Saturday, June 29, 2013

Pale blue dot

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This photograph from the Cassini space probe kind of puts everything into perspective. That blue dot found in the shadows the outer ring of ...
Friday, June 28, 2013

Building walls

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Just the other day the U.S. Senate passed a historic immigration reform bill by a two-to-one margin. The bill would offer a pathway to citiz...
Thursday, June 27, 2013

Update: 500 murders and counting

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On December 7, 1982, the State of Texas strapped Charles Brooks, Jr. down to a gurney and pumped poison into his veins. It was the first exe...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Restricting the vote

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With the Supreme Court cutting off the Voting Rights Act of 1965 at its knees by declaring that the formula used to determine which jurisdic...
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Execution Watch: 6/26/2013

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On Wednesday night the State of Texas is planning on murdering its 500th inmate since the death penalty was reinstated. KIMBERLY MCCARTHY...
Monday, June 24, 2013

You have the right to have your silence used against you

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It's not an unusual occurrence for a potential client charged with driving while intoxicated to tell me during the initial interview to ...
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Friday, June 21, 2013

The ink wasn't even dry yet...

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Oh, it didn't take long now, did it? Not even two weeks after the US Supreme Court said it was okay for Maryland to take DNA samples f...
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Thursday, June 20, 2013

Whose life is it, anyway?

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As a society we proclaim our respect for human life. In practice we show little such respect. Exhibit A is our societal love of long prison ...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Taxing the poor to provide for the wealthy

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Next year Brazil hosts the World Cup. In 2016 the Summer Olympics head to the land of Carnaval. In order to impress the wealthy folks who ...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Summer forecast - rolling blackouts?

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And once again it's time for our annual look at why our reverence with the concepts of free markets is misguided. Back when Texas dere...
Monday, June 17, 2013

Couldn't you just see it coming?

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Law enforcement officers are highly trained professionals who routinely undergo continuing training and education in new areas in order to d...
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Friday, June 14, 2013

Yet another indictment for disgraced jurist

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Disgraced Galveston County Judge Christopher Dupuy is back in the news once again as he was indicted and arrested  (again) for violating th...
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Thursday, June 13, 2013

Update: Texas kills again

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Elroy Chester is dead . Willie Ryman III is still dead. So are John Henry Sepeda, Etta Mae Stallings, Cheryl DeLeon and Albert Bolden, Jr....
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Execution Watch: June 12, 2013

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Tonight the State of Texas seeks to murder: ELROY CHESTER III , who pleaded guilty to shooting to death an off-duty firefighter in Port A...
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Another whisteblower to be persecuted

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Edward Snowden told the truth . For that he will have hell to pay. I think it's quite telling that the first reaction of the gove...
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Monday, June 10, 2013

Another drug scandal in baseball? Wake me when it's over

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Another day, another steroid (or whatever the performance enhancing drug of the day is) scandal . Stars such as Ryan Braun and Alex Rodrigue...
Friday, June 7, 2013

Hanging on the telephone (metadata records)

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It all started out innocently enough. A woman was robbed. She remembered the car the robber was driving. She started receiving threatening a...
Thursday, June 6, 2013

This isn't being recorded, is it?

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Edith Jones is a judge on the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. She's a Texan and she practiced law in Houston before being appointed t...
Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Constructing our reality

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I was on my way to the office last night to meet with a client. I flipped on the radio in the car and the only thing worth listening to was ...
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

At least it's not a needle

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Police arrest suspect. Police take suspect to jail. Police take suspect's fingerprints when he is booked in for identification purposes....
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Monday, June 3, 2013

Book review - Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield

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Once upon a time the power to declare war belonged to the legislative branch. That began to change when Harry Truman felt the need to send t...
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Saturday, June 1, 2013

Using Jesus to deny healthcare benefits

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Last week Hobby Lobby pointed out the most basic flaw in the overhaul of our health care regime . For those of y'all who don't know,...
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Friday, May 31, 2013

Ob-la-di, ob-la-da

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The morning began with me getting to the office early so I could move a client's truck from a parking spot in the back to a spot along t...
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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Roger and me

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Whenever a jury is picked for a case the judge will admonish the panelists that their decision is to be made based solely on the evidence pr...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Outside the box and over the line

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Chapter 45 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure lays out the procedural rules for the handling of Class C misdemeanors in municipal and ...