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  Dan Patrick, Show Us You Mean It. Give a Coronavirus Sufferer a Bath.

  March 26 at 4 a.m.

  Wait. Wait. Texas does not have to do a total, forever Fauci-style face-plant over Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. There is a respectable, even noble way out of this for us. True, it’s bad. Last week Patrick earned worldwide opprobrium for himself and terrible attention for Texas with what he said...

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  There Are Laws About Quarantine, but This Time Won’t Be Like Ebola

  March 23 at 4 a.m.

  Norman Siegel, a prominent New York civil rights lawyer who won a well-publicized victory on Ebola quarantines three years ago, has a new message. This is different. I talked to him last week because his quarantine victory in 2017 had an indirect connection with the 2014 Dallas Ebola scare, which...

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  Dallas Couple in 20-Day Quarantine Counts on Patience, Perseverance

  March 19 at 4 a.m.

  Jim Anderson and his wife are living in what could be described as a very well-run, nicely appointed, accommodating, fairly friendly minimum security prison in San Antonio. They can leave their small suite at will to walk the grounds, but the area where they are allowed to walk is surrounded...

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  Can We Overreact? And Other Questions Nobody Wants to Talk About.

  March 18 at 4 a.m.

  By now you have seen X-many lists of answers to all the questions people are asking. So I thought I’d work on a list of answers to questions people are not asking. These are questions people may not want to ask because they fear the questions may not be politically...

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  If They Could Just Shut Up About Don’t Panic, That Alone Might Help a Little Bit

  March 16 at 4 a.m.

  If I could have one wish, which I can’t, it would be that people would stop telling me not to panic. Panic is a personal matter. I don’t need public officials or editorial writers telling me whether to panic or not. And, by the way, nothing they say is going...

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  What’s Good for the Car Wash Is Good for South Dallas, and That’s Really Bad

  March 12 at 4 a.m.

  The wolf is at the door in South Dallas. The very near future could see massive dispossession and displacement there to dwarf the city’s long, ugly history elsewhere of dispossession and displacement. The elected leadership of South Dallas not only will fail to raise a hand to protect it. They...