For this episode of On The Record, we speak with Eric Roberson, Democratic candidate for United States Congress in District 32.

As news goes, the weeks really seems to cycle between one of three varieties: a week with almost no news, a week with a few gigantic stories, or a week with many interesting happenings. This week has turned out to be of that last variety.

So it apparently turns out that it's not really torture if you acid scalded someone in the process of an interrogation without the intent to torture.

Michael Skelly, running for John Culberson's congressional seat down in the 7th District, is becoming a hot candidate. He is drawing a ton of national interest because he is fundraising at a murderous pace. Politico puts his numbers for this quarter at around $750,000. Keeping it going at this pace will make him extremely formidable in November, and he's worth watching.

April Fool's Day reached into politics yesterday, with humorous results.

Washington Post blogger Chris Cillizza just released his collection of the nation's top political blogs as picked by him and his readers. His picks for Texas? It looks like we made the list.

Rush Limbaugh has come to call his requests for Republican listeners to switch parties and vote for Hillary Clinton "Operation Chaos". Never mind that it is illegal — now Rush is creating problems for his Republican listeners that follow orders.

Good thing it's a presidential election year — that means there's plenty of filler to run on slow news days!

Congressman Bart Stupak of Michigan has an idea for seating the Michigan delegates, and it involves a little bit of the state's primary and a little bit of the total primary popular vote. I'm sure there's a sea of ideas being proposed in both Michigan and Florida, but I kind of like this one.

Over the weekend, Texas Democrats took the next step in our state's primary-and-caucus process. People headed to gyms, churches, and resorts — or as was the case with most of us here at The Texas Blue, a park — to elect delegates to the state convention, among other things.