Last night I went to see James Talarico, Candidate for US Senate, speak in Lakeway.  The crowd was in the hundreds, not a packed house but definitely full.  The evening completely turned my head around about the senate race.  There’s been a lot of head spinning in this race since Rep. Jasmine Crockett jumped into the ring a week ago, after Collin Allred left the Senate race and pursued a newly gerrymandered US Congressional Seat.   Selfless of Collin and I wish him well.  But

Last weekend, actor/director Rob Reiner and his wife were killed in their home, allegedly by their drug-addicted son. In typical unfeeling and tasteless fashion, Trump claimed he was the cause. “He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump,” he posted on social media. In a diametrically different response, Heather Cox Richardson paid homage to the fallen director by quoting the words of the President from his iconic film, The A

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