It’s easy to deride Sen. Ted Cruz’s double standard. In fact, he is only observing a tradition of great duration. Former Sen. Phil Gramm was truly a mythical bird, decrying federal spending at every stop, then racing at the speed of an arclight to the nearest microphone to take credit for any…
DetailsThey say everything’s bigger in Texas. But most things that make it big are small. West, Texas, for instance. The name confuses. Named after a banker and sodbuster, West is in Central Texas, 25 miles north of Waco, where I spent a long time as a newsman. As everyone knows…
DetailsHow about some good news today? This year, reports Time magazine, drug cartels in Mexico stand to lose $1.4 billion. Why? Because Colorado and Washington decriminalized recreational marijuana in November. American taxpayers have been financing a drug war with costs past comprehending, and without measurable gains. Now here come voters in two states…
Details“Many people like to get larger capacity magazines simply to save time reloading while they’re at the range. “When you’re paying by the hour for range time, a lot of people do feel the need to stock up as much as possible.” America wouldn’t want to infringe on anyone’s range time. That costs…
DetailsIt never ceases to amaze — the breathtaking lack of proportionality some people have when they have it out for President Obama. Hear the screams about what it costs to protect him on a golf outing or Malia and Sasha when going anywhere. Too much. You’ve got that right. But my reading of history…
DetailsAnyone who experienced the ’60s will know this: that there actually were two ’60s. The first is routinely illustrated in film — flower power, long hair, Age of Aquarius, protests, all that. The second Sixties — what most of us experienced — wasn’t any of that. Protest was as foreign as…
DetailsListen to Dan Patrick destroy his guests. Try to get a word in edgewise; he’ll not only cut you off, he’ll slice you into cold cuts. Patrick is a Houston radio talk-show host. To catch his act, however, you don’t have to give his AM ratings a bump, something I’ll not facilitate. Just…
DetailsYou wondered if tea party Republicans cared about the little people. You should have heard those in Washington plead for victims of a federal austerity horror. White House tours: canceled. Colorado’s three GOP congressmen were voice-raw over this. They had promised tours to vacationing constituents. Sequestration squelched that. …
DetailsWhat the March 4 Time lacks in its explosive expose about the hospital industry is a face. A perspiring face. A blinking, flinching face. Dear do-nothing Congress: You say you care about things that affect everyday Americans. Well, then, find us such a face. We need someone on whose thieving visage we…
DetailsJesse Hagopian is doing more than teaching history. He is answering history’s call. With Hagopian in the lead, most of the teachers at Seattle’s Garfield High School have made recent history’s most important statement about what drags down public education in 2013. They have refused to give the test. …
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