Back in November, David Frum, the George W. Bush speechwriter who coined the phrase “axis of evil,” wrote in New York magazine that the Republican Party had given in to a kind of mass delusion. The detachment from reality, fed by Fox “News,” right-wing talk radio, think tanks, books, and the internet have created, he wrote, “a...

In the Chron: The first rule of public speaking is “know your audience.” As former Republican National Committee chairman Lee Atwater described it, knowing a white southern audience meant using code words like “food stamps” to ingratiate oneself: Questioner: But the fact is, isn’t it, that Reagan does get to the Wallace voter...

Well, not all of them. Texas Congressman Louie “Terror Babies” Gohmert? The guy who believes the President authorized military action in Libya so that he could purposefully deplete the armed forces in order to activate his secret Obamacare army? He’s dumb. But this week’s Newsweek’s cover story, which appears under the headline...

In the Chron: The First Amendment couldn’t be clearer: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. (Emphasis added,...

In the Chron: The same people who cheered as George Bush and the Republican Congress turned the $236 billion surplus left to them by Bill Clinton into a nearly trillion-dollar deficit are this week up in arms because the Obamas spent money hosting a 2009 Halloween party for children of members of the military. The country was in the midst of a recession and the...