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Fire Steals Possessions, Job, Security From Single Mother Of 6 Kids

HuffPost | Victoria Fine | Posted 12.21.2009 | Impact

Read More: Texas, Cruz Ayala, Houston, Charity, House Fire, Houston Food Bank, 12 Days 12 Cities 12 Families, Donations, House of Amos, Impact News

This story is part of HuffPost Impact's 12 Days, 12 Cities, 12 Families series, highlighting Americans who have persevered to overcome incredible chal...

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The Village Church Updates Status Of Pastor Matt Chandler Via Twitter, Facebook

Posted 12.16.2009 | Technology

Read More: Texas, Religion, Megachurch, Twitter, Matt Chandler, Pastor Matt Chandler, Social Networking, Facebook, Technology, The Village Church, Technology News

The Village Church, a megachurch in Texas encompassing three communities, is utilizing the social networking sites Twitter and Facebook to update its ...

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Texas Secessionist Pulls Out Of Race For Governor

Miami Herald | Dave Montgomery | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Larry Kilgore, Texas, Gop, Debra Medina, Secessionist, Texas Republicans, Gov Rick Perry, Texas Governor, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republicans, Politics News

The Republican primary battle for governor shrank Tuesday with the exit of secessionist candidate Larry Kilgore of Mansfield, while wealthy Houston bu...

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Miranda Lambert Embraces Role of Denver's Honky-Tonk Woman

Michael Bialas | Posted 12.15.2009 | Denver

A self-proclaimed redneck who enjoys talkin' and singin' about boys, booze and bullets, Miranda Lambert was made to play the Grizzly Rose Saloon & Dance Emporium.

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Annise Parker: Openly Gay Mayor Elected In Houston, Texas

AP/ Huffington Post | Posted 12.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Annise Parker Elected, Texas, Politics News, Annise Parker Wins, Houston, Houston Gay Mayor, Annise Parker Mayor, Openly Gay Mayor, Annise Parker Openly Gay Mayor Texas, Annise Parker Openly Gay Mayor Houston, Annise Parker, Politics News

Annise Parker has an unbeatable lead over Gene Locke in Houston's hotly contested mayoral election, meaning she will become the city's first openly ga...

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Annise Parker: Houston Voters May Elect Openly Gay Mayor

AP | MONICA RHOR | Posted 12.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Openly Gay Mayor, Texas, Houston, Houston Gay Mayor, Annise Parker Mayor, Annise Parker, Politics News

HOUSTON — Annise Parker has an unbeatable lead over Gene Locke in Houston's hotly contested mayoral election, meaning she will become the city's...

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Single Mother Escapes Decade Of Alleged Slavery In Texas

AP | ANABELLE GARAY | Posted 12.11.2009 | Home

Read More: Texas, Slavery, Forced Labor, Indentured Servitude, Nigeria, Ngozi Nnaji, Emmanuel Nnaji, Single Mother, Widow, Home News

DALLAS — She was a widow in a Nigerian village trying to raise six children when she says she met a man who told her he and his wife needed a na...

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Only in America: Ambassador Sichan Siv - From the Killing Fields to the White House

Jim Luce | Posted 12.12.2009 | World

Read More: White House, Washington, National Republican Women’s’ Club, Angkor Wat, United Nations, Slave-Labor Camp, Thought Leaders, Phnom Penh, Thailand, Golden Bones, Global Citizens, Voice of America, Global China Connection, Vietnam, Jim Luce, Jean-Michel Tijerina, Columbia Business School, Making It in America, John Lee, Cambodian Cowboy, Martha Pattillo Siv, Presbyterian, Theravada Buddhist, Cambodia Project, Khmer Rouge, Gavin Newton-Tanzer, Texas, Hollywood Movie, Bangkok, Fall of Saigon, New York City, Mandarin, Columbia University, Care, Pol Pot, Sichan Siv, Cambodia, Killing Fields, New York Times, Refugee Camp, Buddhism, Orphans International Worldwide, Khmer, Takeo, World News

I first met Ambassador Sichan Siv in 2004. He spoke on surviving Pol Pot's Killing Fields in Cambodia - and coming to America. He ended up working in the White House and then the United Nations.

