Monday, November 18, 2013

Feeding at the trough

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Boeing is a hugely profitable company. Between them and the European consortium, Airbus, they control most of the market for commercial airp...
Friday, November 15, 2013

A false debate

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Janet Yellen, President Obama's choice to lead the Federal Reserve, went up to Capitol Hill yesterday to face the Senate Banking Committ...
Thursday, November 14, 2013

A few more burnt ends

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Yesterday former NFL wide receiver Sam Hurd was sentenced to 15 years in prison for conspiring to distribute marijuana and cocaine. He pled...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Update: Execution fails to bring back killer's victim

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Jamie McCoskey is dead. The State of Texas murdered him last night. The Houston Chronicle carried out its duty to distract the public f...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

A (tiny) step in the right direction

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Former state district judge Ken Anderson, the man who prosecuted Michael Morton for a murder he didn't commit, entered into a plea barga...
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Monday, November 11, 2013

Execution Watch: 11/12/2013

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On Tuesday night the State of Texas will kill again... JAMIE MCCOSKEY, a Houston bartender convicted in the 1991 kidnapping and stabbing ...
Friday, November 8, 2013

Love and chemicals and hate and unnecessary federal prosecutions

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A suburban couple. An affair. A love child. An angry wife. Poison. Poison. Poison. Soap opera? Lifetime movie? Nope - fact pattern...
Thursday, November 7, 2013

Book review: The Kings of Sports - Football's impact on America

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Gregg Easterbrook is the man behind the weekly Tuesday Morning Quarterback  column on ESPN.com. He is an accomplished author. His brother, F...
Wednesday, November 6, 2013

When driving the speed limit is breaking the law

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If, on a highway having more than one lane with vehicles traveling in the same direction, the Texas Department of Transportation or a loca...
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Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Serving two masters

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I will  prescribe  regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and  never do harm  to anyone. -- Hippocra...
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Monday, November 4, 2013

Cutting the cord

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On Saturday I spent a glorious day running the trails in Huntsville State Park with my colleague Rand Mintzer in the Rocky Raccoon 50K. Just...
Friday, November 1, 2013

Lurching from crisis to crisis

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Yesterday on my home from the office I was listening to All Things Considered  on NPR. The subject was an interview with Richard Anderson, t...
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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Judge strikes portions of Texas anti-abortion law

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On Monday a federal judge sitting in Austin declared parts of Texas' new stringent anti-abortion law to be unconstitutional . In particu...
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Do not go quietly into that good night

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Just when you thought it was safe to wander around Galveston comes news that disgraced former judge Christopher Dupuy is the subject of anot...

Missing the point entirely

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A little bit over a week ago Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch released reports that humanized the victims of US drone attacks ...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013

But the cupboard was bare

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Just what is a state to do when it is so desperate to kill an inmate and it can't get its hands on the key drug in the lethal cocktail?...
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Monday, October 28, 2013

Execution Watch: 10/29/2013

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On Tuesday night the State of Texas will kill again... ARTHUR BROWN, JR. , The Los Angeles native was convicted in the 1992 drug-related ...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

For your viewing pleasure

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The Houston Chronicle's science and weather blogger, Eric Berger , found this incredible animation that shows just how the moon would a...
Friday, October 25, 2013

If at first you don't succeed...

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Last week, in Iran, a convicted drug smuggler named Alireza was executed . At least that's what everyone thought. He was left dangling f...
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Thursday, October 24, 2013

Voting, education and guns

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It's election time here in Houston and, with the Republicans in power, we've got to deal with voter restriction measures such as the...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

No more room at the inn

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Anyone who practices criminal law in Harris County knows that the Harris County Jail is packed to the gills. The two main causes that people...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Judge resigns after texting controversy

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Back in March I wrote about a disturbing incident involving State District Judge Elizabeth Coker in Polk County (see " Text parte commu...
Monday, October 21, 2013

Book review - The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football

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College football is one of this country's favorite activities. Every Saturday thousands of students, alumni and ordinary fans pack stadi...
Friday, October 18, 2013

Medical experiments and murder

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The Sunshine State was so desperate to kill William Happ this week that they used an untested drug as the sedative in their lethal cocktail...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

The new welfare

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The other day, while perusing Gregg Easterbrook's Tuesday Morning Quarterback  site, I came across a link to an article he penned for Th...