So odd for Greg Abbott to parse words. The Texas attorney general said he didn’t call Planned Parenthood a terrorist group. He just said the law should treat it like one. Regardless, the Fifth Circuit Court dismissed the comparison and put the kibosh on a destructive law that would do nothing but impede women’s…
DetailsTime magazine recently had a jointly inspiring and confused commentary on what’s wrong with education. The thing on which we’ll focus here is what’s inspiring. In the meantime, we need to dispel some confusion. Time’s Joe Klein makes an impassioned statement on behalf of vocational education, which scandalously has shrunk from the scene in public schools in…
DetailsA funny thing about that dreaded “sense of entitlement” deemed so pervasive today: Those who complain the most about it often have the least reason to complain. This is true whether the topic is food stamps, affirmative action, or any number of means of helping those on society's margins. For every…
DetailsFalse prophets, says the Book of Matthew, are those who “come at you in sheep’s clothing,” but who “inwardly are ravenous wolves.” Congressman Paul Ryan, a Catholic, tells us his call to gut social programs is in keeping with his faith, and is endorsed by his pope. This would be a damning…
DetailsThey are through fighting it. But recently I read similar words from opposite sides of a long-ago war. The first were from a man who opposed the Vietnam war. The second was from a Vietnam veteran. What’s odd now is how strikingly similar their narratives sound. The man who…
DetailsSo, the narrative goes like this: “Republicans are the party of racial equality. They are the party of Lincoln. Democrats tried to obstruct the civil rights initiatives of the 1960s. And, you know Martin Luther King was a Republican.” The interesting thing: This history is true, if one discounts history. Party of…
DetailsThe amazing thing is that John Kuhn is what he is — a public school superintendent. Doubly amazing: His school board apparently has his back. Otherwise, what Kuhn is doing would be like dousing his career in kerosene and flicking his Bic. Kuhn, superintendent of the Perrin-Whitt Consolidated Independent School District…
Details“Scalia has a long history of calling for restraint on the part of unelected judges.” — Associated Press Come on, AP. That was soooo four years ago. Now? The most senior Supreme Court justice, once a man of sack cloth and restraint, wishes to wear the emperor’s clothes. …
DetailsIt’s the oddest form of echo. Not a retort. Not a reasoned rejoinder. The only way we can describe it is in terms of speech pathology. Listen, and explain it to me. Fox News host Geraldo Rivera says the issue in the Trayvon Martin tragedy is the hoodie he wore. So compelling is…
DetailsIt says something that we haven’t a proper term for what likely caused Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales to do what he is accused of doing over there — the land where we sent him to war. If we just call it insanity, we risk implicating war itself. And that can’t…
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