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07.02.10
Mobile homeless: America's professional gypsies.(Culture)

JIM LINK was paying his way through Texas A&M tending bar. Darker than Kathy Kessler and two inches taller, he was serving drinks on the patio of a student pub. She thought him a goofball and younger than she, though he was seven months older. He thought her distant and dazzling. They married three Publication: The American Conservative

03.07.10
Funny: TX-22 dems nominate LaRouche devotee - Impeach Obama platform

"One of the strangest results of the Texas Primary on March 2nd was the nomination of one Kesha Rogers as the Democratic candidate for Congress in the 22nd District which encompasses a four county area in and around Houston and includes a lot of aerospace workers at the Johnson Space Center. Kesha Rogers won her nomination by tooling around in a sound truck, proclaiming the slogan ‘Save NASA.

03.05.10
Death By Teabag?

I have a confession to make. When the whole "Tea Party" thing first started, i was tremendously excited. I thought it was all about me. And while I richly deserve such accolades, it was a bit surprising.

I was quite disappointed when I discovered that it wasn't all about me. But lately, I've been a bit relieved. After all, those "teabaggers" are scary dangerous.

First up, there's that guy who attacked the Pentagon yesterday. He's got "Tea Party" written all over him. A Bush-hating 9/11 truther and pothead who...

Actually, that sounds like Michael Moore.

11.02.09
Planned Parenthood Leader Becomes Pro-Lifer After Seeing Ultrasound

Abby Johnson was a Director of Planned Parenthood in College Station Texas, until she saw an ultrasound of the procedure pro-abortionists refer to euphemistically as "Choice."

Planned Parenthood has been a part of Abby Johnson’s life for the past eight years; that is until last month, when Abby resigned. Johnson said she realized she wanted to leave, after watching an ultrasound of an abortion procedure. “I just thought I can’t do this anymore, and it was just like a flash that hit me and I thought that’s it,” said Jonhson.

11.01.09
California vs. Texas: The Verdict Is In

Texas, increasingly, is the economic and intellectual leader of the U.S. During the last 18 months before the current recession took hold, while the country as a whole was still creating jobs, more than half of those jobs were created in a single state: Texas.

Texas has usurped the leadership position that, decades ago, belonged to California. Today California is in decline, likely irreversibly so. William Voegeli draws the sad but instructive comparison in the Los Angeles Times:

09.08.09
Newsweek Declares White Babies to Be Racist

If you're Caucasian, don't think you're ever clean of the moonbat answer to original sin. According to Newsreek, even babies are racist. At the Children's Research Lab at the University of Texas — located in liberal Austin, the Berkeley of...

04.01.09
Nine Deadbeats Run up $3 Million in Emergency Room Bills

The size of ambulance-chaser John Edwards's mansion is one clue as to why healthcare is so expensive. Here's another clue:

03.21.09
Geithner Bank Plan Continues Façade Of Potemkin Banks

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's plan to fix the bank problem is coming into focus this weekend. Based on initial reports it appears the Obama administration is going to attempt a variation of the "bad bank" cum "private investor" approach that was employed during the Texas Savings and Loan meltdown twenty years ago. This is probably why Paul Krugman is so teed off today: