Thursday, May 12, 2011

Training the vampire's apprentice

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"...the importance of informed, detached and deliberate determinations of the issue whether or not to invade another's body in sear...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Accident rates decrease after red light cameras taken down

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You'd never know it if you relied on the Houston Chronicle's website, but splashed on the front page of yesterday's paper was an...

Hanging on the telephone

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It is far from unusual in these days of  Gestapo -like tactics by the police against motorists accused of driving while intoxicated for an o...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Driving while black remains a reality in Houston

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New data released by the Houston Police Department shows that black motorists are more likely to be stopped by police than any other ethnic...

Continuing down that slippery slope

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On the morning of September 11, 2001, a total of 2,977 folks lost their lives in the terrorist attacks that felled the World Trade Center an...
Monday, May 9, 2011

Limited government, Perry-style

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I guess this is why I'm not a legislator in Austin. I just don't see the connections that these geniuses do. With school districts b...

It's all relative

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It's the middle of the night. Police surround a house. At the designated signal the front door is kicked in and officers storm the dwell...
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Friday, May 6, 2011

A wandering mind

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A few random thoughts after a 4-hour drive to Dallas this evening... If you're going to open a business by the freeway and paint a big...
Thursday, May 5, 2011

To fight or plea

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While I was at the Harris County Criminal (In)justice Center this morning I ran into a colleague who used to have an office in the same buil...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011

To the victor go the spoils

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Brian Tannebaum writes today about the shifting sands of truth regarding the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Was the intent of the mission to c...
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Buck Files to head the State Bar

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Congratulations are in order for the new President-Elect of the State Bar of Texas Buck Files of Tyler. Mr. Files will be the first criminal...

Yes, Virginia, a bolo is a tie

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I ran into a colleague of mine on the 7th floor of the Harris County Criminal (In)justice Center yesterday while I was voting for the attorn...

Bowling for beer

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Hmmm. Silly me, I always thought pints just came in one size on this side of the pond.
Monday, May 2, 2011

One lump or two?

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Oh, the hypocrisy of those limited government folks never ceases to amaze. As Grits for Breakfast  reports, Teabaggers in Smith County (that...

Looking for the next bogeyman

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Yesterday's bogeyman is dead. Today Scott Greenfield asks whether the death of Osama Bin Laden will change anything . Now that the mas...
Friday, April 29, 2011

Feel free to ignore the alarms

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If you're putting up a notice telling everyone it's a fire drill -- just how effective do you think it's going to be? No word...
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On measuring cups, crack and jail overcrowding

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The boys over at Freakonomics have posited an interesting question -- did the sale of Pyrex hurt the crack cocaine industry ? It sounds qu...
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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Burn those draft cards!

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Prior to the decertification of the National Football League Players' Association, the players and owners bargained collectively on the ...

Protecting their own

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As I was looking through my Google Reader on Wednesday, I happened upon a post on Grits for Breakfast  in which Scott Henson questioned why ...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Seeking link exchanges

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I recently received the following e-mail (no link love, though)... Paul, I recently emailed you about exchanging links on your blogroll. I...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

A tale of two sermons

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On Friday night the church my wife and girls attend put on a play about the crucifixion. My oldest daughter was in the play and she recruite...
Monday, April 25, 2011

Little black boxes

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Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice  wrote recently of a gentleman who proved that the cameras used to catch speeders in Prince Georges Count...
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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Death of a revolutionary

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The other day Norm Pattis wrote a blawg post asking who Jesus and Socrates were . I would answer that Jesus was a revolutionary who was kill...
Friday, April 22, 2011

Earth Day 2011

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Today is Earth Day. This past Wednesday, on the other hand, marked the one year anniversary of BP/Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Did the Chicago Cubs throw the 1918 World Series?

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The feud in the Windy City between Cubs and White Sox fans may be heating up once again as a 1920 deposition given by "Black Sox" ...