The Huck Upchuck

Kingfishery & Kingcakery - The Republicans in the State of Louisiana finally wake up and propose the ONLY effective GOP challenge to S...

Kingfishery and Kingcakery - As expected, the Times-Picayune has a follow up story on the Lynn Dean affair. (See below.) The backtrackin...

Kingfishery and Kingcakery - State Sen. Lynn Dean, R-Caernarvon, in a moment of candor, publicly admits what everyone familiar with life ...

Cuaderno Latinoamericano - It seems as if the peace in Guatemala is fading . What a tragedy. It is shameful and heartbreaking that the le...

Lagniappe - An interesting take on the Scowcroft flap by Martin Schram. The non-judgmental nature of Schram's piece gives his specula...

Liberal Lighthouse - The New Republic has just posted online the Notebook article I referenced and cited in full below entitled "The ...

Liberal Lighthouse - Paul Krugman's editorial in today's New York Times takes aim at the "fake populism" of GW. Accord...

School Board - I cannot refrain from commenting on the recent uproar surrounding UNC Chapel Hill's Summer Reading Program. (The details...

Cuaderno Latinoamericano - A recent poll conducted by Latinobarometro, a Chilean polling firm, shows that Latin Americans are very patient ...

Cuaderno Latinoamericano - Mexico is inching along towards constitutional reform that would open up the energy sector of the economy to gre...

Lagniappe - Can what Bob Herbert reports in his column for The New York Times really be true about the manslaughter conviction of three m...

Liberal Lighthouse - Maureen Dowd's editorial today in the New York Times takes aim at the Bush-daddy/Bush-son relationship. This ti...

School Board - Barry Siegel, an LA Times staff writer, tells the story of honor student and star swimmer Taylor Hess's year-long expu...

The Weak in (National) Review presents: "Impromptoupees" , where we look at whether there is any cranial substance to the zinger...

The Weak in (National) Review presents: "Halo K-Lo" - comments on the “ex cathedra” pronouncements of Kathryn Jean Lopez. This...

School Board - I'm still baffled and angry about the pulling of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird , ...

Liberal Lighthouse - In the "Notebook" section of The New Republic (page 9 of the August 19 & 26, 2002, issue), there is a l...

School Board - Censorship rears its ugly head in the Plaquemines Parish school library system. Apparently, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mock...

School Board - Just a quick point to ponder about the School Voucher debate: It's a very nice thought that School Vouchers equals Schoo...

Liberal Lighthouse - The latest from Molly Ivins on the Bush Economic Forum. The column's everything you might expect it to be; but hi...