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Texans for Obama Take New Mexico by Storm

Rachel Farris | Posted 10.21.2008 | Home

Read More: Texas, Road Trip for Change, Barack Obama, Obama Texas, Obama New Mexico, Offthebus 2008 Election, Election 2008, Obama Volunteers, John McCain, New Mexico, Campaign 2008, Home News
Rachel Farris

"The bathroom," our busdriver Jerry announced, "is like an outhouse. So don't use it unless it's an emergency. An' if you do have to use it, put the lid down. That'll help keep the smell down for the people in the back." Five rows from the back of the bus, I observed those around me looking uncomfortably at one another.

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Changing Colors in the Lone Star State

Deanie Mills | Posted 10.20.2008 | Home

Read More: Texas, Gerrymander Delay, Obama deLay, Gerrymander Texas, Texas Obama, Texas Delay, Democrats Texas, Texas Obama Gerrymander, Home News
Deanie Mills

Obama is running ads here around the clock. His Texas organization is well-trained, well-funded, well-organized and fighting for every single vote. It's purple here -- despite Tom DeLay's gerrymandered voting map.

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Armyworms Marching On East Texas

AP | LINDA STEWART BALL | Posted 10.17.2008 | Green

Read More: Farming, Armyworms, Plagues, Texas, Animals, Ruined Crops, Livestock, Green News

DALLAS — Texas farmers are once again battling armyworms and the voracious creatures are attacking fields and pastures in formidable numbers. "...

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South Texas: Election Last Thing on Anyone's Mind After Hurricane Ike

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 10.12.2008 | Home

Read More: Recovery, Hurrican Ike, Louisiana, Disaster, Galveston, Texas, Election Coverage, Bolivar Peninsula, Search and Rescue, Texas McCain, Texas Election 2008, Texas Obama, Recovery Hurricane Ike, Hurricane Ike Election 2008, Texas Voters, Hurricane Ike Election, Politics Hurricane Ike, Home News
Georgianne Nienaber

Gas prices had been dropping daily due to the worldwide market crash, but for the people in south Texas, financial devastation was already old news. Was she worried about the election? No comment was offered--just a quizzical look.

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McCain/Palin No Mavericks, Say Real Mavericks

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Texas, Maverick, 2008 Campaign, John McCain, Palin, Sarah Palin, Fontaine Maverick, Politics News
Charles Karel Bouley

Fontaine Maverick, great-great-granddaughter of Samuel Augustus Maverick, for whom the word was coined, would like John McCain and Sarah Palin to stop misusing the word.

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Oh, yeah? Shove a Beer Can Up Your Butt.

Sophie Brickman | Posted 10.06.2008 | Style

Read More: Chicken, Culinary School, Barbecue, Smoking, Cooking, Beer, Bbq, Food, Grilling, Austin, Texas, Austin City Limits, Slow Cooked Chicken, Texas Cooking, Texan Dan, Style News
Sophie Brickman

Now almost done with the first level of culinary school, I found myself on the plane to Austin equally excited about the music festival I was going to as about the food.

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Georgia and Texas Senate Seats To Go Blue??

Bart Motes | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Elections, Texas, Jim Martin, Rick Noriega, Georgia, Politics News
Bart Motes

Even though these campaigns are operating almost completely under the radar, they could be the sleepers of 2008.

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Obama and Democrats Fighting Hard on GOP Turf

Paul Jenkins | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, North Dakota, Rick Noriega, Mitch McConnell, Nebraska, Al Franken, West Virginia, George W. Bush, Oregon, Colorado, Mary Landrieu, Democratic Party, Missouri, Sarah Palin, Virginia, Montana, New Mexico, John Kennedy, John Kerry, New Hampshire, Ohio, Saxby Chambliss, Elizabeth Dole, Mississippi, Republican Party, North Carolina, Florida, John McCain, Alaska, Ronnie Musgrove, Louisiana, Presidential Election, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Texas, Lindsey Graham, Pennsylvania, Bob Conley, Minnesota, John Cornyn, Wisconsin, Michigan, Wyoming, Georgia, Iowa, Jimmy Carter, Jeff Merkley, Hillary Clinton, Utah, Senate, Indiana, Electoral College, 2008 Election, Electoral Map, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

All told, 20 states are currently at high risk of loss by the Republican party in either the presidential election, the Senate race, or both. How is that for expanding the playing field?

