The Republican War on Women reaches Texas on International Women’s Day. The Texas state legislature reduced its already meager funding of women’s health by 2/3 last October, leading to the closing of clinics serving poor women around the state. Like much in Texas, the war on the poor is also something of a race war, […]
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The Texas Railroad Commission, for reasons that I assume have to do with keeping an antiquated state agency relevant, regulates energy policy for the Lone Star State. The TRC met with President Obama
One of the least savory individuals in the extremely corrupt world of college football is running for the Senate from the great state of Texas. That is none other than the legendary Craig James, proba
The Detroit Daily Advertiser, late 1860/early 1861 (I do not have an exact date): “Every horse thief, murderer, gambler, robber, and other rogue of high and low degree, fled to Texas when he found the United States too hot to hold him. The pioneers of that State were cut-throats of one kind or another, with […]
I love traveling. Seeing the world might mean more to me than almost any other thing I enjoy–reading, music, film, Oregon football, baseball. Maybe not good beer or bourbon, but it’s prett
In case we needed a reminder of domestic, right-wing “Christian” terrorism, a wacko tossed a Molotov cocktail at a Planned Parenthood clinic in McKinney. Texas yesterday. In other news, th
For less encouraging news about state judiciaries, we can turn to the state of Texas, where a man was sentenced to death in a trial in which the prosecutor and presiding judge were having an affair. You don’t have to be a legal scholar to see the, ah, rather obvious due process problems with a […]
Mr. Trevino took issue with my claim that Texas has seceded from two different countries in order to protect the right of white people to own black people. Dr. Loomis takes issue with Mr. Trevino, and
Erik makes an important point; Texas has thus far seceded from two different countries in order to defend the right of white people to own black people. In that context, seceding in order to maintain
Houston has a problem: Houston recycles just 2.6 percent of its total waste [30th among the 30 largest American cities], according to a study this year by Waste News, a trade magazine. By comparison, San Francisco and New York recycle 69 percent and 34 percent of their waste respectively. Moreover, 25,000 Houston residents have been […]
To step back a bit from the radical uncertainty espoused in my last post, let me say that I strongly agree with Hilzoy, Peter, and Matt on this point; the fact that the Clinton campaign apparently did
The wingnutty among us are about to go into a frenzy over the fact that a group of volunteers opening an Obama office in Texas (in preparation for actual Obama staffers, who will arrive later this wee