This excerpt below is from The Texas Tribune which is doing a great job telling the story of Texas politics. That story is often gob-smackingly nutso, as you can see in the excerpt below. You can read the entire article here. Sen. Angela Paxton files bill that would allow her husband, Texas Attorney General…
Details“Amazon paid no federal taxes on $11.2 billion in profits last year” This headline appeared in the Washington Post today. Following are excerpts from the article. “Amazon, the e-commerce giant helmed by the world’s richest man, paid no federal taxes on profit of $11.2 billion last year. . . “ “Amazon actually received a federal…
DetailsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez This is probably why freshman lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez grates on the good ol’ boys club in Congress. Watch this short but riveting video in which she uses a little game of Q & A to create a brutal takedown of Congress’ absurd campaign finance laws. This sharp-witted clarity revealing the ruse behind the…
DetailsKaren Tumulty’s column, Where the Hunt for Voter Fraud is Worse Than the Crime Itself, in today’s Washington Post, points to an underlying reason for the Republicans’ Chicken Little squawking about “voter fraud”. That is, the double-digit turnout in the recent midterm elections is a bright red flag for the Republican good ol’ boys in…
Details“BATON ROUGE, La. — It was a squabble over $2.9 million in property-tax breaks — small change for Exxon Mobil, a company that measures its earnings by the billions. But when the East Baton Rouge Parish school board rejected the energy giant’s rather routine request last month, the “no” vote went off like a bomb…
DetailsTexas Republicans Hit With Another Lawsuit Over ‘Unfounded Voter Purge’ GOP efforts to codify the disastrous investigation would also likely spur lawsuits. BACK
DetailsHere are a couple of new articles from the Opinion page of today’s New York Times that are worth our serious consideration. As I’ve mentioned before, if you want to get a good sense for how the Times’ readership feels about an article, go to their comments section and click on Reader’s Picks. You might be…
Details“that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the U.S., 1933-45 BACK
DetailsHenry Wadsworth Longfellow1807-82 “If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.” outre-mer, 1833-4 BACK
Details“And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands; and let us see that we learn to take it without letting fall too much of what…
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