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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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Is Bernie Goldberg Right? Had Bush "In Fact Volunteered to Go to Vietnam?"

Thomas Lipscomb | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texas Air National Guard, Texas, Chicago Sun-Times, Mary Mapes, Vietnam War, George W. Bush, CBS News, Vietnam, Dan Rather, Bernard Goldberg, Air Force, Gregory Peck, Rathergate, Politics News

Bernard Goldberg has unearthed a "lost fact" in the Rathergate mess: that George W. Bush volunteered to serve in Vietnam. Until valid paperwork is produced, that claim will remain a supposition.

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Allen Stanford Hospitalized

AP | JUAN A. LOZANO | Posted 09.27.2009 | Business

Read More: R. Allen Stanford, Texas, Allen Stanford, Stanford Hospitalized, Business News

HOUSTON — The former finance chief for jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford said his boss created a business empire where blood oaths were t...

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Lady of the Hour: LeToya Luckett Takes on R&B, Love & Self

Marjon Rebecca Carlos | Posted 09.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Texas, Destiny's Child, Houston, R&b, Lady Love, LeToya Luckett, Beyoncé, Entertainment News

Having already released two singles from Lady Love, "Not Anymore" and "She Ain't Got, "Ms. Luckett is well on her way to leaving her own "thumbprint", as she likes to put it, on R&B music.

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The Economic Costs of Uninsured Children

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Health Insurance, Health Care, Economy, Children's Health Insurance, Texas, Basker Institute, Texas State Legislature, Rick Perry, Business News

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.

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WATCH: Front Goup "Energy Citizens" Locks Out Real Grassroots: Why Does Big Oil Hate America?

Andy Wilson | Posted 09.21.2009 | Green

Though the Netroots has gotten the message loud and clear: these are really just company picnics, not uprisings of real grassroots support

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Big Oil Astroturf Rally in Houston More Company Picnic Than Grassroots Campaign

Andy Wilson | Posted 09.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Public Citizen, Api, #FrontGroupFAIL, Texas, Global Warming, Crap and Trade, Big Oil, Cap and Tax, Energy Citizens, Front Groups, Citizen Sarah, Climate Change, Aces, Waxman-Markey, Astroturf, Green News

Yesterday the Public Citizen Texas team drove down to Houston to crash the American Petroleum Institute's Energy Citizen event. Billed as a "grassroots" rally against the cap-and-trade bill currently before Congress, this event was nothing more than a company picnic.

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Big Oil Companies Behind "Citizen" Protests Of Climate Bill

nytimes.com | CLIFFORD KRAUSS and JAD MOUAWAD | Posted 09.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy-Technology, Energy, Texas, Climate Bill Protests, Accce, Energy Town Halls, Energy Citizen, Big Oil, Oil, Clean Energy, Green Energy, Green News

HOUSTON -- Hard on the heels of the health care protests, another citizen movement seems to have sprung up, this one to oppose Washington's attempts t...

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Sonnier's Release Highlights Continuing Problem

John Terzano | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: National Academy of Sciences, Dna Testing, Texas, Wrongful Conviction, The Justice Project, Forensic Science, Criminal-Justice-Reform, Crime, Politics News

Ernest Sonnier's release is just the latest case that highlights the ongoing problem of wrongful convictions in Texas. And writ large, it is a reminder of the continuing struggle we face to fix our nation's broken criminal justice system.

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How a Democratic Candidate for Texas Governor Relates to the Town Hall Mobs

Rachel Farris | Posted 09.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Richard Scott HCA, Texas Primary, Texas, Town Hall, Health Care Reform, Tom Schieffer, Texas Governor, Health Care, Conservatives for Patients' Rights, Politics News

Ambassador Tom Schieffer, you wannabe-Democratic-nominee-for-Governor of Texas, hoping to skim past the primary, you have friends who are "no tells-ies" of your own.

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George Vera, Obese Texas Inmate, Hides Gun In His Flabs Of Fat

AP | Posted 09.08.2009 | Home

Read More: George Vera Texas, Texas, George Vera, Texas Inmate Fat, Home News

HOUSTON — An obese inmate in Texas has been charged after officials learned he had a gun hidden under flabs of his own flesh. Twenty-five-year-...

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Fertilizer Chemical Linked to Toxic Blaze

Juli Charkes | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Texas, Fertilizer, Toxic, Terrorism, Environment, Fire, El Dorado Chemical Plant, Security, Bryan, Green News

The chemical arsenal Americans rely on to help cultivate crops turns out to be the same one used for warfare and acts of domestic terrorism.

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What If: The Non-Profit Media Model

John Thornton | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Times, Michael Arrington, Texas Tribune, Texas, Nonprofits, Hedge Funds, Media News

In Micro 101, we learn that such "public goods" as clean air and national defense will not be produced in sufficient supply exclusively by market forces. Allow for the sake of argument that journalism is such a good.

