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Take the Jen Psaki Challenge

September 1, 2025 jhorton 1
Jen Psaki, former President Obama’s Communications Director, former President Biden’s first press secretary, and current [Click for more]

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What Trump Should Do Now

August 25, 2025 jhorton 0
President Trump is to be commended for trying to broker a peace agreement between Ukraine [Click for more]

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Sickening.  Shameful.  And in the End, Useless.

August 18, 2025 jhorton 1
“Sickening.  Shameful.  And in the end, useless.”  So said an editorial in a Ukrainian newspaper [Click for more]

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Redistricting by the Numbers

August 11, 2025 jhorton 0
Since I last wrote about the Texas redistricting issue two weeks ago, both Republicans and [Click for more]

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Killing the Messenger

August 4, 2025 jhorton 0
President Trump acted legally, but not necessarily wisely, in firing the Commissioner of the Bureau [Click for more]

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The GOP’s Risky Gambit

July 28, 2025 jhorton 0
Dominating state political news are the efforts of Texas’s state legislature to redraw congressional district [Click for more]

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Who Did What with the Biden Autopen?

July 21, 2025 jhorton 0
President Biden used the presidential pardon power to grant pardons to felons as loathsome as [Click for more]

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Jeff ‘n Don:  A Match Made in H$%&

July 14, 2025 jhorton 0
Jeffrey Epstein, former financier, sex pervert, and friend of President Trump, “committed suicide” in 2019.  [Click for more]

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Voices of Reason in the Culture Wars

July 7, 2025 jhorton 0
Recently, the United States Supreme Court ruled that theologically conservative parents could withdraw their children [Click for more]

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John Cornyn, Ken Paxton, and the Republican Dilemma

June 30, 2025 jhorton 0
Current polling in the Cornyn-Paxton race for the Republican senatorial nomination shows Paxton ahead of [Click for more]

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