It’s not supposed to get this cold in Texas, but it did. Now what?
February 2021 has been a disaster for Texas. Winter storm Uri rolled through on February 11, bringing ice, sleet, snow and sub-freezing temperatures clear to the Gulf of Mexico. The freezing weather first caused a 100-car pileup in north Fort Worth that left six people dead, then it crippled power…
We’ve got to do better. The next time may be worse.
Remember your eighth-grade civics class? You learned what a democracy is — a government run by the people. You learned what a republic is — a government that uses representatives to express the will of those people. …
Joe Biden’s Covid-19 memorial service has already started to dispel the darkness.
It took a simple gesture to begin leading the nation out of the Trump years — the lighting of two double rows of lights along the reflecting pool in front of Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
The gesture was simple, but at once also grand and poignant. It marked the…
Of course, he doesn’t know the true story of the Texas battle
Donald Trump went to Alamo, Texas, on January 12. Not the Alamo in San Antonio, but a small town on the Rio Grande named Alamo.
He went there to inspect a little bit of border wall that his administration built. But, as his niece Mary Trump posits, he hopes people…
Disgusting scene is full of images from America’s struggle for Civil Rights .
The man strides unopposed through the United States Capitol during the Trumpist insurrection on January 6. Over his left shoulder is a Confederate battle flag tacked to a dowel rod.
Behind him are depictions of three politicians who are intertwined in the story of American racism — one who championed…
If it had not been 2020, I probably would have been right.
Last year about this time I wrote a prediction for 2020: Donald Trump would win reelection. I cringed just writing it. I was deathly afraid of being right.
I based my prediction on simple incumbency advantage, rabid Trumpism, and huge dose of pessimism.
Of course, none of us regular folks…
If they can’t embrace its lessons, they don’t deserve their jobs.
This article is low-hanging fruit; a soft-target; easy pickings. Nevertheless, I persist, and I’m writing it anyway.
My thesis is simple: every member of Congress must read A Christmas Carol before they are seated in either the House or Senate. Then, they have to get booster shots of the Dickens…
Anyone who doesn’t think so never did the work to earn a doctorate.
Columnist Joseph Epstein opined in the Wall Street Journal Saturday that Jill Biden should drop the “Dr.” before her name. “ ‘Dr. Jill Biden’ sounds and feels fraudulent, not to say a touch comic,” Epstein wrote.
The only thing that’s a “touch comic” here is that Epstein had the nerve…
Insiders bet Trump won’t attend, breaking inaugural conventions.
The photo above is a model of presidential courtesy, professionalism, and succession protocol. Outgoing President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden congratulating incoming President Donald Trump at his inauguration in 2017.
We know what those men thought of Trump and his ability to assume the presidency. We know how…
It’s good to have a dog lover going back to the White House
President-elect Joe Biden slipped while playing with one of his German Shepherds, Major, on Sunday, twisting his ankle and suffering hairline fractures in his right foot. Docs say he will probably have to wear a walking boot for several weeks.
I know his foot will ache for a while, and…
