Trump would have been justified for attacking Iran
(Sept. 16. ) If someone more stable than Donald Trump were president, that president would be able to make a strong case for a surgical, limited, but devastating air strike against […]
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Unfair Blame: Valerie Plame Lies, Again, for Congress
(Sept. 13) For ex-CIA officer and anti-Semitic conspiracy monger Valerie Plame, who now is running for Congress in New Mexico, lies and smears apparently are fair game. Plame this week released a spectacularly […]
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Tabasco’s home island is a Louisiana pleasure dome
(Sept. 11) Tabasco sauce is apparently hot stuff for the U.S. armed forces, and Tabasco’s home site in Louisiana is a very cool place to visit. The sauce’s ubiquity in military […]
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Bard has a new award for a heroine against hate
(Sept. 12) Ten years ago today, the most courageous lady I’ve ever known in politics, Beth Rickey, died alone and broke, 1,000 miles from her Lafayette, La., home. This week, 1,300 […]
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Remembering San Antonio’s great New Orleans sound
(Sept. 5.) Since 1963, it has been strange but true that one of the best places to hear traditional, New Orleans-style jazz was 540 miles away in culturally dissimilar San […]
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Terrible media ethics: anti-Pence; pro-McCabe
Anti-Pence column jumped the nastiness shark (Sept. 9). Sometimes a column features such unmitigated, unmerited nastiness that it requires an answer for the record. Such is the case with the latest outpouring […]
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Cheaper by the dozen: 12 pensive pieces, no platitudes
Old-School college football, minus the pomp, at old Tulane (Sept. 2). When Tulane, ignoring law, let Jim Harbaugh get away (Sept. 3). For one week, these Saints were in crazy […]
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Don’t punish military parents stationed overseas
(Aug. 29) The Trump administration has just insulted our military by making it harder for some of them to gain citizenship for their children. The new “Policy Alert” promulgated by the […]
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Forgiving Bama Gov. Ivey’s blackface
(Aug. 31) It is reasonable to criticize Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey for doing a skit in blackface in college. It’s also reasonable, given that this happened half a century ago, to […]
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Brilliant centrist Artur Davis merits a public-policy home
(Aug. 29) One of the more interesting political careers in recent decades probably ended this week, but electoral defeat shouldn’t preclude many years more of public policy work for former Congressman […]
