"I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order to stab him. A general substitution of knives for guns would promote physical fitness. We'd turn into a whole nation of great runners. Plus, knives don't ricochet. And people are seldom killed while cleaning their knives."

Molly Ivins

Yes women will die because in desperation many seek back alley abortions. But many of the ones who live will still vote for Rs.

"The GOP's continuing anxiety to curry favor from Trump testifies to its evolution into a lawless party. It has absorbed Trump's authoritarian values and methods, meaning anything is legitimate if it is in the service of gaining and maintaining power."

Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Their failure to pursue this claim is an abdication of their duty to local taxpayers.
#10 | Posted by JOE

Texas is heavily R. They're not going to sue their guru. It's a way for the city to force taxpayers to make a campaign contribution to the orange turd.

He was just exercising his Second Amendment rights.

We can fly an electric helicopter on Mars but you can't run your dishwasher in Texas.

That's because scientists are in charge on Mars and Republicans are in charge in Texas.

The court lost any claim to legitimacy when it stopped the Floriduh recount and appointed Shrub President.

What did Jesus say about abortion, the favorite subject of Jeffress and the rest of the evangelical movement? Nothing. What does the Bible say about abortion, a practice as old as civilization? Nothing. Not one word.

Chris Ladd

It's sure not hard to tell who is a Russian troll.

Abbott spent $4.2 to fire up the base. Why is that hard to understand?

"The genius of the "big lie" was not only that it sparked a movement that ended up with January 6 to physically allow him to stay in office. But psychologically the "big lie" was very important because it prevented his propagandized followers from having to reckon with the fact that he lost. And it maintains him as their hero, as their winner, as the invincible Trump, but also as the wronged Trump, the victim. Victimhood is extremely important for all autocrats. They always have to be the biggest victim."

Ruth Ben-Ghiat

"The GOP's continuing anxiety to curry favor from Trump testifies to its evolution into a lawless party. It has absorbed Trump's authoritarian values and methods, meaning anything is legitimate if it is in the service of gaining and maintaining power."

Ruth Ben-Ghiat

"It's easy to finger-point and assign blame, and getting lathered up with opinions can be kind of fun. But digging out the truth would be better for all of us."

Allen Best

It doesn't matter. He will blow the court order off and not pay a dime.

Everybody needs to remember that the Texas inspections were just checking tires, brakes, and so forth. Things the Feds were already checking. Texas was not looking at contents. It was all just a political stunt.

"Abbott's inspections looked only at basic vehicle safety, such as the trucks' tires and brakes and lights " not their contents."

It will end when they start getting disbarred.
#4 | Posted by techres

I wish that were true. Unfortunately I don't think that would even slow them down. They'd just claim it was the "deep state" persecuting them. Sigh.

"How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him"

Paul Muad'Dib

The orange turd has made it OK for Rs to do this. If women don't like it they'd better vote for someone else.

NFTs seem like the most transparent scam of my lifetime since pet rocks and scientology.
#3 | Posted by moder8

At least with a pet rock you had some real that you could touch.

"We believe that basic to governmental integrity are unimpeachable ethical standards and irreproachable personal conduct by all people in government. We shall continue our insistence on honesty as an indispensable requirement of public service. We shall continue to root out corruption whenever and wherever it appears."

Republican Party Platform of 1956

"As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office."

Molly Ivins

The fundamental reason is really simple: poor people don't make bribes, excuse me, I meant campaign contributions. Everything in the tax code stems from that.

"Forced worship stinks in God's nostrils."

Roger Williams, banished from Massachusetts for denying Puritan authority

Texas is a good thing. It reminds the rest of the country what will happen to them if the Republicans ever get back in power.

...one, and only one, of our major parties has been going crazy for twenty years and is now having a full-fledged gibbering, I'm-The-Emperor-of-Antarctica breakdown. It is hard not to feel just a touch of schadenfreude about this. The Republicans have served up eight years of hatred and nihilism"and now they are surprised to find they have inherited hatred and nihilism as they actually appear in the real world, not neatly blown-dry and smirking but red and orange and heaving, cursing and swearing and contemptuous.

Adam Gopnik