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Blowback: Is Wind Power The New Ethanol?

The Atlantic | Matthew Quirk | Posted 09.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Energy, Wind Power, Texas, T. Boone Pickens, Cap-and-Trade, Alternative Energy, Green News

These are boom times for wind power. T. Boone Pickens, the wildcatter turned oil baron, is building the world's biggest wind farm, in the dry scrub of...

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Picky About the Pickens Plan

Christiana Wyly | Posted 09.23.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, George Bush, Energy Prices, Clean Coal, George W. Bush, Energy Crisis, Clean Energy, Big Oil Profits, Green Energy, Energy Policy, T. Boone Pickens Wind Turbines, Texas, Corn Prices, Oil Drilling, Green Technology, 2008 Presidential Race, T.Boone Pickens, Oil, Oil Prices, Natural Gas, President Bush, Pickens Plan, Green News
Christiana Wyly

"Son, I used to be IN the Oil Lobby! We don't have to worry about them. We the people are more powerful than any lobby any day of the week."

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Two Worlds

Sam Greenfield | Posted 09.22.2008 | Media

Read More: Texas, National Association of Broadcasters, Hurricane Ike, Disaster Relief, Hurricane Gustav, Media News
Sam Greenfield

They looked like they didn't have a lot of money. They didn't look like they were there for the NAB. They weren't. They were victims of Hurricane Ike.

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"Dear Sarah Palin: When the Myth Becomes Legend, What Should We Print?"

Steven Denlinger | Posted 09.22.2008 | Home

Read More: Print the Legend, Washington, George W. Bush, Harry Truman, Rorschach Test, Lion in Winter, Cowboy Myth, Power, Schmidt & Bounds, Sarah Palin, Dick Cheney, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, Robert Frost, New Covenant, Dick Nixon, Tucker Bounds, Russia, Jibjab, Old Testament, Left, People of Israel, " Commander Adama, Rove, Sarah Barracuda, Battlestar Galactica, Right, Bambi, John McCain, Karl Rove, Alaska, House, Gone With the Wind, Texas, Annie Oakley, Joe Biden, God, John Ford, Barack Obama, Old West, Pride Worm, It's Time for Some Campaigning, Bible, "Guns and Religion, Steven Schmidt, Fox News, Westerns, Joe Lieberman, Southerners, Home News
Steven Denlinger

THE PRIDE WORM Power's a funny thing. It's like one of those worms on the television show House, which goes in through your upturned nose and invade...

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No Train to Glory -- James Crumley, R.I.P.

Jan Herman | Posted 09.19.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: James Crumley, Books, Crime Thrillers, Texas, Crime Writer, Jack Kerouac, Hunter Thompson, Crime Writing, Raymond Chandler, John Schulian, Entertainment News
Jan Herman

James Crumley, the best crime writer of our generation, died, at 68, in a bed surrounded by his friends and family in Missoula. I never pictured him checking out so benignly, and I doubt that he did, either.

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Ike's Texas Wake Is Grim

AP | JUAN A. LOZANO and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN | Posted 09.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Extreme Weather, Hurricane Ike, Ike, Texas, Green News

GALVESTON, Texas — Authorities laid out a plan Friday _ a week after Hurricane Ike began lashing the Texas coast with 110-mph winds and relentle...

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Watch This Inspiring Video

Bart Motes | Posted 09.18.2008 | Media

Read More: Texas, Field Organizing, Barack Obama, Media News
Bart Motes

...and then go out and change the world. If that kind of energy and enthusiasm can be generated in Texas, what can you do in your home town? Omn...

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The Dead Core of McCain's Republican Party

Paul Jenkins | Posted 09.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Transportation, Immigration, Iraq, Race, Democratic Party, Sarah Palin, Stem Cell Research, Iran, Military, Phil Gramm, Carly Fiorina, Technology, Republican Party, African-American Issues, Abortion, Halliburton, Science, Free Trade, Hispanic Issues, Texas, Uzbekistan, Pennsylvania, Capitalism, Barack Obama, College, Oil, Health Care, Scranton, Energy, Gay Marriage, Economy, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

Now that it has thoroughly discredited the market economy it was ostensibly pushing, the Republican Party is left with no clear, logical economic agenda.

