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Something to remind us of the emotional power of the web to bring people together from across the globe (read this first):
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
Some of you might have seen this e-mail going around in various re-incarnations. Read on and decide for your self if fact or fiction.
Talk about putting your most valuable where your mouth is! Apparently this was not “newsworthy” enough for the media to comment about. Can either of the other [...]
Shahid Malik, British minister in the Department for International Development:
I think most people would agree that if you ask Muslims today what do they feel like, they feel like the Jews of Europe. I don’t mean to equate that with the Holocaust but in the way that it was [...]
My friend Mike Otterman, author of American Torture, writes for the Guardian Comment is Free in response to Christopher Hitchens’ piece in Vanity Fair claiming water-boarding is torture…yet suggesting America is somehow not as bad as those repressive regimes…who also use torture:
Now, neoconservative pundit Christopher Hitchens has [...]
Probably not. Anyone who has seen the Ken Burns special on the civil war, providing they have at least one brain cell would have to be impressed with grandeur, and scope he detailed concerning the greatest tragedy to ever befall this nation.
While all of the documentary was impressive, the one thing that [...]
When Ron Paul ended his presidential bid, he told that he was really just beginning his campaign.
Rep. Ron Paul/(R) TX
In that lengthy interview, he talked about a brand new "Campaign for Liberty", and an effort to push forward an agenda he never thought would [...]
State District Judge Jim Fallon this week withdrew the July 22 execution date for Lester Leroy Bower to consider a request from Bower's lawyers for DNA testing of cigarette butts and other items recovered from the slaying scene outside Sherman, north of Dallas.
Grayson County [...]
OK. I bragged about the fireworks on Clear Lake to many of my friends so we all met up at Clear Lake to watch the event.Today, as Americans celebrate the 232nd anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we should take time to reflect on the profound ideal for which it stands--LIBERTY! The forefathers who signed this most hollowed of documents, proved to the world that you can love your country and at the same time [...]
Express-News columnist Deborah Martin had a piece on the San Antonio Classic Theatre's upcoming performance of Rancho Pancho. "Pancho" is a play written by former E-N book editor Gregg Barrios about the little known relationship between Tennessee Williams and Eagle Pass native Pancho Rodriguez.Via Bond Buyer, a financial industry publication, comes the news that Texas’ Permanent School Fund is nearly out of capacity to back new school bonds.
For those unfamiliar with the Permanent School fund,it is one of the state’s oldest established designated funds. It was established by the state legislature in [...]
...Sitting behind Mugabe at the ceremony, as Chinese-built fighter jets screamed overhead, six men glowered and followed their dictator's every move.
Thickset and bursting out of their heavily decorated military uniforms, the watching men were The Generals - a group of cold-blooded killers who [...]
After less than an hour visiting a housing assistance agency, President Bush and his motorcade sped to a private home here last Tuesday to make a quick appearance -- and deliver a whole lot of money -- for the Republican Party.It was [...]
From South Texas Chisme, there's news that the race for Jim Wells County Commissioner could be decided in court by the end of July.
J.C. Perez III seemed to have defeated incumbent Oswald "Wally" Olanis by 2 votes in the March 4 primary, but that turned out to be just [...]