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Texas Blue Mailbag: Week of 08/19/2007
Fri, 08/24/2007 - 2:13pm
Boy, we were worried for a while there that this week's Mailbag would be all serious. Fortunately for us, someone decided to ask a Ron Paul question.
DeLaygate, Continued
Fri, 08/24/2007 - 2:00pm
The tangled web that keeps on giving continues to unravel: Earlier today, State District Judge Joe Hart ordered the lawsuit against the Texas Association of Business and Governor Rick Perry's former Chief of Staff/former TAB lobbyist Mike Toomey to move to trial.
Texas Politics Can Do Without Certain Kinks
Fri, 08/24/2007 - 10:22am
Trying to be Texas’s reincarnated Abbie Hoffman during the packed 2006 gubernatorial race, Kinky instead came off looking like a hastily-concocted Alfred E. Neuman wannabe. They shared roughly the same amount of political savvy, too.
Friday Roundup: VX Nerve Gas, Coming to Your Town
Fri, 08/24/2007 - 7:00am
Activism is important, and it allows ordinary citizens to address questionable practices by government in a reasonable way. For instance, the State of Texas is shipping by- and waste-products of VX nerve gas across Texas to Port Arthur, where it is incinerated. Not everyone is happy about that.
Departmental Magic At The White House
Thu, 08/23/2007 - 4:43pm
In a May lawsuit, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington made moves via official and proper channels (read: FOIA requests) to gain access to White House Office of Administration documents concerning the deletion of millions of White House emails.
On The Record: Jean Whiteside
Thu, 08/23/2007 - 12:30pm
For this episode of On The Record, we speak with Jean Whiteside, the Panola County Democratic Party Chair.
Thursday Roundup: War of the Words
Thu, 08/23/2007 - 8:30am
I think President Bush has been listening to those crazy left-wing bloggers too much. He seems to have liked the many comparisons between Iraq and Vietnam so much, he's started using them himself. Of course, he's taking them in a different direction — one that many would argue isn't quite historically accurate.
A Very Special Speculation
Wed, 08/22/2007 - 3:45pm
Alt-weeklies strike again. The Austin Chronicle puts two and two together and comes up with a possible reason why Anna Mowery would resign in mid-August: a special session!
Attorney Firing Scandal: Now with Local Flavor
Wed, 08/22/2007 - 2:00pm
You are no doubt aware of the many US Attorneys who are claiming to have been fired for political reasons. But are you aware of the attorney and former employee the Texas Secretary of State's office who makes a similar claim, pointing to Karl Rove as the instigator?
Wednesday Roundup: The Pale Visage of Punishment
Wed, 08/22/2007 - 7:00am
Saturday is going to be a day of reckoning — the Rules Committee of the DNC is going to meet in Washington, and they will be charged with the task of figuring out what to do about the states that go "rogue" and set their primaries on dates against party rules.