Texas Monthly Executive Editor Paul Burka blogged earlier today about the decision the Texas Supreme Court made in Perry Homes v. Cull that found in favor of Houston-based homebuilder Perry Homes. He includes a lengthy excerpt from Texas Watch about the case:

From McClatchy:

MEXICO CITY — A U.S. crackdown on domestic methamphetamine labs has created opportunities for Mexican drug cartels and their "superlabs" to fill the void.

Law enforcement agencies now consider "meth" produced in Mexico to be the greatest drug menace in the Western United States and a growing concern across the southeast and mid-Atlantic states, according to a Department of Justice report released this year.

Via Digby from the Fayetteville (NC) Observer:

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said in an interview Tuesday that she will call for a congressional hearing in response to an online video that shows poor living conditions at barracks on Fort Bragg.

Think Progress shares another in the long line of shameful and scandalous stories about contractor KBR and the actions of some of their employees in Iraq:

Anything with the title "Lawmakers get hostile reception at border fence hearing" gets my attention because I can guess said lawmakers are usually Republicans. In the case of this article, the lawmaker singled out for the ire of the citizens was none other than Colorado Republican and all around unpleasant fellow Representative Tom Tancredo. Check this exchange out for a taste of Tancredo's wisdom:

What's that? It's the percentage of girls between the ages of 14 and 17 who were removed from the YFZ (Yearning For Zion) compound in Schleicher County, Texas, who are either pregnant or who have already given birth to children.

Via the International Herald Tribune, we find Bolivian President Evo Morales logged 41 minutes of game time for Bolivian second division club Litoral.

While President Morales failed to score in his debut, the article does mention that he once played soccer in his younger days for a local coca farmers' team.

It's not often that there's news items generated by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, but today is one of those days. The Coordinating Board rejected a degree proposal from Dallas' Institute for Creation Research for a Master's degree program that would educate science teachers in the doctrine of creationism rather than the recognized consensus of Darwinian evolution. From the Dallas Morning News' article:

Clinton campaign adviser Terry McCauliffe was on MSNBC earlier this afternoon with this amazing fundraising news:

On MSNBC a few minutes ago Terry McCauliffe announced the Hillary Clinton campaign raised $10 million online "with 50,000 brand new donors" since the polls closed in Pennsylvania last night.

That is very impressive, particularly the 50,000 new donors part.

Upcoming electoral contests:

Guam (4 electoral votes) May 3
North Carolina (115 electoral votes) May 6
Indiana (72 electoral votes) May 6
West Virginia (28 electoral votes) May 13
Kentucky (51 electoral votes) May 20
Oregon (52 electoral votes) May 20
Puerto Rico (55 electoral votes) June 1
South Dakota (15 electoral votes) June 3
Montana (16 electoral votes) June 3