Right Side of the Rainbow

In Texas, justice:

In a case that has drawn international attention, Texas executed José E. Medellín on Tuesday night in defiance of an international court ruling and despite pleas from the Bush administration for a new hearing.

Medellín was one of five bastards who, in 1993, raped, tortured and murdered two teenage girls from Houston. He was the second of the five to be executed. Texas put down Derrick O’Brien in 2006. Gang leader Peter Cantu is next.

The people of Texas can’t bring back Elizabeth Peña and Jennifer Ertman. But we can avenge them.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will not rehear a case in which a divided three-judge panel invalidated my state’s ban on the sale of sex toys.

Barack Obama has more money, more favorable media and a better organization than John McCain; Obama is also running in an environment agreeable to Democrats.

And yet no non-partisan poll has ever put Obama at or above 50%. In fact, according to Gallup, McCain now leads Obama by four points among likely voters, or at least he did as of Monday.

Why can’t Obama put McCain away?

During the Republican primaries, many of us wrote McCain off. We not only hoped he wouldn’t win, we also thought he couldn’t win. We were wrong. Now many say McCain can’t win the general election. Maybe they’re wrong too.

Meanwhile, the Republican Party remains as corrupt as ever, all but guaranteeing that the Democrats’ congressional majority will grow, regardless of what happens in the presidential race.