A forty-five second video entry in a sweepstakes won me a ticket to cover the 2012 Republican National Con- vention with CNN. I quickly found myself in a whirlwind — not Hurricane Isaac, but the crazed, fast-paced world of TV news. I’d always been skeptical of the existence of media bias, but not after this...
Mitt Romney hires guys who know stuff. He made a career out of it at Bain Capital. That’s why he hired Paul Ryan to be his vice-president. Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan works as a running mate because he has mas- tered a subject crucial to addressing the federal government’s problems. He’s explaining baseline budget- ing to...
A famous scene from the 1978 film “Animal House” shows a groggy and defeated Bluto (John Belushi) lying on the battered carpet of his Delta Fraternity living room. Staring wide- eyed into space in a moment of sheer existential angst, he laments, “Seven years of college down the drain. Might as well have joined the f——...
The superiority of Texas has long been accepted as a fact by those fit to judge. And of course, the only such people are Texans.
The Center for Disease Control recently launched “Tips from Former Smokers,” an anti-smoking advertisement campaign expected to help about 50,000 smokers quit.