This just in: Romney wins nomination!
Last week Mitt Romney crossed the magic threshold of 1,144 – the number of delegates he needs to win the GOP nomination. You didn’t think you needed a yawn, but there ... I’ve given you a chance to...
View ArticleBarack Obama: Drone Warrior
A very strange story, a 6,000-word front-page New York Times piece on how, every Tuesday, Barack Obama shuffles “baseball cards” with the pictures and bios of suspected terrorists from around the...
View ArticleNational Alzheimer's Plan deserves support
Alzheimer’s disease is progressive and destroys its victim’s mind over an agonizing period of time. There is no cure, and though some drugs may slow the process, their effectiveness is limited.
View ArticleIn 50 years, we'll all be wearing 10-gallon hats
My fascination with Texas began rather suddenly. It was the spring of 2009 — you will remember, that was the season when the political right was failing to adjust to the idea of a President Obama. And...
View ArticleObamacare and Roberts: Why did he do it?
It’s the judiciary’s Nixon-to-China: Chief Justice John Roberts joins the liberal wing of the Supreme Court and upholds the constitutionality of Obamacare. How? By pulling off one of the great...
View ArticleBoring business journalism? Not in Fort Worth
When I was hired at the Fort Worth Business Press in 2004, one of my best friends said it sounded like a good opportunity – but a boring one. It's been anything but that.
View ArticleThe human, funny side of Sally Ride
Retrospectives of Sally Ride’s life over the next few days are likely to include the words “ground-breaking,” “trailblazer,” “inspiration” and “mentor.” And rightly so. She epitomized these words and...
View ArticleStumbling toward democracy - one day at a time
If you take a few weeks off from writing a newspaper column, the ideas for subject matter accumulate and then bubble up around the brain to the point of boiling over the top.
View ArticleIs it really #NBCfail?
It’s not easy being NBC, which is touting record ratings for its first three doses of prime-time Summer Olympics coverage while at the same time getting hammered in some quarters for its time-delayed...
View ArticleThere's more to sports than meets the eye
There’s a hole in the news coverage of the Olympics.
View ArticleU.S. gymnasts are simply flawless
These women nailed landings like they were hammering spikes: Wham, boom, gasp.
View ArticleIn 2012, winning gold is women's work
Something remarkable is going on at this Olympics: Adult human males are now waiting in line for tickets to things they used to make fun of.
View ArticleIf you own a horse, vote for Mitt
It isn’t quite as catchy as the Big and Rich song “Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy),” but it’s a start on helping the presumptive Republican nominee for the presidency buck President Obama and his...
View ArticleRomney's present, Ryan's future
Vice presidential picks are always judged by their effect on the coming election. They rarely have any.
View ArticleCan we fix a hyper-partisan Congress?
Soon after I was elected to Congress, an issue came to the House floor to which I had given considerable thought and believed that my conclusions were sound, reasonable and persuasive.
View ArticleJOBS Act good news for growing businesses
It seems every new law passed in Washington, D.C., makes life tougher for small and mid-sized businesses. So what a pleasant surprise it was that Congress has passed and President Obama signed into law...
View ArticleAugusta National gains by admitting Rice, Moore
How little those newest members of Augusta National golf club, Condoleezza Rice and Darla Moore, need the clout that joining an all-male stronghold supposedly confers.
View ArticleTCU, new stadium, Big 12 bring back memories
Texas Christian University’s stunning new stadium rightfully deserves to be called the Camden Yards of college football. Amon Carter Stadium and I have a relationship that goes back almost 60 years.
View ArticleDoping campaign exposes USADA's hypocrisy
I know that Lance Armstrong beat cancer fair and square, that he’s not the mastermind criminal the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency makes him out to be, and that the process of stripping him of his titles reeks.
View ArticleBill Clinton, the reverse Clint Eastwood?
As Bill Clinton walked out onto the stage of the Democratic National Convention Sept. 5, there was love in the air.
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