AUSTIN, Texas -- It was horrible and sickening, but I could not
stop watching the final days of the Texas Legislature. Fellow Texans, the
ripple effects of this disaster will come to haunt us all.
By now, it's a media ritual. Whenever the U.S. government raises
the alert level for terrorism -- as when officials announced the orange
code for "high risk" on May 20 -- local, regional and national news
stories assess the dangers and...
BOISE, Idaho -- When last we left the saga of Texas' few living
elected Democrats, they had fled the state pursued by minions of the law --
legislators on the lam. These courageous citizens, fleeing vile Republican
oppression in their...
AUSTIN, Texas -- They just went too far, that's all. This
session of the legislature has been as brutal, callous and indifferent to
the welfare of the weakest, the most frail, youngest and oldest Texans as it
is possible to get...
AUSTIN, Texas -- "We ought to be beating our chests every day.
We ought to look in a mirror and be proud, and stick out our chests and suck
in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans!'" -- Jay Garner, retired
general and the man in...