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Texas heads for another squabble over evolution
It was 20 years ago when the Texas Board of Education voted not to require the state's biology textbooks to include the theory of evolution. The decision was widely considered an embarrassment for Texas. Before that, the board required that ...
The security cocoon tightens around the president-elect
Inexorably, the cocoon that Barack Obama will live in for the next four or eight years is tightening around him. Already in Chicago there are concrete barriers around his house. The streets in the immediate neighborhood are closed to outside ...
Detailed investigation closes the Bañales case
It was evident that when 105th District Judge J. Manuel Bañales lost control of his vehicle and hit a highway department worker in June, it was no ordinary accident. For one, worker Martin Garcia, 34, suffered serious injuries. He is ...
The economic summit saved the heavy lifting for later
The great success of the global-meltdown summit might have been simply getting 21 world leaders together in Washington on only three weeks' notice. The summit's concluding statement, strong on generalities, light on specifics, apparently failed to impress world financial markets. ...
Is Obama following the Abraham Lincoln model?
More books have been written about Abraham Lincoln than any other president. And more will be published as the nation approaches the bicentennial of the Great Emancipator next year. One book out of so many Lincoln books, however, has become ...
There's more red ink in one month than in most years
The federal budget deficit has taken an alarming turn for the worse. In October, the first month of the federal fiscal year, the government ran a record deficit of $237.2 billion, close to the deficit the government ran for the ...
Someone has to watch that bailout cash register
When Congress established the $700 billion bailout fund, it promised strict and thorough oversight. Over a month later, with $290 billion already committed, we have our answer: There isn't any. The legislation called for a special inspector general within the ...
A big increase in early voting in Texas is good for democracy
In the last election, more Texans voted early than ever before and that's good for democracy. Locking up so many votes before Election Day is a positive development for the plain good order of politics, too. Of the more than ...
Fake expert, phony think tank pull a fast one on the media
Michael Eisenstadt is a nonexistent senior fellow at the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy, a nonexistent think tank, but he has a blog and the "Institute" has a Web site and for parts of the blogosphere that's credibility enough. ...
Republicans hold a slim majority in Texas House
Republicans have managed to hold onto the majority of seats in the Texas House by a slim two-seat margin. That would seem to make House Speaker Tom Craddick, Republican from Midland, ripe to be replaced. But despite the unhappiness with ...
What's best for Obama's girls
The Obamas can be grateful that it looks like they'll be spared the debate that dogged the Clintons during their transition to Washington -- public vs. private school for their children. Chelsea Clinton had attended public school in Little Rock, ...
Making it up as we go along on the $700 billion bailout
Congress rushed to enact the $700 billion bailout legislation as a way of pumping liquidity into the financial system by letting the Treasury buy up so-called toxic assets, the most troubled loans on lenders' books. Well, that's not what the ...
Escobar begins tenure on an uncertain note
The launch of new city manager Angel Escobar's tenure wasn't ideal by a long shot. The City Council's job offer to Escobar by a 5-4 vote was less than a resounding vote of confidence. Escobar's first response, that he had ...
Setting a new course in the nation's politics
It may be pointing out the obvious, but sometimes the obvious needs to be pointed out. President-elect Barack Obama will soon be making Cabinet-level and White House staff appointments and the choices he will make give him an extraordinary opportunity ...
Thorns and Roses: 11.14.08
University needs to 'stand down' On Monday, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi officials discovered that a breach of information security had been committed yet again. A student notified officials that his name and Social Security number were available on the site ...
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