The Texas Republican Party announced its 2012 platform. This is otherwise known as the standard Republican policy narrative circa 2015. It is very special. So special that no one can really explore the whole thing without losing their mind. Here's 11 brilliant moments. But there...
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Connecticut need not worry about Texas trying to steal its nickname. Because the Lone Star state does not care about the Constitution except for its grotesquely expansive view of the.
Ruben Navarrette suffers from the condition known as Beltwayitis. It's when pundits and politicians hang out together all the time without ever discussing anything of substance that might get in.
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...
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.
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 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...
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.
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, the.
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...
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.
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,.