Assclown Alert is a column of opinion, analysis and snark. Even though U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has gone to Herculean lengths to avoid talking about abortion this election season, turns out John Adams was right when he said facts are stubborn things. The Texas Republican was one of 26 senators who signed onto a brief this spring urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule a Biden administration directive that hospitals should continue to provide emergency abortion care after the demise of Roe v. Wade.