Like 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,…
DetailsLast October in a Rocky Mountain fire season without end, my son got a sorrowful message. On a morning when the sky wore a sandpaper hue, he was in front of his apartment when something drifted from the sky and into his hand: A charred aspen leaf.…
DetailsRepublicans want their history laundered and starched. This apparently includes likening facilitators of life-saving medical care to Nazis. That’s what GOP Congresswoman Lauren Boebert did the other day before a red-meat CPAC audience. “Needle Nazis” were coming to the doors of unsuspecting Americans to coerce them…
DetailsThe day after Independence Day last week, Huffington Post had a fitting “tribute” to – well, let’s have HuffPost say it: “They rejected democracy. They lied. And they spent July Fourth calling themselves patriots.” Featured was a collection of gushing faux patriotism from Republicans who have shown…
DetailsThe valedictorian left the podium empty-handed, except for his hold on classmates’ hearts. The principal took away his microphone and his prepared remarks, but when grads shouted, “Let him speak,” another mic was produced and, by memory, he said all he intended. “For so long I tried…
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