It was a bad day for President Fear and the folks at Fox News. They had planned jointly to set pheromones aflame with high-decibel sounds about a caravan of people headed to our borders from Honduras. Oh, my: people in brown skin coming to do terrible things…
Wherever the Republican Party’s demographics were going before Trump, they have become, in the words of Procol Harum, a whiter shade of pale. Before Trump, the pallor of the Grand Old Party was one of those unspoken conditions, like Granddad’s nose hairs. Now its overt whiteness and overt racism have become…
Wait, Florida Gov. Rick Scott: On whose information did you rely? You told Floridians to expect catastrophic storm surges from Hurricane Michael, as high as 12 feet. That proved to be correct. But where did you get that? Could it have been people who study weather? Or was…
In Colorado, where polls show Democrat Jared Polis leading the governor’s race, Republican Walker Stapleton has all sorts of names for him: socialist, radical, dangerous. Polis’s ads, by contrast, have just this for his rival: “Trump’s yes man.” That should do. Indeed, such word association is working…
I used to think that the way Texas seated judges was the worst. Last week, watching the steam pour from Brett Kavanaugh ears, I changed my mind. Our nation’s founders had what appeared to be a great idea – lifetime, presumably nonpartisan, appointments based on Senate confirmation.…