New MOMocrats post: My expulsion from Kindergarten... [momocrats.typepad.com]
[...]edited by: Ted McLaughlin,
Texas Editor
When I was 5 years old, I was expelled from Kindergarten. Twice. I don't remember what the first expulsion was for, but the second one remains a family legend to this day. Because truly, not everyone gets kicked out of Kindergarten. Twice.
There's a child's rhyme' [...]
With the evolution of social networking websites comes a whole new set of awkward social situations.
My latest has to do with two gentlemen who are both candidates for Lubbock County Sheriff in the Republican Primary: Don Carter and Kelly Rowe. Both are capable, professional people with whom I have [...]
Last month, my mother called me out of the blue telling me she had just finished watching this movie about immigration and wanted me to include this movie in my next set of movies I rent from Blockbuster. After watching this movie, I see why my mother told [...]
The entire Austin City Council has also endorsed White.
Electing a Governor is not about friendship, it is about leadership. Bill White is my friend, but more importantly, he is what Texas needs today–a true leader.
I have served with, and for, many a real leader. Whether in a war [...]
Texas has had an open meetings law on the books for 42 years, and it has worked well. The purpose of the law is to prevent public business from being conducted in secret where the citizens won't know what or how a decision was reached. It' [...] 
UN officials have likened the theft of e-mails from university climate researchers to the Watergate scandal, after claiming computer hackers were probably paid by people intent on undermining the Copenhagen summit.
Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, a vice-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), [...]
Put me down with LD on this one, I’ve been proud to vote for Bill White for Houston Mayor twice; hell, he even won in my tory Clear Lake precinct. After hurricane Katrina, he moved swiftly to take care of people in trouble, while idiot [...] We’ve had one full week of early voting, with two twelve-hour days to go. As you can see on the spreadsheet, today was the slowest day, with 2,600 voters showing up, giving a total of 43,989 votes. I’ve been remiss in noting the fact that some of these votes [...]
According to the Texas Ethics Commissio:
§ 255.007. Notice Requirement on Political Advertising Signs
(a) The following notice must be written on each political advertising sign:
"NOTICE: IT IS A VIOLATION OF STATE LAW (CHAPTERS 392 AND 393, TRANSPORTATION CODE), TO PLACE THIS SIGN IN THE" [...]
During the last debate Locke insinuated that Annise Parker promised a payback to Peter Brown for his endorsement in the race. Locke also claimed he never promised anything to get an endorsement. Unfortunately that isn't exactly true.
Just after the endorsement of Locke (by a slim 2 vote margin) by' [...]
On Friday, within an hour of Hank Gilbert's announcement he was moving to the Ag Commissioner's race, Todd Staples tweeted this out...
After losing the ag race, losing in a local election & a deceptive run for gov, Hank Gilbert now says he is going to run for ag comm againTeam [...]
When' [...]
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[...]Excellent letter in the Waco paper from Bill Hobby.
TML wants criminal penalties such as jail time stripped from the law, which has protected the public for more than four decades. They believe the current language is too punitive and argue “less restrictive penalties would not only continue to preserve [...]
No planet status for Pluto, no justice.
Yeah, I can’t believe there hasn’t been one of these before now, either.
Coolio’s kitchen. I got nothin’.
James Garfield is in his rightful place, and all is well with the universe.
The dark side of embedding one’s Twitter feed.
I’ll never [...]
So, this is the pragmatic reality check: the Copenhagen UN Climate Change Conference is worthless, and we just shouldn’t care. It could never be any other way.
The hard [...]
Beginning with the starter sentence, here is my lofty contribution to Flash Fiction Friday.
For a generation of Democrats, George McGovern represented the epitome of a politician willing to take a stand for principles -- and of the sometimes disastrous political price to be paid when that stand is rejected by voters.
His opposition to the Vietnam War began just [...]
The following video is from NBC’s Saturday Night Live, broadcast December 5, 2009.
It speaks for itself.
The new NATO offensive in Helmand Province marked not only the largest assault yet for the VM-22 Osprey, but also the combat debut of the Marines' massive new combat mine and bomb-clearing machine, the Assault Breacher Vehicle (ABV), said a Marine Corps spokesman in Helmand.
The ABV, which' [...]
On hand were Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)--who's been trying to broker a compromise between competing' [...]
Check out this video of a Texas Railroad Commission meeting (RealPlayer required) in which the Commission authorizes its attorney to intervene in Public Utility Commission dockets regarding power line construction in the Competitive Renewable Energy Zones.Palin appeared in a brand-new role for the possible 2012 Republican presidential candidate -- joke-teller as the GOP's representative at the annual winter Gridiron Dinner, a 124-year-old group of Washington writers and guests who hold such regular opportunities for political writers to mingle with [...]
Speaking of Republican amnesia, how about our very own Kay Clueless Bailey Hutchison? When asked by David Shuster about where Republicans, who are complaining about President Obama taking too long to act on sending additional troops to Afghanistan, were when George W. Bush didn't act at all on a' [...]
Even for a country that prides itself on its revolutionary credentials, Iran has been unusually bellicose in recent weeks, rejecting a nuclear deal it had earlier appeared to embrace and threatening to build new uranium-enrichment plants in defiance of international restrictions.
One reason, Iran specialists [...]
Perhaps it was inevitable. A man who voted "present" 130 times in the Illinois Legislature couldn't possibly morph into a savvy and decisive leader of the free world in such a short time.
Yet even the pessimists among us are alarmed by the cloud' [...]
It’s a Zogby poll, so don’t get too excited, but that’s still four out of four since Election Day.
While the race for Houston mayor remains too close to call, Parker’s 5.5 percentage point lead stems from advantages among several demographics, including women, whites, Hispanics and self-identified independent voters.
Parker leads [...]
From AFP:With 20,000 delegates, advocates and journalists jetting to Copenhagen for planet Earth's last chance, the carbon footprint of the global warming summit will be the only impressive consequence of the climate change meeting. Its organizers had hoped it would produce binding caps on emissions, global taxation [...]
Among other things, Friday was the eight days out campaign finance reporting deadline for the city runoffs. The Chron reports on the Mayoral candidates.
Both sides aggressively asked for volunteers and donors before the Wednesday deadline. Election rules allowed Parker and Locke to go back to donors who gave the [...]
Senator Orrin Hatch on the floor of the Senate, speaking about the health care reform bill. From Think Progress:
"This will become one more example of the arrogance of power being exerted since the Democrats secured a 60-vote majority in the United States Senate and took over the House" [...]
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