Despite what you may hear from some of his more fevered critics,
President Barack Obama's recent scandal-quakes don't appear to fall
anywhere near the level of Richard Nixon's Watergate disaster.
At great political peril, George Ryan did the right thing. Not to
canonize the man.
Well, this is a fine mess. After years of moaning about various
"conspiracies" against them, conservative activists finally have a real
piece of evidence to take before the court of public opinion.
It should've been the shot heard around the world. An ominous sort of
history was made last week near Austin, Texas, but it seems to have
largely escaped notice.
Brenda Heist wanted to run away from life. The first time I was down
there, I saw a highway sign that, for me, perfectly captured the meaning
of that place. No South, you understand.
A notable example of how Americans fall through the cracks in Census
data gathering caught my attention while Web surfing. The "one drop" is
a reference to the old racial rule that one drop of black blood in your
veins makes you black.
