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Because Texas is governed by rational people who are patriots and revere the Constitution, there are as few COVID-19 mandates as possible in the Lone Star State. In fact, GOP Gov. Greg Abbott has [...]
Every now and again, an otherwise arcane legal topic suddenly becomes relevant to contemporary political debate. At that point, general commentary suddenly...
Editor, The Messenger, In our nation of hotly divided politics, let's get one thing straight: both Republicans and Democrats suffered in Texas due to the lack of electricity during the February cold. Why did the windmills in Texas fail in the cold weather, but those in northern states keep on giving electricity during snow storms? Because Texas chose not to spend money to winterize those Texas windmills, which, according to Newsweek, provided 23% of the electricity in Texas in 2020. Why did Texas gas lines fail during the storms? Because a lack of protection from the cold weather caused moist...
The Texas catastrophe shows how capitalism is destroying the planet The economic misery imposed on Texans demonstrates how neoliberalism has created a rigged market and a client state. In Texas this month, nature struck capitalism with such force that it created a modern parable: the parable of the people who did not want a government. The Texan energy system was designed to be self-sufficient in order to avoid US government regulation. By avoiding regulation, the state ducked any obligation to prepare the grid for extreme winter temperatures, any obligation for suppliers to actually s...
With the revelation that federal investigators were looking into New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo’s corruption with state nursing home deaths, and state Democrats setting the stage for a possible impeachment, CNN Prime Time host Chris “Fredo” Cuomo and CNN Tonight h