Chris Christie should denounce Greg Abbott over Ted Nugent
I wrote months ago that Greg Abbott, Republican front-runner in the campaign for governor of Texas, is accident prone and will make huge mistakes that will give Wendy Davis a better chance of winning...
View ArticleGeorge Kennan on the decline of American power
“I don’t really even need George Kennan right now,” President Obama said recently in a New Yorker interview. Harvard historian Niall Ferguson responded "... a George Kennan is exactly what he needs:...
View ArticleTea Party Texas
In Texas, the lieutenant governor is almost as powerful as the governor, serving at the head of the state Senate, which requires 21 out of 31 votes to bring anything to the floor. Quite simply, if the...
View ArticlePence offers a blueprint for America's future
I've long thought that President Thomas Jefferson's creative vision was for an America which hasn't been born yet. That we had repudiated Jefferson in favor of Alexander Hamilton's view of one world...
View ArticleTexas Democrats: Not as impotent in Austin as you might think
Texas Democrats have not won a statewide election since 1994 and hold only a little more than a third of the seats in the Texas House of Representatives and Senate. Given this reality, it would be...
View ArticleEthnic political hacks snub their own
Some years ago, Hispanic Republican state legislators reached a high water mark of five members in the California State Assembly (out of 80 members). When they gathered for breakfast, they were a de...
View ArticleFlorida's free money for millionaire politicians
Florida is the third-largest state in the United States. It voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, albeit in 2012 by less than 1 percent of the vote. Having been key to Obama's two victories, one...
View ArticleConstitutional convention idea gaining steam
The call for impeachment is a cry from the heart, I said here on July 11, but something must be done. Texas, Arizona and most of the middle states will see their economies, cultures and way of living...
View ArticleDemocrats must denounce the Rick Perry indictment, and the rush to judgment...
Democrats know a lot about criminalizing the political process — and the terrible consequences to our nation and our democracy when it happens.We saw it happen again and again in the 1990s, after...
View ArticleThe new states' rights
Let's not fool around. Let's call it what it is, the attempt by the national Republican Party and its state parties to do everything in their power to minimize and squash the Democratic Party vote and...
View ArticleA Maryland tax break for 'middle class millionaires'
Gubernatorial candidate Larry Hogan (R) has a television ad declaring that more than half of Maryland's residents would leave the state if they could, because of heavy taxation and government...
View ArticleThe 11 new governors should listen to the people
Two weeks ago, 10 gubernatorial candidates won their elections. Bill Walker (I) in Alaska had to wait a bit longer to find out about the successful outcome of his race. That means that 11...
View ArticleGreg Abbott, the 10th Amendment and the great state of Texas
"States' rights, states' rights, states' rights!"— Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), April 15, 2009, at the AlamoThe most conspicuous symptom of American decline is the sallying forth of two well-known...
View ArticleObama and the 26 governors
Govs. Greg Abbott (R) of Texas and Gary Herbert (R) of Utah have about as much control over their destiny today as Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce did in the Pacific Northwest in the 1870s. But a sea...
View ArticleA 'humbled' Rahm Emanuel? Probably not
I guess Paddy Bauler was right: "Chicago ain't ready for reform." The legendary alderman said it decades ago, but it sure seems to apply today. Rahm Emanuel (D) won a second term for mayor, but it was...
View ArticleIs Schwarzenegger's 'good and global commonwealth' ready?
Shouldn't a very large country such as ours begin to think of a singular presidency and its vast federal apparatus as training wheels, which would come off once we had fully matured?Centralized...
View ArticleThe Confederate flag comes down, the Gadsden flag goes up
Random acts, lone gunmen, half-mad political agents like John Brown, do indeed have the ability to awaken the world. They go where others fear to tread — deep into the dark reaches of the unconscious,...
View ArticleMinnesota Democrats target rural vote for 2016 state legislative fights
In modern healthcare, the MRI has a wide range of applications in medical diagnosis. And in Minnesota, Democrats are using a new candidate training program aimed at winning rural votes to cure that...
View ArticleBlue America and 'Greater Canada'
Ready for the big constitutional convention? The call for a constitutional convention has been around for awhile, but has been heating up recently. Former Gov. Jeb Bush (R) supports a convention. So...
View ArticleHow a controversial candidate can wind up representing 1.8 million Texans
Texas State Board of Education candidate Mary Lou Bruner has generated more than her fair share of controversy, with Facebook posts intimating, among other things, that while living in New York,...
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