The Nation has an in-depth explainer of how, if you feel like you’re eating cotton candy when you read Gladwell, you actually are!There is no god and I am his prophet. [...] Yesterday was the day to view the maps & numbers for the Mayorals. Today, it's the Controller-wannabes.
Anglo Dem Neighborhoods
Khan Green Holm Heights 37% 34% 29% Meyerland 40% 29% 32% Montrose 30% 43% 27% Rice U 32% 35% 34%
African-American Neighborhoods
The U.S. House of Representatives is debating the health care reform bill today. If you have a strong stomach, you can watch the debate on CSPAN.
As the drama unfolds, a few observations about health care in America and the Republican effort to keep 50 million of our [...]
This may not come as a surprise to people who know the red hue of Chet Edwards' House district, but the Waco Democrat just announced he'll vote against the House healthcare bill.
Edwards won't be the only Democrat to vote against the bill, but it is the second no vote he'll [...]
As I said after the early voting totals were in, Hispanics are not voting. The Hispanic population could be the largest block of voters in Harris County unless they don't vote. And they proved that for the City races.
According to Marc Campos of Campos Communications Hispanics voted in' [...]
From the White House weblog:
In this week’s address, President Barack Obama expressed his sadness for the tragedy at Fort Hood and praised the selfless valor of those who came to the aid of the wounded. While we mourn the heartbreaking violence, we should honor the heroism of the soldiers and [...]
Similarly, in the world of academia there is one group that does not follow the lemmings in the world of education and therefore rejects the stupidity of Modern Liberalism and these are the professors who teach about the hard sciences like chemistry and physics.
What do athletes and professors of physics [...]
Plans to shut down all lanes of I-35E, scheduled for Sunday and Monday nights, have been postponed. Details over at the Dallas Transportation Blog.
--Michael Lindenberger/Reporter [...]Yeah, he got the areas he should have gotten, and at a better clip than Gene Locke did. But he also got between 20-25% in GOP-friendly areas, where Locke got a more meager single digit showing. His weakness is in Anglo Dem and Hispanic boxes. Those are fixable, but they'll' [...]
MJ did reasonably well in his own district: 49%. But he also did well in Kingwood & Clear Lake. And he didn't do too badly in the Anglo Dem stretch of the city, either. Mathematically, he's in a strong position. I underestimated his ceiling in the first round, but I' [...]
She killed in her own district. Why she didn't capitalize from being the only female in the race AND having a huge warchest to communicate with? Feel free to speculate. Mine is that it's inside baseball, but she was not very well served by her political consultant. Once we saw' [...]
Dear Diaretic Blog,
We just now got a copy of the LISD Board Retreat agenda. We've been asking for it since Wednesday, though it should have been posted on the district's website, according to state law. So, over my lunch hour, I burned some gas to get over there and get a' [...] Why did the US military ig nore the clear warning signs that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the suspected Ft. Hood shooter, had embraced radical Islam -- and thus become a danger to all around him?
It wasn't an oversight, it was policy --' [...]
By Bill WilsonStunned Muslims were trying to understand Friday why a normally soft-spoken Army officer who served on his local mosque's charity committee allegedly fatally shot 13 people at the sprawling Fort Hood military base in Texas.
Officials at the copper-domed Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring [...]
Over on our books blog, Texas Pages, Joy Tipping has the scoop: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee and a possible 2012 presidential contender, will bring her book tour to Plano on Dec. 4.
It's friendly turf: Palin and running mate John McCain won Collin [...]
Says Tea Partiers "nuttily" believe Big Government extinguishing FreedomsI found this article from the Republican Whip office site, in going through it I sorted out the reasons why they are going to hold things up. I also went to each Representatives site to see what they say, some had issued press releases sometime today and some were very [...]
Yes, I know the federal government says the unemployment rate is now 10.2% -- up from 9.8% after the country suffered a net loss of another 190,000 jobs in October. And that is a very scary figure in itself. After all, it shows nearly 16 [...] 
As more and more people (children and adults) use text messaging as a means of communication via their cell phones, will we find that correct spelling becomes obsolete?
Many young people use numbers and letters (4 instead of for, u for you) to speed up the process so they often don’t [...]
President Obama has signed an extension of unemployment benefits. It comes on a day when the nation's unemployment rate climbed to 10.2 percent.
The President signed the jobless bill in a private ceremony. It extends unemployment benefits another 14 weeks in all states. States with three-month average jobless rates of 8.5 [...]
From the FW Star Telegram:
"Al Armendariz, a Southern Methodist University professor who wrote a controversial study of air pollution caused by drilling operations in the Barnett Shale, has been named the regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Dallas office, the EPA announced Thursday..."Dr. Armendariz is exactly the kind of [...]
Weird. This.
Pakistani troops pushing deeper into South Waziristan yesterday razed the house of the militant leader Baitullah Mehsud, killed by a US drone strike this summer, as they assaulted the last of three Taliban strongholds.
Troops struck the village of Makeen, a major militant base and home town [...]
Yesterday, 13 brave Americans, including 12 soldiers, were murdered in an act of terror by a radical Muslim. Yes, a radical Muslim terrorist killed 13 of OUR people in the worst terrorist attack since 9/11. He planned the attack and killed the innocent victims, execution-style while shouting “God [...]
A worthy competitor to the iPhone has arrived in Motorola Droid: "This is the very first phone in over two years that I would consider carrying for day-to-day use instead of my iPhone"People familiar with the slang term "tea-bagging" know that it involves nuts. And there were about 300 nuts (wingnuts, that is) hanging out on the Lubbock County Courthouse lawn yesterday waiting for the Tea-Bagger Express to dip into town. The knuckle-dragging Neanderthals railed against healthcare reform while parading around with [...]
Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, shouted "Allahu Akhbar!" -- "God is great" in Arabic -- and emptied as many as [...]
This category is full of everything from getting kids ready for school to picking out those summer fun activities. So it shouldn’t surprize you that when someone emailed and asked me:
IMG: Elizabeth Ferree
My son is 3 years old and refusing use his potty chair. Any recommendations?
My first [...]
On Thursday afternoon, a radicalized Muslim US Army officer shouting "Allahu Akbar!" committed the worst act of terror on American soil since 9/11. And no one wants to call it an act of terror or associate it with Islam.
What cowards we are. Political correctness killed [...]
Only minutes ago the Louisiana Attorney General's office issued a statement that the Elysian street offices of ACORN in New Orleans were raided today and all of their computers and records were seized in a racketeering and embezzlement investigation. [...] 
State Board of Education member Rick Agosto of San Antonio, who has battled allegations that he failed to report gifts from a potential state bidder, Friday announced that he will not seek re-election next year. Agosto, a Democrat, did not mention the controversy [...]
Republican Party of Texas Welcomes State Rep. Chuck Hopson to the GOP
Many people voted for Barack Obama because his predecessor was an incompetent moron, and they bought into the idea Obama would bring much needed change into federal politics. W had been at the helm as the US was attacked on 9/11, had started two wars resulting [...] Each week, your diligent and incredibly hard-working editor in chief will sort through thousands upon thousands of editorial and political cartoons and select those which best reflect the current editorial mindset and political mood of the United States of America. His efforts are laudable. Each Friday evening at this time, [...]
The first one is [...]
Yesterday, members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) met with President Obama to discuss their concerns that punitive language targeting undocumented immigrants in the Senate healthcare plan would be repeated in the House version that is supposed to be voted on this weekend.
If that's the [...]
“As the House nears a vote on health care reform, I continue to read and evaluate the final changes and I am [...]
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cThe 11/3 Projectwww.thedailyshow.comDaily ShowThursday’s shooting on a Texas military base has revived the debate on whether the current gun control rules on military bases make sense and both advocates and critics see the tragedy as supporting their side.
Army Chief of Staff George W. Casey Jr. ordered a review of all force protection policies [...]
Dungeon Diary [...]
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You would think, since I had the day off I could have done more posting, and gotten the pussy blog posted earlier. But no, I am a man of tradition and 5pm is usually the time.
I was once told that if you are not a liberal when you are young you have no heart, and if you are not a conservative when you are old you have no mind. I’m not ever going to be a full-on conservative, not in today’s [...]
Lull ... final week ... lots of playoff positioning in order tonight. Enjoy!
# Team Rec W/L Week Nine Week Eight Pvs 1. Cedar Hill 10-0 W @ Grand Prairie, 55-7 Irving Nimitz, 52-7 1 2. Dallas Skyline 10-0 W Dallas White, 62-3 @ Sunset, 56-0 2 3. The Woodlands 10-0 W @ Lufkin, 31-21 New Caney, 45-8 3 4. FB Hightower 9-0 - [...]
Two pieces of news for the 2010 cycle, one good and one not good. For the latter first, State Rep. Chuck Hopson, who won a very tight race for re-election in 2008, has announced that he will run in 2010 as a Republican.
A press release from Hopson’s campaign said [...]
The U.S. Senate today passed a resolution, (S. Res 344) authored by U.S. Texas Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn honoring the Fort Hood victims and their families.
"As the families and victims begin their long and difficult recovery from this shocking and saddening tragedy, we offer our prayers and support in this [...]
The headline today in the Times of London:
All hope is lost for Copenhagen climate treaty, British officials sayA world treaty on climate change will be delayed by up to a year and is likely to be watered down because countries with the highest greenhouse gas emissions are refusing to commit to [...]
Friend heydave has sent along some pictures of fall life in Iowa that serve as a lovely antidote to the grim realities of the last couple of days. Thanks heydave!President Barack Obama released the following proclamation today:
Our Nation's thoughts and prayers are with the service members, civilians, and families affected by the tragic events at Fort Hood, Texas. The brave victims, who risked their lives to protect their fellow countrymen, serve as a constant [...]
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cThe 11/3 Projectwww.thedailyshow.comDaily ShowThree weeks ago was my 25-year high school reunion. This weekend is Alumni Weekend at my university. I couldn’t attend either, but I could put together a school-and-nostalgia oriented Friday Random Ten.
1. Schoolhouse Rock Medley – Lager Rhythms
2. My Old School – Steely Dan
3. School’s Out [...]
You Go, GirlCourtesy Kathy Brown
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Sen. Zaffirini was the big spender and has not one town hall meeting to show for it.1/29/09
State Representative Chuck Hopson today joined other lawmakers in endorsing John Sharp's U.S. Senate bid, making it unanimous among East and Southeast Texas Democratic legislators.
"John Sharp reflects East Texas values and will make a great U.S. Senator," Hopson said. "From the economy to energy to education to health care," [...]
Now THIS is entertainment ...
[...]Gov. Rick Perry has a new writing partner. Perry and fellow Republican Gov. Mark Sanford teamed up as co-authors to bash Washington. In a December op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Perry and Sanford targeted federal bailouts. Sanford has since been occupied over telling his staff he was hiking [...]
President Obama issued this proclamation today:
"Our nation's thoughts and prayers are with the service members, civilians, and families affected by the tragic events at Fort Hood, Texas. The brave victims, who risked their lives to protect their fellow countrymen, serve as a constant source of [...]
Geography Awareness week is sneaking up — November 15-21.
Got your special lesson plans ready, teachers?
Posted in Education, Geography - Economic, Geography - Physical, Geography - Political, Lesson plans Tagged: Education, geography, Geography Awareness Week, Lesson plans [...] 
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