Excellent story about a reporter in Williamson County, Texas (deep red suburbs north of Austin) trying to vote with a utility bill as an ID. Mind you, Texas doesn't require photo ID for voting since its law is being challenged in the courts. But precinct...
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I'm impressed by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's bluster about arresting international election monitors coming to his state to observe the upcoming presidential election. I'm not sure what actual law.
I had a fairly good sense of violence against white opponents of secession in Texas during the early period of the Civil War, including the massacre of German settlers as.
This is the greatest weather report in history: Onion Weather Center: Arizona Heatwave Forces Temporary Suspension Of Racial Profiling The best part is when they hope for tornadoes to destroy Dallas: "Any chance of these tornadoes changing course and ridding the Earth of some of...
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.
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 way of people being invited to Megan McArdle's or Tom Daschle's or whoever's Christmas...
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.
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 legendary Craig James, probably the most widely loathed commentator in televised sports. James has...
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.
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.