Monday, March 19, 2012

Book review: Up Pohnpei - A quest to reclaim the soul of football by leading the world's ultimate underdogs to glory

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I was minding my own business the other day while driving around in the car. I was listening to a BBC show when they began interviewing Paul...
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Friday, March 16, 2012

Baseball: A reader writes back

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The other day I received an e-mail comment to my post about my lamenting the changes in baseball over the years. The author of the e-mail w...
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Book review: The End of War - how waging peace can save humanity, our planet and our future

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Paul K. Chappell's latest book, The End of War, isn't on the newly released list - but I just found out about it a couple of weeks ...
Thursday, March 15, 2012

GOP math

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On Tuesday Republican voters in Mississippi and Alabama went to the polls for their respective state primaries and dealt another blow to pre...

As the wheels of injustice slowly turn

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Brian's right . It is sheer madness to even contemplate setting every criminal case for trial. But why is that? I can't speak as...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Economic doublespeak

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Newt Gingrich is promising you gas will sell for $2.50 a gallon if you'll just put him in the White House. In the world according to New...

Just another slap on the wrist

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In Brady v. Maryland , 373 US 83, 87 (1963) , the US Supreme Court held that "the suppression by the prosecution of evidence favorable ...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Maryland court finds DRE to be unreliable

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In 1979 two sergeants with the Los Angeles Police Department cooked up the Drug Recognition and Classification Program (DEC). The National H...
Monday, March 12, 2012

No means no, unless it doesn't

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"Texas law is clear that the existence and results of a polygraph examination are inadmissible for all purposes." --  Tennard v. ...

Indiana crime lab miscues cast doubt on convictions

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There's a tempest a-brewing in Indiana following the release of a report by the Indiana Supreme Court stating that the state's crim...
Saturday, March 10, 2012

When the other shoe drops

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It's a photo in need of a story. The other morning I was walking along Congress Avenue alongside the civil courthouse. And there it...
Friday, March 9, 2012

The times they are a-changing

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Oh I know I'm supposed to change with the times. I need to get out of the past and see the future for what it is. Things will evolve and...
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It's still illegal

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Ol' Big Jolly is happy as a clam to report that Pat Lyko's DIVERT program is doing precisely what it set out to do - reducing the n...
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Thursday, March 8, 2012

The high cost of murder

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In 2010 the lethal drug cocktail used by the State of Texas to murder inmates cost all of $86. The cost of the lethal cocktail the state use...

Everyone is presumed innocent, except for...

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If there was ever any doubt that the Attorney General is just the mouthpiece for the President of the United States, those doubts should be ...
Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Bennett for Court of Criminal Appeals

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If there was ever a place that needed a proponent of limited government it is the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. In no other area is the n...
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Who really wants limited government?

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Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and every other wingnut and wanna-be wingnut preach that government is too big. That's it'...
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Execution Watch: 3/7/2012

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And the killing machine just keeps on chugging away... ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT, TEXAS PLANS TO EXECUTE: KEITH STEVEN THURMOND. The former ma...

The mayor's plan to rid downtown of the homeless

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Well, if you can't figure out a way to resolve the homeless issue in Houston, the least you can do, Mayor Parker, is get those folks out...

Does this thing work?

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Well of course the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department needed a drone. Law enforcement agencies are lined up like lemmings outside an...
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Monday, March 5, 2012

Listening in

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While Harris County is looking to install video conferencing in the jail and promising that the integrity of the attorney-client relationshi...

In the spotlight

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"There is no doubt (the email) is racist. It wasn't forwarded for that purpose. If anything,  it was political." -- US Distri...
Sunday, March 4, 2012

What could possibly go wrong?

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With the state's primary finally be set on May 29, I can only wonder what new problems could befall beleaguered Harris County District A...
Saturday, March 3, 2012

RIP Miss Edna

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Edna Milton Chadwell died last week . Who is Miss Edna, you might ask? Down in these parts, Miss Edna was a legend. You see she was the la...
Friday, March 2, 2012

Happy Birthday, Texas!

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