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Gov. Rick Perry: Cameron Todd Willingham "Was A Monster"

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

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Texas Governor Rick Perry insisted again on Wednesday that the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham was appropriate and that Texas did not, contrary t...

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Trial by Firefight

Rob Fishman | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media

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Rob Fishman

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?

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Welcome to Texas: The Death Penalty State

Rachel Farris | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

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Rachel Farris

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.

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Gov. Rick Perry Once Pushed Government Intervention in Health Care

Matt Mackowiak | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

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Matt Mackowiak

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?

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Dare Devils: Governor Rick Perry and the Texas Death Panel

Rachel Farris | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

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Rachel Farris

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.

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Gov. Rick Perry's Anti-Washington Rhetoric is Political Double Talk

Matt Mackowiak | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

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Matt Mackowiak

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.

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Rick Perry Aide: Don't Open Up GOP Like A "Whorehouse"

AP | KELLEY SHANNON | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A comment by a strategist for Gov. Rick Perry that the Republican Party shouldn't open itself "like a whorehouse" to new voters h...

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Dickipedia: Rick Perry

Dickipedia | Posted 06.18.2009 | Comedy

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James Richard "Rick" Perry (born March 4, 1950) is the secession-happy governor of Texas, an outspoken Christian Conservative despite the fact that ou...

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Threats of Secession and Other Recent Republican Rhetoric

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics

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Lincoln Mitchell

Those on the far right can't have it both ways, calling for revolution and secession on the one hand, while protesting a report raising concerns about right wing extremist violence on the other.

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Rick Perry Should Stop Embarrassing Texas

Joe Cutbirth | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

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Joe Cutbirth

Partisanship and political philosophy aside, I can think of few things more irresponsible in this economy than the governor of Texas speaking freely about secession.

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Drug Policy Reform: Is the Timing Perfect, or Are We Ahead of the Times?

Stanton Peele | Posted 03.31.2009 | Living

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Stanton Peele

Are those of us who seek changes in the American approach to drugs whistling in the dark, or is now the time to strike?

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Neo-Confederacy Erupts with Governors' Rejection of Stimulus Money

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

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Joseph A. Palermo

Today, the Neo-Confederacy obstructs the federal government's attempt to alleviate some of the suffering of the descendants of those slaves even while the nation endures its worst economic disaster in 70 years.

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