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The GOP wants you! 25 Jul 2013 | 06:23 am
In your place, of course When the August recess arrives, members of congress will (in most cases) return to their districts to ingratiate themselves with the constituents who will be deciding their f...
Cheerfully innumerate 17 Jul 2013 | 10:42 pm
Happily ignorant I'm sure we all remember in Season 17 when Marge Simpson expressed to Lisa her regrets about blowing off the calculus final in order to party with her boyfriend Homer: “Since then, I...
Pavlov's button 14 Jul 2013 | 09:11 pm
Try pressing harder! There is a big intersection near the post office in my town. It has multiple lanes, including turn lanes, and stop lights and crosswalks and buttons for pedestrian to press when ...
Familiarity breed contempt 6 Jul 2013 | 03:25 am
No love for Sister Sarah Townhall.com has sponsored one of those irritating pop-up polls that haunt the Internet. I normally ignore such things. My pop-up blocker catches most of them, but this one s...
Restoring the Voting Rights Act 30 Jun 2013 | 01:31 am
What happens next (or should) The Supreme Court wobbles from side to side in its rulings, notoriously gutting the Voting Rights Act the day before it similarly eviscerated the Defense of Marriage Act...
Love and marriage 26 Jun 2013 | 09:59 pm
What happens next Today's rulings from the Supreme Court were surprisingly good, although the decision on Proposition 8 was a cowardly punt rather than a straightforward striking down. Coupled, howev...
It ain't necessarily so 22 Jun 2013 | 09:55 am
Miraculous logic Everyone keeps waiting for the Supreme Court to unburden itself of its ruling on California's Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in 2008. Trembling with trepidation that t...
Scott Adams changes his tune? 16 Jun 2013 | 05:46 am
Another victim of the matriarchy It was clever of Scott Adams to include his e-mail address in his Dilbert comic strip. The readers are a constant source of grist for the cartoonist's mill, enabling ...
Bill Priest revisited 12 Jun 2013 | 10:53 pm
The other side of the coin In my recent post on Bill J. Priest and the creation of the Dallas County Community College District, I commented that the biography by Kathleen Krebbs Whitson is a “hagiog...
One thing Texas does right 10 Jun 2013 | 07:56 pm
Although Perry can't count to three The seven-college Dallas County Community College District is one of the biggest post-secondary education institutions in the world. The legendary Bill J. Priest w...
