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Charlie Wilson: I'd Probably Shut Down The War In Afghanistan

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

Read More: Texas, u.s. Foreign Policy, Charlie Wilson, Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan Wars, President Obama, Charlie Wilson's War, u.s. Wars, Charlie Wilson Afghanistan, Afghanistan-Soviet War, World News

Charlie Wilson, the former Democratic representative from Texas and the inspiration for the movie (and book) Charlie Wilson's War sat down with the Sc...

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The Obama "Death" Poll on Facebook

Alexia Parks | Posted 10.02.2009 | Denver

Read More: Florida, George W. Bush, Poll, Texas, Jeb Bush, Facebook, Barack Obama, Votelink, Denver News
Alexia Parks

So the Secret Service has discovered that the person who put the "Should Obama be Killed?" poll on Facebook was only a kid, and they've shut the books...

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Texas Case Angers Foes of Gay Divorce

Andy Borowitz | Posted 10.02.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Texas, Andy Borowitz, Dallas, Gay Marriage, Gay-Divorce, Comedy News
Andy Borowitz

A Texas judge's ruling that two gay men married in another state can get a divorce in Texas has drawn the ire of opponents of gay divorce there.

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Cameron Todd Willingham: Texas Governor Dismisses 3 Commission Members Just 48 Hours Before Arson Review

AP | JEFF CARLTON | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Execution, Capitol Punishment, Rick Perry, Texas, Craig Beyler, Willingham, Beyler Report, Cameron Todd Willingham, Arson Finding, Texas Forensic Science Commission, Innocence Project, Death Penalty, Politics News

DALLAS — A report concluding a faulty investigation led to a Texas man's execution won't be reviewed by a state board as planned Friday after Go...

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Hosam Maher Husein Smadi Arrested For Dallas Bomb Plot

AP | ANABELLE GARAY | Posted 11.24.2009 | Home

Read More: Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, Texas, Dallas Bomb Plot, Hosam Maher Husein Smadi Bomb Plot, Dallas, Home News

DALLAS — A 19-year-old Jordanian man living in Texas was arrested Thursday on charges he intended to bomb a downtown Dallas skyscraper, federal ...

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Bearing Witness 2.0: Economy Forces One Family Business To Move Jobs Overseas

Posted 11.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Outsourcing, Texas, Global Recession, Farm Bill, Bearing Witness 2.0, Business News

Sarah Atkinson Ramirez shared her story with HuffPost. Her story affect her entire town, a town that her family helped build. Sarah runs the Atkinso...

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John Tyler High School: Teacher Stabbed To Death At Texas High School, Say Police

AP | Posted 11.23.2009 | Home

Read More: Texas, Tyler Texas, High School, John Tyler High School, School Violence, John Tyler High School Stabbing, John Tyler Stabbing, Home News

Police say a teacher has been stabbed to death at a high school in Texas.

Tyler police spokesman Don Martin says the male teacher was stabbed around 9 a.m. Wednesday. Authorities have taken a juvenile into custody after the attack at John Tyler High School.

No other details were immediately released. Martin referred further questions to the school spokeswoman, who did not immediately return messages left by The Associated Press.

Tyler is located about 95 miles southeast of Dallas.

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The Roses of October

James Moore | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Texans, Texas, Texas Politics, Living News
James Moore

Anger and vitriol in the public discourse continue to nudge me toward looking elsewhere for a place to live but I cannot leave Texas.

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Blockbuster Closings: Up To 960 Stores May Be Closed

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: DVD Rentals, Entertainment, Movie Studios, Blockbuster Closings, Redbox, Stores, Hollywood Video, Texas, Store Locations, Netflix, Movie Rentals, Blockbuster, Dallas, Blu-Ray, Business News

SAN FRANCISCO — Blockbuster Inc. may close as many as 960 stores by the end of next year, shedding more dead weight as the struggling video rent...

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Willingham Prosecutor's Lack of Doubt Too Extreme

Amy Bach | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Amy Bach, New Yorker, David Grann, Texas, Cameron Todd Willingham, Chicago Tribune, Indigent Defendants, Innocence Project, Innocence, Prosecutors, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Corsicana, Politics News
Amy Bach

As the Willingham case demonstrates, there's a certain kind of behavioral reaction by people who work in courts -- prosecutors especially -- that defends the system over all contrary evidence.

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Emerging GOP Theme: Nullification

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Gop, Bill of Rights, The People, Eighteenth Century, State, Wickard v Filburn, Secession, James Madison, Secede, Democratic, Scotus, Civil War, Perry, Governor, President, John C Calhoun, Republican, Jefferson, Pawlenty, Gonzales v Raich, New Yorker, Federal Government, Bonkers in Georgia, Union, Nullification Crisis, Rick Perry, Virginia Resolution, Kentucky Resolutions, States, State Sovereignty, Hertzberg, Alabama, States Rights, Democrat, Congress, Thomas Jefferson, Texas, 10th Amendment, Democrats, Minnesota, Hendrik Hertzberg, John Calhoun, Tenth Amendment, Nullification, Constitution, Chris Weigant, Madison, South Carolina, Georgia, Tim Pawlenty, Court, Calhoun, Politics News
Chris Weigant

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.

