In a New York courtroom, freedom of the press is being juxtaposed with the freedom to lie. Freedom to lie to subvert an election. Freedom to lie to aid the chief patron of a gold-digging cable network. Donald Trump’s Big Lie — and his covey of…
DetailsWaves of guilt crash over me. Summer is over, and I’m giddy. Giddy and feeling guilty. No one should celebrate the end of summer – its sights, its smells, its adventures. But this summer and the last were horrible. I wonder if it will be that…
DetailsWhat kind of science did Bob Enyart peddle? Whatever the strain, it killed him. It wasn’t cross-over equine science – the wonders of horse dewormer. It wasn’t Clorox tonic or one dose too many hydroxychloroquine. It was just anti-vax, anti-fact quackery. On weekly broadcasts of his…
DetailsOnly in the Supreme Court does the majority consistently make policy in Washington. And most of that majority was nominated by presidents who got fewer votes than their rivals. A solid majority of Americans – 58 percent today (Gallup) — consistently opposes a ban on abortion. Yet a…
DetailsLike Afghanistan, Vietnam was a bipartisan debacle. From Kennedy to Johnson to Nixon to Ford. Wait. Ford? Gerald – yeah. The “accidental president” was the one who, like Joe Biden, made the call to end a futile and interminable war, then presided over the chaos that followed.…
DetailsTetanus. Polio. Measles. Mumps and rubella. These are vaccinations Texas required of my sons before they started school in the ’80s. Over the years, Hepatitis B. Chickenpox and Hepatitis A were added to the requirements. Ten years ago the Texas Legislature appended meningitis to the list. …
DetailsThis just in: The author of “The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future” says he never said global warming was a hoax. That would be Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, who still is not interested in doing anything about the problem, even if it isn't a…
DetailsAcross many years living in Texas and commenting on education, I often railed against homeschoolers. Not homeschoolers in general, just the ones sitting on the state school board. Yes, people with no stake in our schools — even outright antipathy toward them — governing them. Which sounds…
DetailsIt is possible to low-ball even Donald Trump’s threshold for corruption. I did. When reports showed he sought to extort Ukraine to torpedo Joe Biden’s candidacy, the assumption – my assumption – was that Trump had demanded an investigation of his most-likely Democratic rival. Wrong. What Trump…
DetailsHardy har har. Increasing numbers of Floridians are dying of a newly invigorated virus, and Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to make puns of Anthony Fauci’s name. Yuckety yuck. Amid a resurgence of death and devastation, Marco Rubio wants to mock face coverings – again. Chortle,…
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