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Anti-Gay Activists Trying To Derail Houston Mayoral Campaign

The Daily Beast | Benjamin Sarlin | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texas, Gay Rights, Gene Locke Houston Mayor, Houston, Annise Parker, Houston Mayoral Election, Houston Mayor, Gene Locke, Annise Parker Houston Mayor, Politics News

Gay-rights advocates, coming off stinging defeats of same-sex marriage legislation in New York and Maine, could get a boost this week in--of all place...

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Cops Find 241 Pounds Of Pot After High Speed Chase (VIDEO)

Posted 12.06.2009 | Home

Read More: Texas, Pot Car Chase, South Laredo Car Chase, High Speed Car Chase, High Speed Chase, Marijuana, Drugs, Pot, Home News

A dramatic high speed chase on Sunday afternoon in South Laredo, Texas ended with a seizure of over 200 pounds of Marijuana. According to the Sheriff...

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Video From Death Row: Possibly Retarded Prisoner Faces Execution

Renee Feltz | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Renee Feltz, Texas, Death Row, Execution, Texas Observer, Bobby Woods, Capital Punishment, Politics News

As Texas reopens its execution chamber after a Thanksgiving break, the first man set to die may be mentally retarded.

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In 1963, A First State Dinner For The Record Books

Craig "Meathead" Goldwyn | Posted 11.30.2009 | Style

Read More: Food, Texas, Lbj Ranch, Lbj, Lyndon Johnson, Barbecue, Lady Bird Johnson, Cooking, Bbq, State Dinner, Cuisine, Barbeque, Style News

LBJ's first state dinner was a barbecue in Texas for West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. No politician ever used the conviviality and informality of eating outdoors better than the 36th president.

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Texas Teachers Volunteer To 'Launch' Students To Success

Posted 11.16.2009 | Impact

Read More: Afterschool Program, Tutoring, Homework, Education, Volunteering, Texas, Teachers, Students, Impact News

A middle school in Lake Jackson, Texas, is providing a launching pad to success for its students through a grassroots afterschool program, reports The...

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Laura Bush Opens Up (VIDEO): 'There's Great Relief ... When You Leave The White House'

Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Texas, Laura Bush Memoir, Laura Bush, Laura Bush Life, Dallas Performing Arts Center, Dallas, Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Politics News

How is life these days for Laura Bush? "Freedom," "relief," and "relaxed" were a few of the words Bush used to describe it in her interview with CBS'...

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Man Distracted By Bird Drives Bugatti Into Marsh

AP | Posted 11.13.2009 | Home

Read More: Bugatti Crash, Bugatti, Texas, Bugatti Marsh, Home News

LA MARQUE, Texas — A man blamed a low-flying pelican and a dropped cell phone for his veering his million-dollar sports car off a road and into ...

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Alimony Reform

Fred Silberberg | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Texas, Personal Responsibility, Alimony, Marriage, Welfare, Family Law, Standard of Living, Spousal-Support, Living News

While the initial concept of alimony was intended to assist someone in taking steps to support himself or herself, our existing system has turned into a system of private welfare.

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14 Best Cities For Jobs: The Milken Institute

Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Slidehuge, Wages, Economy, Employment, Slidepoll, Jobs, Job Growth, Recession, Austin Texas, Texas, Unemployment, Salary, Economic Growth, Technology, North Carolina, Business News

Job seekers take heed, the best cities to find work may be in Texas. The Milken Institute, a nonpartisan economic think tank, released its annual Best...

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The Real Red Flag Raised By Fort Hood

David A. Love | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: US Military, Persian Gulf, War on Terror, Trauma, War in Afghanistan, Timothy McVeigh, Muslim Americans, Afghan War, Violence, Psychology, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Gun Violence, Politics News, Politics, Iraq PTSD, Iraq Veterans, Military, Vietnam War, Nidal Malik Hasan, Muslims, Ptsd, Us Troops Afghanistan, National Institutes of Health, Psychiatry, Depression, Fort Hood, Mental Health, Crime, Terrorism, War, Suicide, Iraq Veterans' Mental Health, War in Iraq, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, Texas, Army, Anti-Muslim Bias, Muslim, Oklahoma City Bombing, Fort Hood Shootings, Living News

As a repository for violence, the military is not dealing with untreated mental illness among its ranks. The fact that Hasan was a mental health professional underscores the problem.

