Monday, April 9, 2012

Welcome to the wild west

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Welcome to the wild, wild West. This week the U.S. government offered a $10 million bounty for Hafiz Saeed , the founder of a Pakistani mili...
Sunday, April 8, 2012

Sunday morning roundup

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Life is getting harder for troubled Galveston County District Clerk Jason Murray after his latest arrests for DWI and threatening to kill hi...
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Friday, April 6, 2012

At the ol' ball game

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It's time for the Boys of Summer. I'll be at the yard tonight for Opening Day. Enjoy. Harry singing "Take Me Out to the Bal...

Who needs a sworn report anyway?

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Score one for the Department of Public Safety. Whenever a motorist is arrested for driving while intoxicated in Texas, the arresting offic...
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Thursday, April 5, 2012

Prison officials fight disclosure of drug stockpiles

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Somewhere along the line, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice seems to have forgotten that the government is supposed to serve the peop...

Just another day at the office for Michael Reichert

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I haven't yet decided whether to laugh at this video or to throw sharp objects at my monitor. Radley Balko posted this video on his blog...
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Bend over, please

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On Monday, in a 5-4 decision that was to be expected, the United States Supreme Court announced that it is subservient to jail guards in im...

More limited government, Perry-style

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That champion of limited government, Rick Perry (he of limited intellect), racked up more than $1.7 million in travel expenses related to h...
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

DA drops case against blogger

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Barbara Nichols got her panties in a wad. Ms. Nichols called the local police. The local police chief, Kenneth Cook, called the District Att...
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Book review: Beautiful Souls - Saying no, breaking ranks and heeding the voice of conscience in dark times

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What makes someone stand up and say no when they see something going on that isn't right? What is it that motivates that one person to d...
Monday, April 2, 2012

Searching for a reason (any reason)...

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Of course something had to be done. There was a fight. There were the police. We can't possibly expect the police to climb back in their...

This (not so) old courthouse: Fort Bend County edition

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This is the new Fort Bend County Courthouse. While there's nothing special about the outside appearance of the building (other than t...
Sunday, April 1, 2012

Sunday morning roundup

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Here are a few items from the week to chew over on a Sunday morning... Galveston County District Clerk Jason Murray just flipped himself f...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

The shredder

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There I stood at the counter on the 4th floor of the Montgomery County Courthouse Annex waiting to speak to a probate clerk about some paper...
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Friday, March 30, 2012

Getting carried away by the mob

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I think we can all agree that the death of Trayvon Martin was a tragedy that could have been prevented. We know that George Zimmerman shot a...

Book review: The End of Money

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Well, not necessarily the end of money as a concept. What David Wolman is pushing for is the end of physical money. His new book The End of ...
Thursday, March 29, 2012

Update: Texas kills again (and again and again)

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Rick Perry can put another notch in his belt and his wingnut supporters can whoop even louder the next time he brags about how many people h...

We'd never sacrifice freedom for security, would we?

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Was Mohammed Merah part of a global al-Qaeda conspiracy to subvert the west or was he a nut job with a firearm? Since he was shot dead by Fr...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Farewell to an old friend

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Back in July of 1995 I found a car on a Honda lot in Conroe with only 15 miles on the odometer. I wanted a 5-speed with a good engine and...

Plea = Pressure > Urge to fight

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Yesterday a client of mine got a lesson in how the criminal (in)justice system in Harris County operates. As a condition of his bond, my cli...

Working in a data mine

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So you think there's such a thing as a reasonable expectation of privacy anymore? If you do, James Bamford has some news for you. In t...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Execution Watch 3/28/2012

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The state that carries out more executions than any other state is ready to kill again... ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT, TEXAS PLANS TO EXECUTE: J...

The economics of choice

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Today the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the second day of oral arguments regarding the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision ...
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Monday, March 26, 2012

This is a paid political announcement...

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Murray, Murray, Murray. Sometimes it appears that my colleague, and friend, Murray Newman, still wishes he were at 1201 Franklin Street in...
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Saturday, March 24, 2012

A big deal

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Michael Aigen is a business litigator for Lakey Hershman, LLP up in Dallas. I don't know Mr. Aigen, but based on his profiles on Rising ...
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