Opinion

The terrible floods that devastated the Hill Country last week have brought out the best in Port Aransas. Almost immediately after finding out about Kerr County’s catastrophe, locals launched efforts to help, organizing a prayer service and drives to gather donations of money and supplies for flood victims. No surprise there. Maybe some of this town’s response is motivated by […]

What’s most important to remember about the monstrous “big beautiful” bill ginned up by Trump’s Reichstag is that Republicans are just being themselves. They’ve always pined to fatten the fat cats and screw the average citizen – to take from the needy and give to the rich, like Robin Hood in reverse. None of this is new. What’s different now […]

If you really want to appreciate America, leave. That’s right. Get out. Go somewhere you’ve never been for two weeks. See how the rest of the world lives. It’s not until you travel out of the U.S. that you really learn how wonderful and great our country is. I just came back from a trip to Spain, France and Italy […]

Meeting George W. Bush was a weird experience. I found myself thinking about Bush the other day because his 79th birthday is coming up on July 6. I met Bush one day in the late 1990s, when he was governor, not long before his first term as U.S. president. At the time, I was a reporter with the Corpus Christi […]

Earlier this month, it didn’t take long for many Republicans to blame Democrats for the assassinations of Minnesota political couple Mark and Melissa Hortman. Several Republican politicians, including Vice President J. D. Vance, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, and Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise, (whose life a Black, liberal, lesbian police officer saved), blamed the shootings on the “far left” and […]

What were the Democrats in New York thinking? Eight months after being humiliated by Donald Trump, they’ve chosen a devout socialist to run for mayor of arguably the country’s most important city. Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old leftwing state senator who defeated disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, sounds like Fidel lite. But he’s already been branded a “Communist lunatic” […]