Favorite Summer Drink in All 50 States
Alabama — Alabama Slammer
Alaska — Red Bull with glacial ice
Arizona — Alka-Seltzer
Arkansas — Milk
California — Gin and Juice
Colorado — Coors Banquet Golden Lager
Connecticut — Moscow Mule
Delaware — Coke
Florida — Mojito
Georgia — Fani Willis Grey Goose
Hawaii — Shaved ice syrup
Idaho — Dimetapp over ice with vodka and rum
Illinois — Tear Gas Martini
Indiana — Sun King
Iowa — Corn Syrup …
Election Fraud is as American as Apple Pie
Ballot-stuffing, other forms of cheating, lying, and chicanery, are all part of the traditions of our grand old democracy
Elections are games with rules, and rules are made to be broken
Anyone who tells you otherwise is full of it, or a Russian agent
“Down in Starr County, we throw out every third Republican vote.” The time was the 1970s, and the speaker was a slight acquaintance of my father who at the time was an assistant attorney general assigned to the state highway department. The visitor to our house in Austin laughed as he recounted how the all-Democratic vote-counters in Starr County would pass around ballots: “This one looks illegible to me. What do you think?”
Texans had long known that Starr County and other South Texas counties along the Rio Grande border between the US and Mexico were notorious for their electoral corruption. Since the early twentieth century, these Hispanic-majority counties had been run by Democratic bosses, both Anglos and elite Hispanics. While black Texans were prevented from voting under Jim Crow, Mexican-Americans in some counties both served in office and voted. But of fear or gratitude to the ruling local …
The Front Porch
July 4th is a traditional time to celebrate America’s republican democracy, eat hamburgers and pie, set off fireworks, and take stock of where we are at as a nation. By some measures, we are doing fantastically well — a military hyperpower with global reach powered by the world’s most advanced economic engine. Investors anywhere on earth would be foolish to sell Silicon Valley short. They would also be wrong not to take advantage of America’s thriving biotech industry, or to ignore the contributions of American farmers and fishermen and miners, or to neglect the many other fields in which American craftsmen, entrepreneurs, inventors, and engineers bring their bounty to market, often in miraculously short spans of time.
Let’s take Elon Musk for example. Musk is a modern-day Thomas Edison crossed with P.T. Barnum and Tony Stark; he’s invented electric cars and now trucks that millions of people actually pay …
