They are through fighting it. But recently I read similar words from opposite sides of a long-ago war. The first were from a man who opposed the Vietnam war. The second was from a Vietnam veteran. What’s odd now is how strikingly similar their narratives sound. The man who…
So, the narrative goes like this: “Republicans are the party of racial equality. They are the party of Lincoln. Democrats tried to obstruct the civil rights initiatives of the 1960s. And, you know Martin Luther King was a Republican.” The interesting thing: This history is true, if one discounts history. Party of…
The amazing thing is that John Kuhn is what he is — a public school superintendent. Doubly amazing: His school board apparently has his back. Otherwise, what Kuhn is doing would be like dousing his career in kerosene and flicking his Bic. Kuhn, superintendent of the Perrin-Whitt Consolidated Independent School District…
“Scalia has a long history of calling for restraint on the part of unelected judges.” — Associated Press Come on, AP. That was soooo four years ago. Now? The most senior Supreme Court justice, once a man of sack cloth and restraint, wishes to wear the emperor’s clothes. …