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…
DetailsWait, 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…
DetailsIn 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…
DetailsI 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.…
DetailsThe killers were silent, but the sensors at my feet were screaming out their names. I was in a plane flying over the Houston Ship Channel to see air pollution. A Baylor University scientist had invited me. The cramped single-engine had barely room for me and the sensors…
DetailsMike Pence has offered to take a polygraph. Quick. Rush a device to his side. No – there’s no chance whatsoever he’s the senior official who wrote the anonymous New York Times commentary that branded his boss petty, amoral, and consistently acting in ways “detrimental to the health of…
DetailsThe curly-haired tot bows his back and looks away, as if to attempt an escape. The woman, attempting a hug, quickly grows agitated. “I am your mommy, papi,” she says in Spanish. He squirms to get away. “What is wrong with my son?” she sobs. …
DetailsLet’s acknowledge that Ted Cruz got something right once upon a time. It happened in 2016 — when he called Donald Trump a “pathological liar” and a “sniveling coward.” Now? Cruz will hug him tightly to his chest in a few weeks when Trump goes to Texas…
DetailsOf course Donald Trump colluded. He knew what soon-to-be National Security adviser Michael Flynn was doing when Flynn met with Ambassador Sergiey Kislyak to discuss easing sanctions placed on Russia for attacks on our democratic system. Who else would ease those sanctions? Ivanka? Of course Trump…
DetailsTed Cruz, the man who went to Washington to make waves, is feeling an undertow back home. The militantly self-assured Mr. Cruz went to Washington to splash salt water in others’ faces. Now he squints into some nasty spray. Could he be the first Texas Republican to lose a statewide office since 1994? The odds…
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