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Pig Lipstick by L'Oreal

Kate Clinton | Posted 09.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Texas, Lgbt, 2008 Election, Sarah Palin, Living News
Kate Clinton

Let L'Oreal come out with a new line of pig lipstick. I don't care.

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FEMA Struggles To Provide Aid As Ike Survivors May Wait Weeks For Food, Water And Electricity

AP | JUAN A. LOZANO | Posted 09.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Ike, Extreme Weather, Fema, Hurricane Ike, Texas, Green News

GALVESTON, Texas — About 250 people who withstood Hurricane Ike on a coastal sliver of land will be forced off it so crews can begin the recover...

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Sheltering Animals from the Storm

Michael Markarian | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pets, The Humane Society, Emergency, Ted Stevens, Louisiana, Gustav, Humane Society, Hanna, Texas, Tom Lantos, Christopher Shays, Animals, Frank Lautenberg, Disasters, Humane Society of the United States, Ike, Katrina, Hurricane, Politics News
Michael Markarian

Led by Senators Ted Stevens and Frank Lautenberg, and Reps. Tom Lantos and Chris Shays, the PETS Act set national policy on how to deal with animals in disasters in a post-Katrina environment.

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The New Bush

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, Texas, Storm, Alaska, Kathy Phillips, Terrorism, Palin, Point MacKenzie, Anchorage, Knik Arm Bridge, Appropriations, Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, Bridge to Nowhere, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Congressman Don Young, Meet the Press, Ted Stevens, Chuck Schumer, Trooper Gate, Politics News
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

We knew Bush wasn't "smart." And now we know Palin isn't either. But can Dems find a way to show why all these sorted facts matter?

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Ike Forces Gulf Coast Evacuations In Texas

AP | MICHAEL GRACZYK | Posted 09.11.2008 | Green

Read More: Hurricane Ike, Extreme Weather, Texas, Evacuation, Hurricanes, Ike, Gulf Coast, Green News

HOUSTON — Cars and trucks streamed inland and chemical companies buttoned up their plants Thursday as a gigantic Hurricane Ike took aim at the h...

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Ike Sights Texas, Gains Strength After Devastating Cuba

AP | WILL WEISSERT | Posted 09.10.2008 | Green

Read More: Extreme Weather, Hurricane Ike, Ike, Hurricanes, Texas, Cuba, Green News

HAVANA — Hurricane Ike grew stronger as it barreled across the warm, energizing waters of the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday toward the Texas coast af...

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John McCain Is Not George Bush, Sarah Palin Is

Alec Baldwin | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Palin Vp, John McCain, Governor of Texas, Palin Record, George W. Bush Governor, McCain Palin, McCain Bush Third Term, Sarah Palin Vice President, Texas, Sarah Palin Governor, Sarah Palin, Celebrities Talk Politics, Politics News
Alec Baldwin

Forget about the fact that Palin looks a lot like a really attractive TV star I know. Underneath all the Tina, she's George.

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The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Already Here!

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 08.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Little Odessa, Bp, Iron Curtain, Switzerland, Cote D'Azur, Colorado, Texas, Cannes, Snowmass, Bush, Soviet, Nato, Wealth, Black Gold, Oil, Russians, Billionaire, James Gray, We Own the Night, Cap-Ferrat, Business News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

The new tool to crush the opposition is funded by a new menace, that of capitalism built on a phenomenal wealth in commodities and oil.

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Wal-Mart Plays Fear Factor and Workers Lose

James P. Hoffa | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: United Food and Commercial Workers, Federal Election Commission, Employee Free Choice Act, Vlad the Impaler, Texas, Canada, Teamsters, Wall Street Journal, Wal-Mart, Fec, Politics News
James P. Hoffa

In an effort to push their anti-worker agenda, the corporate behemoth has begun herding its employees into mandatory meetings where the topic is simple and clear -- vote Republican, or else.

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