Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Goodbye, Mack

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I just got back from seeing the sad ending to the Mack Brown era at Texas. I really wanted it to end differently than it did. I can't sa...
Monday, December 30, 2013

Book review - The Crash of 2016

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In The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America and What We Can Do About It , author Thom Hartman lays out his case for why the US economy...
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Merry Christmas

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Turn off your computer and enjoy the day...
Tuesday, December 24, 2013

What's wrong with this picture?

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Dana Brock of Hurst, Texas was sentenced to 70 years in prison last week for stealing a weed whacker and a power washer from a neighbor...
Monday, December 23, 2013

This old courthouse - Lee County edition

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Back in August I took my youngest to her first Longhorn football game in Austin. Since it was a night game we stayed overnight and headed ba...
Friday, December 20, 2013

Making the trains run on time

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I heard from a colleague the other day that after a trial in which his client was acquitted the judge ordered the defendant taken back to ja...
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Thursday, December 19, 2013

A broken record

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On the way to the municipal courthouse during the lunch hour yesterday I happened upon a discussion on the local public affairs show Houston...
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Democracy on hold

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The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government...   -- U.S. Constitution, Art. IV, Sec. I...
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

The name says it all

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The last time I checked my calendar we were running up on the final days of 2013. Yet there is a debate going on in Houston about whether La...
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Monday, December 16, 2013

Staying classy

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The Mack Brown era at Texas is officially over. Regardless of the fact I think Mack should still be the coach of the Longhorns - after the B...
Friday, December 13, 2013

Free parking (no more)

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Earlier this week I had to bid goodbye to a good friend. You see, for the past couple of months there was a parking meter - not too far from...
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Thursday, December 12, 2013

Has she no shame?

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It takes a certain kind of person to want to be an elected official. It's not everyone who can beg and grovel for money and signatures o...
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

New toy for Wyoming police

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Wyoming has a very low crime rate. It has one of the lowest murder rates in the country at 2.4 per 100,000 people. For comparison, the rate...
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Class dismissed

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Talk about your sophisticated ways of poisoning jury pools and public opinion. The Harris County District Attorney's Office found the pe...
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Monday, December 9, 2013

Robbing the poor and giving to the rich

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The other day I wrote about Black Friday protests at Wal-Mart and the ways in which large corporations shift the burden of paying employees...
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Friday, December 6, 2013

The quest for truth

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Nelson Mandela died yesterday at the age of 95. Mr. Mandela was the leader of the African National Congress and the first truly democratic...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

Is it time to bail on the bond system?

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In Maryland whenever someone was arrested they would be brought before a judge who would determine if the defendant should be granted bail, ...
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Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Update: One last murder for 2013

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Yes, it probably sounds like a broken record by now, but the murder of Jerry Martin by the State of Texas accomplished nothing last night . ...
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Scientific fraud in Massachusetts affects over 40,000 defendants

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If ever more evidence was needed that scientific evidence in criminal cases needs to be scrutinized more than it is, we have the story of An...
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Monday, December 2, 2013

Execution Watch: 12/3/2013

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The State of Texas is preparing to murder for the last time in 2013... JERRY MARTIN, while serving a 50-year term for attempted capital m...
Friday, November 29, 2013

Black day for Wal-Mart

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It was bad enough when it was just Black Friday. Then the stores started racing each other to see who could open earliest. One year when I t...
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Thursday, November 28, 2013

Standing up to coercive bonding guidelines

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The first post I wrote for this blog - way back in August 2008 - was a short piece on the need for PR (personal recognizance) bonds in Harr...
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Book review: League of Denial

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As we prepare to sit down for a day of food and football (I will be in Austin tonight for the Longhorns' tilt against Texas Tech), it fe...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Another useless conference

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Last week marked the end of the 19th annual UN conference on climate change (referred to in bureaucratic UN-speak as the Congress of Parties...
Monday, November 25, 2013

288 and counting...

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The Houston Police Department is on a 288-0 win streak . There have been 288 officer shootings without a single indictment since Arthur Char...
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