Republicans in the Texas Senate have advanced a bill to post the Ten Commandments in all public classrooms. It has a twist, however. Under the bill, Commandment 8’s “thou shalt not bear false witness” will be amended with “except with elections lost by Donald Trump and attendant baseless claims of rampant voter fraud.” The truth…
Beauty is skin deep, but stupid is to the bone. I didn’t come up with that. The stupidity that today passes for governance in some places, however, inspires me to coin a term. Call it the “One Dumb Person” doctrine. Actually, credit for this thought goes to Salon’s Amanda Marcotte, blasting Florida’s new “parental rights”…
I know you are asking today: “How long will it take?” When Martin Luther King Jr. addressed that question in March of 1965, he wasn’t talking of the intractable national tragedy of gun violence, but it’s a cause he’d lead today. Three years later on an April evening, a high-powered killing device would take him…
Early vote-count results were encouraging, so he planned a victory speech. Then the tally went sour, and so did he. “It was stolen from me,” said Donald Trump. Over the next few weeks Trump pestered state officials alleging irregularities. He threatened to sue. “Fraud,” he declared without a shred of evidence. But Ted Cruz had…