Anyone and everything associated with President Bush seems to fall victim to his radioactive public persona. Tony Blair is on his way out, Republican congressional leaders lost Congress, Colin Powell lost credibility, and now the Democratic-controlled Congress is taking a hit in the polls due in large part to the appearance that they are doing nothing on the Iraq issue.

Information and knowledge is power!

Hays County voters sent a clear message to pro-toll, pro-road bond profiteers by voting "No" on Road Bond Proposition 1, which would have made many special interest parasites much more wealthy, homeowners much poorer, and the beautiful Hill Country environment much less attractive.

Denton County does not have a public defender system. Many have argued that our system of providing indigent criminal representation is superior to a public defender system.

In case you haven't hit the news circuits in a week or so, the buzz at the pink dome is all about a possible motion in the House to vacate the chair.

The recently signed SB 673 contains important implications for how Texas runs its special education programs.

The city elections were this last weekend, and Democrats made it in all over the place. City Councilman Ed Oakley is in the Dallas mayoral runoff against Tom Leppert, and Melissa Noriega, wife of State Representative (and friend of the show) Rick Noriega, came pretty close to winning outright the Houston City Council seat vacated by Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, but will face a runoff opponent in Roy Morales.

GOP presidential frontrunner Rudy Giuliani will soon find that you can’t have your cake and eat it too.

For this edition of On The Record, we talk to Donald Bankston, SDEC Committeeman for SD 18.

We open this week's Mailbag with a rare, behind the scenes look at the inner workings of the Texas Blue.

As I see it, there are three reasons we have a penal system in our society. Our communities should be protected from those who have demonstrated an inability to keep themselves from harming others. Those that do harm others should have the opportunity to rehabilitate themselves. And there have to be demonstrable consequences to bad acts to give those who might be thinking of harming others reason not to.