| Nov 14, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyYou know it’s a good election night when Karl Rove throws a hissy fit on national television. It came just after 11pm, when the man known as George W. Bush’s “architect” heard a TV network declare Obama the winner in Ohio. This wasn’t...
| Oct 24, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyAt my age, I thought I’d seen pretty much everything — and I’ve been to the carny sideshow at the Texas State Fair twice. But now comes a Houston-based, tea-party outfit calling itself True the Vote. It claims to be dedicated to sniffing out...
| Oct 10, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyIf in charge, You’d like to stay; Keep others home, On election day. In some nations, the government is committed to getting everyone out to vote. Some of our states, like California, have special voter protection acts aimed at the same goal. But elsewhere, it...
| Oct 3, 2012 | Cartoon|Economy / Business
| Aug 27, 2012 | Economy / BusinessEd Gillespie, a senior adviser to Mitt Romney, recently declared on Face the Nation that that President Barack Obama “is hostile to job creators,” reciting a standard Republican canard. Especially since movements such as Occupy Wall Street began shining a...