AUSTIN, Texas -- Nobody else seems to be asking the obvious question about Susan B. Ralston, former administrative assistant to Jack Abramoff and, until last week, assistant to Karl Rove. She got hired by Rove at $64,700 after the 2004...
10 October 2006
AUSTIN, Texas -- I sacrificed an hour Friday evening to watch the Texas gubernatorial debate on your behalf, since I knew none of you would do it. Democrat Chris Bell looked and sounded like the only candidate who won't embarrass the state...
10 October 2006
Moments after hearing about North Korea’s nuclear test, I thought
of Albert Einstein’s statement that “there is no secret and there is no
defense; there is no possibility of control except through the aroused
understanding and insistence...
09 October 2006
With "The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism," John Nichols has produced a masterpiece that should be required reading in every high school and college in the United States. Unlike several recently published books,...
05 October 2006
AUSTIN, Texas -- The Old War Criminal is back. I try not to
hold grudges, but I must admit I have never lost one ounce of
rancor toward Henry Kissinger, that cynical, slithery,
self-absorbed pathological liar. He has all the loyalty and...
05 October 2006
Sex scandals, at least in societies dominated by guilt-sodden
Protestants, fulfill the therapeutic function usually
attributed to pleasant or exciting sex: exploration of
intimate areas of political life, surfacing "issues" normally...