Last night, The Washington Post’s Rachael Bade looked at the standoff between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the progressive Democrats over impeaching Donald Trump. Bade pointed out that the momentum for impeachment has stalled out because Pelosi quashed it and that members of her caucus are… Read more

The American legal profession has a huge problem — it fails address that the most corrupted of its flock remain licensed and can label themselves “lawyer” and/or “attorney.” Read more

If I had any doubts about posting an open letter to Greg Abbott, his tweet this morning erased those doubts. He posted something that is, essentially, saying Texas isn't part of the United States. It borders on treason. Here's what he tweeted, "Texas tells Nancy Pelosi & her Congressiona… Read more

Two posts on Facebook summarized the war on women and children by the misogynistic Republicans who seem to have overrun southern politics — again. Read more

The Republicans have pivoted to health care as a way to energize its ignorant base. The GOP cult leader, Donald Trump, named Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) to be the point person on this effort that is to occur after the 2020 election. Read more

Enough! Read more

One would have to be far off the grid to be unaware of the despicable behavior of students of the all-male Covington Catholic High School at the Indigenous Peoples March in Washington on Friday. A video gone viral showed teenage boys, later identified as students of the school in Kentucky, w… Read more

Folks, if you want an example of how dangerous Rep. Michael Cloud and his staff are, look no further than his correspondence. The newly elected member of Congress, ostensibly representing all of his constituents, has for the second time, sent me a letter thanking me for taking a position tha… Read more

Sunday evening, I got an e-blast from Michael Cloud. I know many of the Advocate’s readers support him. I don’t and what I wrote him explains, in part, why: Read more

Words have meaning and leadership influences followers. Just like the head of a company who sets up the corporate culture, so too does a political leader for his or her followers and for the entire constituency. Read more

An Open Letter to Mike Huckabee Read more

The news about the upcoming election is getting worse — and I am not surprised. Read more

A woman who I deeply respect as a dear friend and journalism colleague has chastised me for labeling as enemies Trump and those supporting Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to a seat on the United States Supreme Court. Her rebuke — as mild and as kind as it was — forced me to think about why I’… Read more

My long time followers dating back to my days running my own investigative weekly newspaper in Amarillo know not only that I predicted what we’re seeing with the Trump “presidency” and the Republican-controlled Congress. In short, my views of the Republican Party evolved from seeing it as an… Read more

The Texas State Board of Education has, once again, made a mockery of itself by when it cast preliminary votes to eliminate the contributions to our nation by Helen Keller and Hillary Clinton. The claim was these changes were to "streamline" the curricula. That, of course, is bogus — an inst… Read more

Sen. John McCain’s death from brain cancer last week will, as others pointed out, change the nature of the United States Senate. His was one of the few voices in the Republican Party to openly oppose and criticize the illegitimate president, Donald Trump. After all, what the late senator end… Read more

Remember when Hillary Clinton asserted her political career and 2016 campaign was undercut by “a vast right-wing conspiracy?” Of course, people on the right scoffed and those on the left agreed. But, was there any evidence that Clinton was right? And if evidence existed, was it credible? Read more

It didn’t take long for Michael Cloud to show his true colors. Like almost every Republican, he was sworn in and immediately went to the United States House of Representatives Republican Cloakroom to have his spine removed. And, what little is left of his intellectual honesty cratered when h… Read more

Yeah, it’s been a while. I know my two devoted followers have missed me. Right? Read more

 Mark Twain and Rick Steves, the latter a major travel writer and entrepreneur emphasizing European travel, agree that travel out of country broadens one’s horizons. And this late in life, I find that to be true. We’ve just returned from a two-week trip to Ireland, our second in less than two years. As with the previous one in 2016, I learned a great deal and observed how the Irish (and others in Europe) do things better. They are things from which we can learn. Read more

Revelations about the right wing, the Trump administration, the Republican Party and the right-wing echo chamber keep flowing over us like a ruptured sewerage pipe pouring into our democratic republic. Here are a few examples of what feces that sewerage contains. Read more

Dear Ted, Read more