Unca Darrell

MAY 27 / More credit

THE RESIDENT ADULT was on duty at the Houston Chronicle editorial board today. He wrote a respectful essay on Memorial Day. It is well worth a read.

In olden times this act of simple decency and civic engagement which would have been dog bites man. In the Year of Our Lord 2013, however -- and especially at the Houston Chronicle -- it is exceptional and worthy of remark and appreciation. 

Not so for . . . 

MAY 26 / Remind the people . . .

to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be . . .

MAY 24 / Waving the bloody shirt, Chronicle style

WITHIN MINUTES after the Oklahoma disaster, Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse indecently blamed Republicans and, to my ear, conservative southerners.

When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover. And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn't just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas. It hits Rhode Island with floods and storms. It hits Oregon with acidified seas. It hits Montana with dying forests.

With equally unseemly dispatch -- and for the same goal -- the Houston Chronicle also rushed to capitalize on the human suffering. That goal: to defend and promote . . .

MAY 23 / Epstein on the larger lesson of the IRS scandal

THE MAY 14 report of the Treasury Inspector General . . . explicitly stated that the [Exempt Office's] actions were "not politically biased," but were attributable solely to the confusions of lower staff members, who somehow for nearly three years never quite understood their jobs assignments. Don't believe a word of that whitewash. All the nitpicking questions and pointless delays, such as those experienced by the Ohio Tea Party, were calibrated to . . .

MAY 22 / Strassel on the IRS scandal, a . . .

. . . must-read.

MAY 20 / Credit where due

THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE did right by the IRS scandal in an editorial last Thursday. The targeting of conservative groups was Orwellian, the editorial said.

We think we speak for most Americans when we say . . .

MAY 19 / For the grace of God . . .

. . . that bring salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say "No" to . . .

MAY 18 / The top-ten graduates at . . .

. . . Kingwood High School and Kingwood Park High School have this in common: . . .

MAY 17 / Super-size the smelling salts

THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE editorial board will get the vapors when it reads this about the newspaper's least-favorite Houstonian: "Michael Berry Show Expanding Out of Houston," Wednesday's feature in "Talkers" magazine. Alternate headline: "Self-Syndication is Berry, Berry Good."

"Talkers" is the trade publication that covers the radio talk-show bidness.

Here's the teaser:

MAY 16 / Barack Hussein Obama: Alinskyite rope-a-doper

THE ENTERPRISE formerly known as ACORN once ran the election-fraud division of the progressive project, the ultimate goal of which is to fundamentally transform America. In different iterations, it still does.

The crudest forms of election fraud -- such as signing up fictional voters, then casting their ballots by mail -- are sometimes found out. Whereupon the organization wrings its hands, declares that it never authorized such a despicable thing, and fires someone.

Next election, the same players do the same thing.

So it is . . .