The people should. Winston Churchill famously remarked that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. He was right. Yes, the process of elections is imperfect, and it occasionally produces bad results, but the alternative isn’t perfection—it’s something worse. Th…
Month: August 2014
The Rick Perry Indictment is Textbook Malicious Prosecution
Outsiders were stunned by the August 15 indictment of Gov. Rick Perry by a Travis County Grand Jury, but they shouldn’t have been. The common perception that Texas is solidly or uniformly “red” is mistaken. Yes, for the past 16 years, Texas voters have elected only Republicans to statewide…
Malicious Prosecution in the Lone Star State
The charges against Rick Perry are baseless. Outsiders were stunned by the August 15 indictment of Governor Rick Perry by a Travis County grand jury, but they shouldn’t have been. The common perception that Texas is uniformly red is mistaken. Yes, Texas voters have elected only Republicans to s…
California’s New Mandarins
Jerry Brown’s latest state Supreme Court nominee reinforces a bad trend. As expected, Governor Jerry Brown used the latest vacancy on the California Supreme Court to nominate a left-wing Latino. Last week, Brown named Mariano-Florentino (“Tino”) Cuéllar to replace Marvin Baxter, a conserva…