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Kay Bailey Hutchison Will Resign For Gubernatorial Race

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texas, Senate, Texas Governor, 2010 Elections, Rick Perry, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Texas 2010, Politics News

U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison said in a radio interview that she expects to step down from the Senate around October or November to battle fellow Rep...

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Dozens Arrested In Medicare Fraud Busts Across US

AP | KELLI KENNEDY | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Texas, Houston, Medical Fraud Raids Houston, Medical Fraud Raids, Medical Fraud, Business News

MIAMI — Federal authorities arrested more than 30 suspects, including doctors, and were seeking others in a major Medicare fraud bust Wednesday ...

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Cursing In Tyler Texas, a Grievous Offense?

Carol Hoenig | Posted 08.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Second Contribution, Beatles, Adirondacks, Curses, Bergfeld Park Amphitheater, Texas, Ravi Shankar, Curse Words, Shawn Phillips, Tyler, Afghanistan, Iraq, Living News

Maybe the angry father has his own big issues that bother him, but he would do better teaching his children about justice and loving one's neighbor instead of making curse words the enemy.

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Off The Charts Drought In Texas, Tornadoes In New York (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 08.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Texas, Texas Drought, Drought, Video, New York Tornadoes, Extreme Texas Drought, Extreme Weather, Tornadoes, Green News

MSNBC has an alarming report about the extreme weather conditions happening across the country. In Texas, half the corn crop is dried up, lakes have d...

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Giant Blobs Of Oil Washing Up On Texas Beaches

AP | Posted 08.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Texas, Oil, Oil Spill Texas, South Padre Island, Texas Oil Beaches, Oil Spill Texas Blobs of Oil, Green News

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas — Gooey oil blobs as big as basketballs have been washing up on the sandy beaches of South Padre Island in Texas, offi...

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Monkey Trained To Steal Caught On Tape (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 08.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Animal Video, Texas, Monkey Trained to Steal, Monkey Thief, Video, Animals, Monkey Steals From Nursery, Texas Monkey Thief, Green News

This is one strange story. We found this news report about a surveillance camera that caught a monkey stealing hundreds of dollars worth of plants fro...

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Fared Shafinury: Austin Singer-Songwriter Learns The Hard Way Not To Jam In Tehran Park (VIDEO)

Diane Tucker | Posted 08.21.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Fared Shafinury, Music Capital of the World, Iran Election, Women’s Rights, Tehran, Iranian Music, Daf, Austin, Texas, Tehranosaurus.com, Singer-Songwriters, Diane Tucker, Setar, Stone Garden, Ershad, Lyrics, Music, Iran Protests, War Poetry, Park Jamshidiye, Forugh Farokhzad, Underground Music, University of Texas, Hafez, Arianaz, Cactus Cafe, Omar Khayyam, Mohammad Reza Lotfi, Foreign Affairs, Video, Global Music, Advocacy, Global Music Corner, Diane Tucker Fared, Fared, Huffington Post Fared, Linda Bergthold, World News

Classically trained musician Fared Shafinury grew up in Corpus Christi, went to college at the University of Texas, and yet somehow always felt too Iranian for South Texas. So the American singer-songwriter moved to Iran.

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Wall Street: A (Sometimes Deadly) Insiders Game

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 08.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Texas, Swapping, Flipping, Trust, Economics, Goldman Sachs, Bush Jr., Insiders, Financial Crisis, Tax Evasions, Bankers, Biotech, Business, Real Estate, Oil Companies, Offshoreipos, Cibc, Business News

The reasons why some banks are protected and others are left to fail reaches up to the highest echelons of power.

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The Idiocy of Texas and the Threat of David Barton

Chris Rodda | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Historical Revisionism, Education, Texas, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, American History, David Barton, Randy Forbes, Politics News

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.

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Rick Perry Asks For Federal Loan After Rejecting Stimulus

Think Progress | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Perry Stimulus Flip-Flop, Rick Perry Stimulus, Rick Perry, Texas, Rick Perry Secession, Perry Secession Stimulus, Politics News

In March, Texas Gov. Rick Perry rejected $555 million in federal stimulus money that would have expanded unemployment benefits for Texans. Perry argue...

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Culture War Flares Up Over American History Curriculum In Texas Classrooms

The Wall Street Journal | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texas, Culture Wars, Education, Bible, Creationism, American History, CéSar CháVez, Curriculum u.s. History, Christianity, Texas Board of Education, Evolution, Constitution, Thurgood Marshall, Church State Separation, Politics News

The fight over school curriculum in Texas, recently focused on biology, has entered a new arena, with a brewing debate over how much faith belongs in ...

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False Confessions: What Would It Take to Make You Confess?

John Terzano | Posted 08.14.2009 | Home

Read More: False Confessions, Criminal Justice System, The Justice Project, New York Times, Reform, Texas, Policy, Chicago Tribune, Electronic-Recording, Home News

Most people find it hard to understand how anyone could ever confess to a crime they did not commit. But it happens over and over again. False confessions are a well-documented reality.

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