For the first time in years, my wife and I managed to vacation without checking our e-mails, Facebook, etc. The only real news we watched during those eight days in tropical paradise -- the Hawaiian island of Maui -- was...
Got an e-mail from a California transplant and former East Dallas resident who obviously is longing for some Texas B-B-Q. "I'm still looking for a good one [barbecue joint] out here," he laments. Here's his inquiry after I posted an...
Reporter and Lone Star State newcomer Jessica Meyers got a quick education in gun control this week: I'm quickly learning that the topic of gun control rips open wounds in Texas like nothing else -- except maybe conversations about abortion...
Overshadowed by the by the triumph of what many view as blue-state progressivim in the presidential race is the approval by California voters of Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage. Calif. may be the biggest of the blue states, but...
Bear with me -- or is that bare? -- while I make one more observation about my trip to San Francisco. And, believe me, it's an observation I wish I hadn't made, but it led me to wonder: Are public-nekkedness...
To Brandy A, transplant formerly of California: Hey, Brandy, can we just go ahead and agree upfront that all Texans are illiterate, crass, backward, inefficient, bad drivers and lousy lovers? It would save a lot of space on your postings....
There's a compelling front-page story in today's Los Angeles Times about a California study commission's findings that the state's administration of its death penalty is "close to collapse." If you assumed Texas had the largest Death Row in the nation,...
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