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A blogger named Chris Deville’s view of 2013 SXSW:
Ostensibly, attending Austin’s logo-infused music (and movie, and tech) industry sprawl South By Southwest is expensive. Count on inflated airfare to Austin, $200 a night for a downtown hotel room and hundreds of dollars for food and drinks — oh, and $625 for a badge, [...]
McMurtry, in one of the best essays I’ve read about gun laws, leans towards regulating the size of clips because this might give first responders a chance to kill a shooter while he’s re-loading. He does not particularly favor banning assault rifles, in part because of the impossibility of defining what they are. His [...]
Did someone tell House Republicans that “haggle” was an instransitive verb and they misunderstood?
I honestly thought we’d have a deal by now. Both sides realize that going over the “fiscal cliff” is dumb after all. Weren’t we told that’s why the cliff had been set up, so that both sides would be sure to [...]
Actually, I’m more surprised that all but one Republican in the House voted to strike the word “lunatic” from the federal code than I am at who that lone Republican was, or at why he voted not to.
The executive commissioner of Texas’ Health and Human Services Department, Texas’ “health czar” if you like, thinks the high rate of uninsured people in the state is a myth. he thinks Texans may not have health insurance because the weather’s too nice, or something. No really.
Kyle Janek doesn’t believe—despite credible, widely accepted evidence to [...]
What do you do when you just can’t abide living in a country that elects an uppity n-Dinggg! as President? Falsely call the center-right guy in the White House a socialist, Muslim and every other insult that you can think of. And if the country elects that same uppity s.o.b. again?
In the three weeks [...]
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, By Anna M. Tinsley, November 25
Fort Worth – Michael Hill has been stockpiling guns and ammunition for almost a decade.
But he’s not done — not since President Barack Obama was re-elected this month.
In a continuing trend that alarms gun control proponents, Hill and thousands of other Americans are buying [...]
In Texas, if a police officer can demonstrate probable cause that a vehicle operator is drunk, they can apply for a warrant to take a biological sample to prove it.
Alternet, By Jeff Winkler, November 21
Officer Taylor cruised through the Austin metro for almost two hours before she finally collared a drunk driver around [...]
Four are dead and another 17 were injured in the West Texas city of Midland as a freight train plowed into a float in the “Hunt For Heroes” parade yesterday afternoon.
The float was one of two 18-wheel trailers carrying wounded veterans and their families during the parade when a train approached, according to Hamid [...]
It beggars belief that Texas, a state where far more people than average will benefit from Obama’s healthcare reforms, continues to back Republicans who will play politics with their health.
Ahead of a Friday deadline to decide, Gov. Rick Perry’s office has reaffirmed that Texas will not implement a major tenet of federal health reform [...]
Ted Cruz, the Senator-elect from Texas, has an interesting observation to make:
“If Republicans do not do better in the Hispanic community,” he said, “in a few short years Republicans will no longer be the majority party in our state.” He ticked off some statistics: in 2004, George W. Bush won forty-four per cent of [...]
Exhibit A:
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott made it clear this week he does not want international elections observers anywhere near the polls in his state.
In a letter dated Tuesday to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Abbott threatened to prosecute any of its monitors who step within 100 feet of a [...]
Reuters, Marice Ricter, October 10
DALLAS – The outbreak of West Nile disease in the United States moved a step closer on Wednesday to becoming the second worst on record with federal health authorities reporting 280 cases of the virus-caused illness over the past week.
There have now been 4,249 cases of West Nile recorded [...]
There’s no keeping a properly corrupt Texas pol down.
A lawyer for former U.S. House of Representatives Majority Leader Tom DeLay asked a Texas appeals court on Wednesday to overturn the Republican’s 2010 convictions for money laundering and conspiracy, calling the case “the most nakedly political prosecution I’ve seen.”
…During oral arguments before a three-judge [...]
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