UPDATE (Dec 4): A Dallas Morning News employee, depressed at the prospect of news editors now answering to the paper's ad sales people, files the following anonymous newsroom dispatch with the blog of the monthly D Magazine (not affiliated with the paper):

Everybody is disgruntled, to put it mildly,...

In the 1980's, billionaire conservative gadfly Ross Perot received the prestigious Winston Churchill Award at a lavish Dallas dinner. Prince Charles himself came across the pond for the event, and local high society, Republican to a fault, rushed around town in the two weeks beforehand booking lessons on how to...

The ongoing saga of the Iraqi oil patch pie adds a new chapter, courtesy of the Thursday New York Times, and its above-the-fold front pager, "American Adviser to Kurds Stands to Reap Oil Profits."

In today's installment, we learn that Peter Galbraith, former ambassador, foreign policy...

Americans take it on faith that movie stars are politically liberal. Whether the celebrity lives in L.A. or New York, from Streisand to Sarandon, we know how they see the world because they're honest about it.

Some don't think liberal actors should espouse personal views. The performer should shut up...

Everyone on the Right says President Obama hasn't earned the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. It's as if they have set themselves up as its sole arbiters.

Some on the Left even echo this sentiment. Jesse Berney, writing on Huffington Post, states that the prize "should...

You know we're in trouble when a major political party openly roots for its country to lose.

Republican congressional leaders denounced President Obama's brief jaunt to Copenhagen (24 hours total) to press the case that the good 'ol USA should host the 2016 Summer Olympics in Chicago....

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Arlington, Texas certainly knows its priorities.

School officials in the town, home of the new $1 billion Dallas Cowboys football palace, declined to show President Obama's pro-education speech on Tuesday.

Later this month, however, the new stadium is hosting an event featuring special...

UPDATE (Sept. 3): An announcement today reveals that a new pregnancy test requested by Dirk Nowitzki and ordered by a Texas judge in late July has been administered, apparently in Missouri. It shows that his ex-fiancée is not currently pregnant. Cristal Taylor was first tested -- by jail officials...

George Bush minions are doing quick damage control in the wake of Tom Ridge's revelation that he smelled a rat in White House efforts to raise the terror threat level on the weekend before Bush's '04 reelection.

Andrew Card, former Bush chief of staff, tells Politico that "We...

Bill Clinton gets the girl(s), and he and Al Gore are a team again. Let's party like it's 1995!

We all remember the tension of 2000. Clinton's impeachment had saddled Gore in the race against George Bush, and internal polls showed that Clinton hurt as much as...

Earlier this week, Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) introduced -- and then withdrew -- an amendment that would have prevented the military from using money to carry out Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the policy that forces military gays and lesbians to stay in the closet.

Please understand that this...

Talk about corporate inflexibility. File this under "And this is the thanks I get?"

A produce manager at a Randalls grocery store in Texas was just back from lunch last week when he heard a female customer screaming at the deli counter. Someone had just grabbed her purse and...

President Obama now acknowledges that health care legislation won't happen before the August congressional recess, which lasts all month. In Cleveland on Thursday, he spoke of an "end of the year" deadline, and also mentioned, more hopefully, "this fall."

Beware. When the cat's away, the rats will play.

We all...

Dan Rather won't let go of his 2007 lawsuit against CBS. There's a reason. He's holding a decent hand, and he's got sticktoitiveness.

The July 22 NY Times reports that he's just won access to thousands of internal documents. He's also gotten a fraud charge reinstated against the...

Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota weighed in last Sunday on fellow Republican Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina:

"Any time you have leading figures who are engaged in behavior that is sad and troubling and hypocritical...It certainly hurts the brand."

The brand? Interesting word choice, and Republicans have been...

UPDATE: A September 3rd announcement revealed the result of a new pregnancy test requested by Dirk Nowitzki and ordered by a Texas judge in late July. Apparently administered in Missouri, it showed that his ex-fiancée was not pregnant at the time of the new test. Cristal Taylor was first...

The Washington Post is helping George Bush polish his flaccid legacy. Let's hope it's just a sympathetic one-off between ex-lovers.

Last Saturday, they ran a front page article on Bush-in-retirement. Woven into the puff piece was this seemingly bland statement (italics mine):

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On Wednesday, Rush Limbaugh finally said it. He told Neil Cavuto on Fox News that he's the "de facto" leader of the Republican Party.

Here's his quote:

"Too many elected Republicans right now are just in fear, Neil, of being criticized, of opposing...

Here's an actual exchange from the "comments" section of a recent HuffPost entry about guns (monikers mine):

Gun Obsessive: You do understand, I hope, that shotguns have a very limited range?

Not Gun Obsessive: I understand that if shotgun pellets are continuously being found in your backyard that those guns...

Texans and guns.

Back in 2006, Dick Cheney shot a man in Reno, err, Kingsville, in South Texas. In the face, while hunting quail in an open field. On a 53,000 acre spread.

He claimed (and experts disbelieved) to be at least 90 feet from his victim,...