Stop pooh-poohing coronavirus worries
Fri, 03/13/2020 - 12:00am
The White House has been walking into a coronavirus trap.
Opinions
Coronavirus and opening day
Fri, 03/13/2020 - 12:00am
Anybody who is acquainted with me knows that I’m a baseball fan and root for my hometown team, the Nationals. Did I mention they won the World Series? It’s a new season, and opening day is coming up. This year, there’s a possibility that opening day might not happen, because we are dealing with the uncertainty of a possible pandemic caused by the new coronavirus, which is also known as Covid-19. That’s because it was identified as a new disease at the very end of 2019.
Culling the Texas ballots, round one
Fri, 03/06/2020 - 12:00am
The political caravans depart for other primary election states this week, leaving the surviving Texas candidates to sort through the results and get ready for the next stage — the quieter but important runoff elections that will decide who’ll move on to the general election.
Bernie Sanders’ skewed worldview
Fri, 03/06/2020 - 12:00am
Bernie Sanders may be on the verge of gaining an insurmountable lead in the Democratic nomination fight, but he’s not letting that get in the way of his socialist principles.
Trashing Mike Bloomberg
Fri, 03/06/2020 - 12:00am
In Las Vegas, Mike Bloomberg’s half-billion-dollar crapshoot was revealed as a load of, well, you know. Half a BILLION dollars! That’s what he will have spent before Super Tuesday, when he is first on any ballot. But even before then, his lavishly paid advisers had allowed him to participate in a debate where, unlike his saturation TV ads, the actors and actresses didn’t stick to the script. Instead, they stuck it to him, relentlessly.