edited by: Ted McLaughlin,
Texas Editor
Unlike Watergate, Climategate didn't come to light because investigative journalists ferreted out the truth. Instead, this story so far has played itself out largely on blogs, often run by the same scientists who had a hard time getting printed in the scientific journals. Climategate' [...]
Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., has been going around the country backing conservative Senate candidates - sometimes in defiance of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, chaired by Texas Sen. John Cornyn.
Conservatives and even [...]
Despite a tough economy that forced cuts elsewhere, oil and gas producers in 2009 continued their push into the deep-water Gulf of Mexico, and many of their efforts were rewarded.
So far this year, there have been 12 discoveries in at least 1,000 feet of water, [...]
We’ve seen the eight days out finance reports for the Mayor’s race, now here’s the same thing for the Controller’s race. As before, the campaign finance spreadsheet has been updated with all of the raw data. Here’s how it breaks down for Ronald Green and MJ Khan:
Candidate Raised [...]I’m not much of a debate-watching person, and we had company yesterday afternoon, so I did not catch the last Mayoral debate. (Judging by David Ortez’s liveblogging, it would seem a lot of people weren’t watching.) I don’t think events like these tell you much about a candidate [...]
I believe this will be the last of the runoff overview stories.
The runoff for an at-large City Council seat has devolved into a battle over the subtle connotations of the phrase “city contractor.”
One of the candidates for Position One, Stephen Costello, has worked as a drainage engineer for Houston, [...]
by Eric DonderoWhen 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.
From Eric Dondero: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 [...]
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