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Dare Devils: Governor Rick Perry and the Texas Death Panel

Rachel Farris | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texas, Cameron Todd Willingham, Obamacare, Death Penalty Debate, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Sarah Palin, Health Care Reform, Death Penalty, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Innocence Project, Rick Perry, Sharon Keller, Politics News
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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Perry Sends Rangers To Texas-Mexico Border

AP | MICHAEL GRACZYK | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texas, Department of Public Safety, Immigration, Texas Rangers, BORDER ISSUES, Rick Perry, Mexico Drug Wars, Politics News

HOUSTON — Special teams of Texas Rangers will be deployed to the Texas-Mexico border to deal with increasing violence because the federal govern...

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The Executioner's Song

Glenn W. Smith | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texas, Obama Speech, Health Care, Rick Perry, Politics News
Glenn W. Smith

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.

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Priceless: Texas School District Refuses Obama Speech, Sends Kids to Hear Bush

Jackson Williams | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Arlington, Texas, Education, President Obama, Dallas Cowboys, Forth Worth Star Telegram, Education Speech to Students, Politics News
Jackson Williams

School officials in Arlington, TX declined to show Obama's pro-education speech this week. However, later this month, the district will bus selected classes to an event featuring George W. Bush.

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When Infanticide Isn't Murder

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Murder, Abortion, Texas, Mercy, Politics, Human Rights, Children, Crime, Motherhood, Parenting, Bioethics, Infanticide, Politics News
Jacob M. Appel

In the wake of a series of highly-publicized killings of young children by Texas mothers suffering from post-partum mental disorders, a state representative from Houston has introduced long overdue legislation that will recognize the mitigating circumstances surrounding such acts.

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Gregoria Martinez: 300 Grandchildren Survive 94-Year-Old Grandmother

Houston Chronicle | Ann Work | Posted 11.08.2009 | Home

Read More: Gregoria Martinez, 300 Grandkids, Texas, Grandma, 300 Grandchildren, Home News

Gregoria Martinez, 94, might seem like your typical grandma. She made quilts for her grandchildren, encouraged them to go to church, prayed for them, ...

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Today's Lesson: Undermining a Black Man's Authority in 2009

Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Texas, Obama, Race, Diversity, Obama School Speech, Politics News
Natalie Holder-Winfield

Refusing to air the president's speech and pulling a child from school are brazen acts that, in essence, put the President Obama in his place.

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Education in Chicago: Thank God We're Not Texans!

Bill Sweetland | Posted 10.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: High-School Academic Graducation Credits, High School Sports, Football, Texas, Texas State Legislature, Texas State Board of Education, Texas High School Football, Sports, No Child Left Behind, Texas High School Athletes, Chicago News
Bill Sweetland

However silly, misguided, and stupid our opinions and actions regarding our schools may be, at least we ain't as bad as them Texans.

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Ex-US Soldier Gets 5 Life Sentences For Iraqi Deaths

AP | BRETT BARROUQUERE | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

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PADUCAH, Ky. — A former soldier received five consecutive life sentences Friday for his role in the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenager and the...

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The Lies of Texas Are Upon You

James Moore | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Racism, Texas, Texas Culture, Obama Speech, Texas Politics, Obama Texas, Barack Obama Students, Racism, Obama School Speech, Politics News
James Moore

We tell people not to mess with Texas but that's because we reserve the right to mess it up ourselves, which we are doing quite effectively.

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No Blacklisters Please: Decency in P3 Contracting

Michael Likosky | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dulles Airport Expansion, Dorchester Tunnel, Balfour Beatty, United Kingdom Informaiton Commissioner, Public-Private Partnerships, Connecticut, Texas, p3, North Antelope Rochelle Mine, Chicago Parking Meters, California, Public Works, Highway 130, Virginia, City of Norwalk Parking Authority, Economic League, Blacklisting, Wyoming, LAZ Parking, Metro Goldline, Alfred Cunningham Bridge, Privacy, Massachusetts, Alameda Corridor, North Carolina, Illinois, Vinci, Politics News
Michael Likosky

The United Kingdom Information Commissioner recently named Balfour Beatty and LAZ Parking Company's parent, Vinci, as having funded a secret 15-year long blacklisting operation.

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Still Clinging to the Barbarity of the Death Penalty

Byron Williams | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texas, Exoneration, Corsicana, New Yorker, Death Row, Cameron Todd Willingham, Death Penalty Advocates, Death Penalty Debate, David Grann, Death Penalty, Arson, Innocence Project, Barry Scheck, Politics News
Byron Williams

Since it is impossible to avoid error, the only way one can support the death penalty is to suggest that we have expendable portions of society.

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Chris Matthews Slams Gov. Rick Perry For Secessionist Group Involvement: "Ignorance Of These People Is Unbelievable" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texas, Hardball, Video, Chris Matthews Rick Perry, Video Chris Matthews Video, Hardball Video, Texas Secession, Chris Matthews, Rick Perry, Rick Perry Texas Secession, Politics News

Despite the ridicule Texas Governor Rick Perry received when he suggested during a 'tea party' protest that Texas could secede from the Union if it wa...

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Cameron Todd Willingham: Did Texas Execute An Innocent Man?

Huffington Post | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Criminal Justice System, Capital Punishment, Cameron Willingham Innocence, Crime, Elizabeth Gilbert, Texas, Arson, Innocence Project, Barry Sheck, Cameron Todd Willingham Execution, Dna Testing, Gerald Hurst, Cameron Willingham Execution, Cameron Todd Willingham, Death Penalty, Cameron Willngham Death Penalty, Death Row, Politics News

Huffington Post blogger Barry Scheck, of the Innocence Project, weighs in on the new evidence revealed by an investigative report in the New Yorker on...

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