Traditionally, in off-year elections (those that don’t include the presidential race), voter turnout is low. Also just as traditionally, I admonish the voting public about said turnout. …
Rural America has a severe drug problem. According to figures gleaned from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) 2021 survey on nationwide drug use and …
I always have liked Texas. I was born in the state, even though life whisked me away early. Still, it has a lot going for it — a robust economy, great places, the best barbecue — and …
When U.K. rappers Harlem Spartans rapped, “Splash man down with the rambo, then I make it bang like a skeng,” they could have been describing Trump’s M.O. of saying crazy stuff with …
A guy I admire who wrote by the name of Mark Twain once defined patriotism as “supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” Twain’s …
Ronald Reagan was known for his approach to the economy, that while drawing much criticism, was based on the idea that change in all forms comes from the top. This, of course, was called …
In my last musing in this space, all three of you who read my scrawlings will recall that I spun some thoughts on Bobby Kennedy, Jr.’s outlandish statements on autistic people. That …
In his second term, Donald Trump no longer even pretends to be a president constrained by constitutional norms. In a chilling interview with The Atlantic , he boasted, "I run the country and …
Human history is a record of brilliant systems undone by the very people who built them. As artificial intelligence advances, we face not a new danger, but an old one: the certainty that we will corrupt even our greatest creations.
There’s a quiet revolution taking place behind the walls of public administration. It doesn’t wear jackboots. It doesn’t shout from podiums. It doesn’t roll tanks through city …
Another perceived tragedy, another opportunity for the mainstream media to play at gonzo journalism, mostly in an attempt to discredit the current administration. So it shouldn’t be …
I recently replied to a Facebook post a friend made about the Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Kennedy had claimed that people who eat donuts, drink soft drinks or …
We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats' …
The last firewall between democratic governance and raw authoritarianism in the United States may not be the courts. It may not be Congress. It might just be the quiet, anonymous bureaucrat with a …
Elon Musk promised us a revolution. A leaner, meaner, hyper-efficient federal government. A $2 trillion savings bonanza delivered by his Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, was supposed to be …
As Donald Trump’s current stay in the White House progresses, it occurs to me that it may not be the fascist rhetoric, the threats to the free press, or even the open admiration for dictators …
A question that once belonged to the realm of dystopian fiction now demands urgent public debate. What happens if Donald Trump invokes the Insurrection Act to enforce his rule? We’re …
Anyone that doesn’t believe that the hatred dividing is directed at one man is summarily fooling themselves. Anyone who believes that political and ideological differences are the source of the …
President Trump has proposed deporting U.S. citizens to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison, in direct violation of constitutional protections and Supreme Court precedent.
Just when I thought the federal gub’mint, under the watch of Trump-Musk had the supreme hold on idiocy in policy, well, here comes a Texas legislator to buy that old adage about “go big, …
