Just two hours after a U.S. district judge stopped a Texas law that would have eliminated Planned Parenthood’s participation in the state’s Women’s Health Program, Federal Appeals Judge Jerry E. Smith issued an emergency stay that lifted that order. In the appeal for the emergency stay, a team of attorneys led by Texas Attorney General [...]
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Cedric Steele, who has been living in an abandoned home on Donnelly Avenue, was arrested late Tuesday in a convenience store parking lot in the 6000 block of Camp Bowie Boulevard, Fort Worth Police Chief Jeffrey Halstead said. He faces a charge of arson of a building. Bond is set at $50,000. Steele had visited [...]
Texas governor calls for prayers for rain, Obama asks him to just call
(Reuters) – Texas Governor Rick Perry called for three days of prayer for rain as a wave of moisture and cooler temperatures on Thursday helped firefighters contain wildfires that have charred more than 1.5 million acres across the state this year. Perry sought increased federal help in combating the blazes last weekend and urged Texans [...]
Late Friday Link Dump 3/25 (Turned into Intellgient Design Slam, Soon to be Illegal in Texas)
Couple quick ones to start off with…the Don’t Make Us Pay stuff is getting more exposure. Here they go with “dazzling hypocrisy” and include some samples of the banner ads. Over here they just call it “dishonesty“. Both of those are moving up the search results lists, and this should help. – Speaking of the [...]
Separate But Equal (but not really) Returns to Texas, Hardcore
The Senate Health and Human Services Committee just passed the “Choose Life” license plates bill by a 5-1 vote. Dallas GOP Sen. John Carona, R-Dallas, said he’d support an amendment that would create a license plate advocated by pro-choicers – who want the state to sell plates advocated both sides of the issue – if [...]
I Come From a City Full Of Terrorists
It turns out I have a lot closer ties to terrorism than even I thought. You might too. If you have ever given money to a hospital, you might be a terrorist. If you have ever helped the poor, especially some of the poorest in the world, you might be a terrorist. If you have [...]
The REAL Joe the Plumber
DALLAS — There’s one “Joe the Plumber” who is already better off thanks to John McCain and Barack Obama. Phones rang off the hook Thursday in the Amarillo office of plumber Joe Francis, whose Web site joetheplumber.com became an instant Internet curiosity the day after the final presidential debate. McCain and Obama made multiple references [...]
John “Corny” Cornyn’s “Cow Whisperer” Ads and Rick Noriega’s Response
For as much money as John Cornyn has, he sure is spending it in the most bizarre ways, and on some of the most in-effective TV ads I can imagine.After mucking up his launch by running ads immediately after Hurricane Ike and running them for two weeks statewide with seeing a negative bump in the [...]
Why Monarchy Sucked
The children of Paul Emery Washington think of their father as an unpretentious, generous guy who climbed the corporate ladder to become regional manager at CertainTeed manufacturing, a building-supply company. Now 82, he takes care of his wife, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, while spending time on the San Antonio, Texas, property that he shares [...]
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