I’ve been spending the past several days in Ohio covering the primary, or “Super Tuesday 3” as some pundits and, I would imagine, Don King are playing it up.Long-time Scaiaholics know that I grew up in Ohio. In fact, I’m pretty sure my network sent me because they knew I’d stay at my mom’s…
I’ve spent much of the past week in Houston. This was not by choice. I was there to cover the Texas primary.In fact, my instinct is to say that when Texas joined the union in 1846, James Polk said, “All right. We’ll let them in.” Then he leaned in to Vice President George Dallas and said, “Except…
Last week, I spent time in Laredo for a presidential campaign event with Donald Trump.No matter how you feel about politics, Donald Trump’s hat earned a lot of attention, perhaps more than Trump himself. The reporters spent quite a bit of time discussing the hat with each other (and tweeting about it).It might seem strange that he…
The other day, I was walking out of Kroger. It was the one near TCU where all the students shop, but it still looks presentable because it’s near the Colonial and I often see a lot of wealthy-looking older fellows with stately gray hair walking around with rotisserie chicken and maybe a bottle of wine.I, meanwhile, had…
The Texas Democratic Party convention takes place this weekend in Dallas. The Democrats come to town confident that they’ll present a unified voice that’ll stand in opposition to a Republican party that’s deeply divided between moderates and ideologues.The Republicans fire back, saying all is well within the party. In the Democrats’ defense, I did watch as…
The hullaballoo over Wendy Davis’ exposure as the first politician in American history to bend the truth got me to thinking: I should clear up some misconceptions about my own personal story before the Dallas Morning News does it for me.I also pledge to make more of my events open to the press.Wendy Davis, of course, isn’t…
You may have heard about his woman who got fired from her job for posting a blog of “confessions”. You can go somewhere else to find a debate over whether she’s a courageous truth-teller or a narcissistic dimwit.I wonder if this lady was fired for her blog post alone. She doesn’t…