Archive for June 2026

This is an interesting story in the Chron today. See this: The White House-inspired redistricting plan in Texas may be inadvertently helping James Talarico’s chances of winning a U.S. Senate seat in ways that the Democrat himself would have been hard-pressed to pull off by himself. For decades, statewide Democratic candidates have struggled to figure…

At least the fellow admits that he sucked up big time, err never mind, See this from the Chron: U.S. Sen. John Cornyn went so far as to push legislation renaming a highway for President Donald Trump as he sought the president’s endorsement in his hotly contested runoff with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.  Now he says…

From AP: CBS News fired longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley on Tuesday, a day after he reportedly said Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss was “murdering the show” and accused its new producer of having “slender qualifications” for the job. The move deepened the turmoil at the nation’s most influential TV news program, days after a leadership overhaul. Pelley, 68, criticized…

This is from the lead story on the front page of the hard copy of the Chron today: In the days after the primary runoff, Gov. Greg Abbott was urgently working to mend fences among the state’s fractured GOP and sounding the alarm to supporters that they need to take this cycle seriously. He called on…

Former First Lady Dr. Jill Biden was interviewed by Craig Melvin on “Today” this morning. See the featured photo. She is selling a book. She is just reminding us of her bumbling husband during the last year of his term. Sad. _____ On “What’s Your Point?” yesterday, no one really pushed back on cheating, crooked…