For sixteen years in Texas we've had one party rule and it's hard to imagine how anyone could say with a straight face that the officials currently in power have made things better for ordinary hard-working Texans.
Welcome once again to our year-end wrap-up and awards ceremony. Honesty dictates that I immediately genuflect to The McLaughlin Group, from whom I have stolen all these award categories.
Last Monday, I had the opportunity to go to the fifth annual fundraiser luncheon in Dallas for Annie's List, an organization that raises money and pro...
Cameron Todd Willingham is now a free man, but unfortunately it took death to release him from the confines of his prison bars.
While so many Texans have fought and are fighting the good fight in the Judge William Wayne Justice tradition, others believe in the law only when it sides with them.
Carl Sagan famously said that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The claim that killing prisoners acts as a deterrent or keeps police safe is indeed extraordinary.
Of the more than 40 people exonerated by DNA in Texas, one of the most heartbreaking cases is that of Timothy Cole, whose exoneration came too late. In 1999, he died in prison of asthma.
The Texas Forensic Science Commission controversy is ultimately not about politics or the death penalty. At stake is the integrity of scientific evidence in Texas courtrooms, and the erosion of public confidence.
It's clear that Cameron Todd Willingham was (mis)tried by a kangaroo court, but will justice be better served by the media zoo that's ensued?
Although a masterful writer, Tanenhaus gives his readers disembodied voices plucked from historical context, where the nexus of thought and action, theory and praxis, is either broken or simply ignored.
As the case against Cameron Todd Willingham, executed in 2004, sinks like a rock, the truth has started to float to the top and the rats are streaming out from all sides, led by none other than Texas Governor Rick Perry.
The noisiest critics of the federal government's role in health care, the economy, and education are recycling the rhetoric that was used to justify secession, segregation, and other injustices.
Gov. Rick Perry issued an executive order requiring that all Texas schoolgirls receive a questionable vaccine to prevent HPV. Doesn't that sound like expensive government intervention into a patient's health care?
The code words change over time (from "nullification" to "states' rights" to Pawlenty's "state sovereignty"), but the idea is the same -- we retain the right to ignore any laws we don't feel like following.
Since when do conservatives care about anyone dying? The most disturbing example is Cameron Todd Willingham, was sentenced to death after refusing a plea-bargain for life in prison in Texas.
Last night, as Obama spoke, the Republicans were busy saying the rest of the country ought to act like Texas. Texas is an awfully funny place to look for solutions to our health care crisis.
If you conduct a Google search for "Rick Perry" and "Washington," it turns out that you get 793,000 results. In the past 30 days alone there have been 1,116 news stories with the same search terms.
In addition to it being the morally right thing to do, investing in children is also the economically smart thing to do. Children constitute over half the Medicaid rolls but less than a quarter of its costs.
Summertime and the Republicans are crazy. I mean, literally crazy in a way that usually gets people kicked off public transportation.
All but three Republicans voted against the stimulus, yet they all are gladly taking the money. Seeing a trend here?
Governor Rick Perry's (R-TX) has appointed the worst and most dangerous state Board of Education ever, as well as Christian nationalist, history revisionist David Barton as an "expert" to review the state's social studies curriculum.