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The Best Biscuits in Brooklyn

Ed Levine | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

Read More: New York Restaurants, New York, Texas, Southern-Food, Joaquin Baca, Restaurant Reviews, Brooklyn Star, New York News

Serious New York eaters like me tend to romanticize the biscuits we find ourselves eating here, so we overstate their deliciousness, but Brooklyn Star's biscuits are the real deal.

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Tagged.com Settles With New York, Texas Over Invite Fight

AP | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

Read More: Marketing, Texas, Andrew Cuomo, Invitation Emails, Social Networking, Tagged.com Identity Theft, tagged.com, New York, New York News

NEW YORK — The social networking Web site Tagged.com has adopted reforms on the use of invitation e-mails after being accused of essentially ste...

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Is Ft. Hood Like Columbine? By Columbine's Dave Cullen

Newsweek | Dave Cullen | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home

Read More: Dylan Klebold, Islam, Ft. Hood, Columbine Book, Crime, Eric Harris, Ethnicity, Bullying, Terrorism, Fort Hood, Fort Hood Victims, 9/11, Virginia Tech, Guns, Colorado, Texas, Columbine, Religion, Soldiers, Military, Fort Hood Analysis, Psychiatrist, US Soldiers, Nidal Hasan, Ptsd, Home News

My brain is about to bust with all the apparent parallels to Columbine, Virginia Tech and 9/11, and the startling differences to each as well. But the...

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The Unemployment Extension Depends Just as Much on the States as on the White House

David Adkins | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business

Read More: State Government, Virginia, Texas, Unemployment, Louisiana, Maryland, Indiana, Unemployment Extension, Business News

Despite encouraging signs of growth in the economy the unemployment crisis is going to be with us for a long time to come. It has left states caught in a vice between plummeting revenues and rising needs.

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Raymond Jessop, Texas Polygamist Sect Member, Guilty Of Sex Assault

AP | MICHELLE ROBERTS | Posted 11.06.2009 | Home

Read More: Raymond Jessop, Texas Polygamist Sect, Polygamy, Texas, Polygamists, Home News

ELDORADO, Texas — The first polygamist sect member to face criminal trial following last year's raid at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in West Texa...

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Black Ops and Fort Hood

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Malik Hassan, Fort Hood Shooter, Fort Hood, Afghanistan, Texas, Virginia Tech, Arabic, Alyssa Peterson, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Politics News

There are lots of places to start looking if we want clues as to what happened at an Army base at Fort Hood, Texas. One obvious clue is Virginia Tech....

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Actor Matthew Marsden Hides Right-Wing Political Views

Jackson Williams | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Black Hawk Down, Jerry Falwell, Council for National Policy, Pat Boone, Ronald Reagan, Bruce Willis, Media, Michelle Bachman, Austin American Statesman, Rambo, Dixie Chicks, Forum on the Family, Nra, Phyllis Schlafly, Matthew Marsden, Susan Sarandon, Gary Sinise, James Dobson, Eagle Forum, Moral Majority, Austin, Barry Levinson, Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, Discovery Institute, Poliwood, Ed Meese, Creative Coalition, Barbra Streisand, Texas, Edwin Meese, Hollywood, Left Behind Books, Tim LaHay, Barack Obama, Clint Eastwood, Left Behind, George Gilder, Miranda Ruling, Mel Gibson, Entertainment, Chuck Norris, Charlton Heston, New York Times, Tim Pawlenty, Tony Perkins, Politics News

If Matthew Marsden is really honored to hang out with anti-gay, religious-right hate mongers -- and that's who he flew halfway across the country to be with in private -- then he should do it in the light of day.

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