I feel for you, Sam Alito. Decades ago when dragging my skin-and-bones college freshman self back to the dorm at suppertime, if I smelled fish sticks wafting through the air, I immediately calculated the cost to escape to a pizza or burger place. So I understand how a Supreme Court justice could feel the same…
A recent poll finds only two of 10 Republicans think Donald Trump should be charged with the crimes for which he was indicted in Florida. It’s all political, they say, all Joe Biden’s doing. They don’t dare say that a grand jury authorized it, and 37 criminal charges, as with his criminal indictment in Manhattan.…
We have been remodeling our property. The ketchup stains are gone. The glass shards at the Capitol, too. The former tenant who’s given a bad name to scoundrels everywhere has been replaced by someone who honors the place with his demeanor and sense of history. We Americans can feel good about the changes on the…
“A toast — to the Texas Legislature.” The Republican strategists lifted their cocktails high. What a session — a brutal blitzkrieg against a helplessly microscopic segment of constituents who barely have a voice: transexuals. Mass shootings? A fatally flawed electric grid? Schools gasping for funding? Texas Republicans could, in all good conscience, put them aside.…