| Feb 21, 2024 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyHere’s our big word of the day: extraterritoriality. It expresses a sketchy legal theory asserting that rulers in one state have a right to enforce their laws in another state. Its most prominent was in the infamous Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which required officials...
| Jan 31, 2024 | Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyIn the 1980s, many Texans were alarmed that hordes of immigrants were fleeing Rust Belt states and pouring across the Red River to take our jobs. So my friend Steve Fromholz recommended a big beautiful wall across our northern border to keep them out. Fromholz, a...
| Oct 25, 2023 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedThere is nothing quite as pitiful as whiny billionaires. And the whiniest of all is the richest — Elon Musk. This self-entitled bully runs over anyone in his way, then whines when they protest. Elon’s latest high-pitched screech was prompted by public demands that his...
| Sep 13, 2023 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyBack to school! Bright-eyed youngsters are now back in our public classrooms, filled with questions about the world around them. Questions like: What happened to our school library? And where did our librarians go? Sadly, these wholly beneficial, caring educators are...
| Apr 19, 2023 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIt’s always instructive to hear powerful political officials declare that in the name of democracy, they must usurp the people’s democratic authority. This has become all too common, as even so-called democratic regimes in France and Israel have infuriated their...