Marble Falls A headline in the news said that the great state of Texas was moving to allocate $1-billion to a voucher program there. One red state after another has tried to skim dollars away from public education support to support private education, largely through church-based schools or pick-up places, based on a …
Swallowing the Ask and Negotiating from Weakness
Marble Falls It’s not often all of us in the cheap seats get a ringside view of what big time negotiations look like, especially between nation states, but we’re getting an huge eyeful, courtesy of Trump and his tariff tantrums. The whole world watched with some degree of horror as he huffed and …
The Deportation El Salvador Charade
Marble Falls Anyone who believes the White House performance that President Trump and President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador put on was anything other than a charade is fooling themselves. If that’s not the case, they’re smoking something illegal, and I have a bridge across the Mississippi River that I would love to …