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Tuesday Roundup: Lawful Enemy Combatants

Boy, there's one nice thing about the White House quickly shoving through legislation to hold people in Guantanamo without the right to habeas corpus: haste makes waste.

No Shortage of Earned Media and "The God Gap"

The Democratic candidates debated on Sunday and decent press followed, including plenty of arguing about who won. Last night Clinton, Obama, and Edwards discussed the role that faith plays in their personal lives and their politics in a smaller forum, with positive results.

Sine Die For Electoral Mobilization

The Dallas Morning News revisited one of the 80th Legislature’s failures to act in an article frontpaged on their website Thursday: Moving Texas’ primary date up to "Super Tuesday," February 5, 2008.

At Best, Texans Ruled By Slick Used-Car Salesmen

Believing the hype pushed by the governor and legislators is much the same as buying a used-car from "Honest" Harry’s used car lot.

Monday Roundup: Debate and Switch

For those of you that didn't get to see last night's debate: you missed a social engineering experiment put on by CNN, in which the top three candidates were literally placed in the middle of it all.

CNN Democratic Primary Debate: The LiveBlog

Well, it's that time again. Tonight is the night of the second debate for the Democratic candidate field. Surreal, isn't it? For those of you who don't recall, the first debate of the 2004 primary season was in September of '03. Here we are, in June, getting ready for the second debate of this season.

Debate Prep

CNN has a solid rundown of what will likely be the focus of tonight's debate, and Politico has some "I wish" questions.

On The Record: Allen McClinton

For today's edition of On The Record, we speak with Allen McClinton, legislative aide to State Representative Rick Noriega.

SB 792, the fake moratorium bill, sits on the governor's desk

These days it seems harder to judge friend or foe.

Texas Blue Mailbag: Week of 5/27/07

This week's edition of the mailbag is heavy on questions and comments about Mikal Watts.