Monday, September 30, 2013

The double standard of international law

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Charles Taylor will spend the next 50 years (should he live that long) cooling his heels in a prison in England , not because he committed w...
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Friday, September 27, 2013

Update: A killer covers up his crime

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What is an executioner to do when he runs out of his drug supply? Arturo Diaz became the 13th victim of the Texas killing machine last night...
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Thursday, September 26, 2013

What goes around sometimes comes around

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"On behalf of the citizens of Texas, I extend my appreciation and gratitude for your service to the State of Texas and wish you all th...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Execution Watch: 09/26/2013

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On Thursday night the State of Texas will kill again... ARTURO DIAZ , convicted in the stabbing death of a McAllen man during a 1999 robb...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Last one in gets the job

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And the game of trying to find someone who wants to be DA continues... For those of y'all not up to speed. Mike Anderson, a former pro...
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Monday, September 23, 2013

This old courthouse - Caldwell County edition

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On our drive up to Austin a couple of weeks ago for the UT season opener (which is looking increasingly like the only game worth going to th...
Saturday, September 21, 2013

Is this the end of the Mack Brown era?

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Ah, yes, the 2013 Longhorn football season is going up in flames. After the blow-out loss to BYU, Mack Brown sacrificed Manny Diaz to t...
Friday, September 20, 2013

And so it ends

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After two-and-a-half acrimonious years on the second floor of the Galveston County Courthouse, the tenure of Christopher Dupuy on the bench ...
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Update: The killing machine is running out of fuel

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Robert Garza is dead. He was murdered by the State of Texas, not because he killed anyone, but because he was there. The law of parties may ...
Thursday, September 19, 2013

So much window dressing

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“In many areas, Texas appears out of step with better practices implemented in other capital jurisdictions, fails to rely upon scientifical...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Execution Watch: 9/19/2013

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On Thursday night the State of Texas will kill again... ROBERT GARZA , condemned following his conviction on a pair of murder charges in ...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

A trip down south

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Yesterday I made the long drive down to Jackson County. I left the house at 6:30 a.m. for the 100-mile drive so I could get my name near the...
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Monday, September 16, 2013

Making it up as we go along, NASCAR-style

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NASCAR has long fought the impression that stock car racing is the equivalent of professional wrestling on wheels. Rules have had a funny wa...
Friday, September 13, 2013

Vacuum at the top

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Earlier this month, after less than a year in office, Harris County District Attorney Mike Anderson died from cancer. He had been out of the...
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Mucking it up down in Richmond

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I finally reached a point last Saturday night where I couldn't sit and watch the BYU offense run at will against the Longhorn defense I ...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Two wrongs don't make a right

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The Congress shall have the power ... [t]o declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal,  and make rules concerning captures on land a...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Taking away the voice of the people

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Last week Wallace Jefferson, the first black Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, announced that he was stepping down from the Court o...
Monday, September 9, 2013

Why would he lie?

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We've all heard it at trial whenever there is a question about the veracity of a police officer's testimony. The prosecutor will ask...
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Friday, September 6, 2013

Trying to revive the spirit of George Wallace

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The states of Texas and Mississippi have decided that the 14th Amendment just doesn't apply to them when it comes to recognizing same-se...
Thursday, September 5, 2013

Barbecue and Longhorn football - it doesn't get any better

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This past Saturday I took my youngest on a field trip out to Austin to watch the Longhorns open their 2013 campaign. This season marks the 5...
Wednesday, September 4, 2013

The militarization of elementary school

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Every Wednesday Military shirts Spring Branch T-2-4 Plan   By 2017, SBISD will double the number of students completing a technica...
Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Our missiles are bigger than your missiles

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Barack Obama is now swimming in a stew of his own making. He drew the red line and now he's having to figure out what to do now that it...
Monday, September 2, 2013

Going to the bank

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As you might expect, once word went out that the Houston Astros were on track to bag $99 million this year, someone with the ball club had t...
Saturday, August 31, 2013

Are y'all ready for some football?

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Well it's that time of the year again. Fall is approaching. Temperatures are falling (to the lower 90's). And the natives are back...
Friday, August 30, 2013

Everything you need to know about DWI

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I'm waiting for the special "No Refusal" edition that includes a rubber hose, needle and syringe for conducting forcible bl...