was left-leaning. And, look:…
The scandal shook a state to its boots — payoffs, lies, conspiracy, all involving people who, said one observer, “convinced themselves the rules didn’t apply to them.” Ah, but the scoundrels got caught. That would teach a football program to test the NCAA. That black mark on human history was…