Barack Obama

Obama, Bloomberg Groups Are Teaming Up for Dallas Gun Control Rally This Weekend

Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the advocacy group funded and founded by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is struggling to stoke the kind of grass-roots passion for gun regulation that has made its arch-nemesis, the NRA, such a political force. Organizing For America, the post-electoral version o ... More >>

Obama II: It's the End of the White People's World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

Tons of talk on the interwebs yesterday about the inauguration and what it all meant (racism is undead, Obama won't have a waltz, presidents can't change the weather, other unexciting true facts). But, look. It did mean something. This is not 2008. We can debate what road we're down, but we're four ... More >>

Blah, Blah, Blah -- Some Slippery Slope Blather About Marijuana Legalization

This is just between us libtards, OK? The rest of you, if you don't mind, could we have the room for a minute? You might want to step outside, check on your Tea Party stuff, see if any immigrant babies are making dirty bombs in your vicinity, something like that. We'll be just be a minute. Great. Se ... More >>

Glenn Beck is Outraged that eBay Pulled His Masterwork, "Obama in Pee Pee" [Updated]

We generally don't actively want to write about Glenn Beck, for more or less the same reasons we don't go around touching other people's cold sores. But sometimes, up there in his Southlake media fortress, the man does things that put us in the sad position of feeling obliged to listen to and occas ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: Discrimination, Lard and Beans, Straight From the Heart of Texas

Rick Perry Blames Ambassador's Death on Obama, Uses it to Shill for Romney

It's been all of 24 hours since Christopher Stephens, the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, was killed along with three others in an attack by an mob angered by a film ridiculing the prophet Mohammed. Stephens was, by all accounts, a dedicated public servant, and he had borne witness to the fall of Muammar ... More >>

So, What's On Mitt Romney's iPod?

Over the last two nights of the Republican National Convention, both Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan and Presidential candidate Mitt Romney have taken the time to mention the music on Romney's iPod, with Ryan, a noted Rage Against the Machine fan, saying, "There are the songs on his iPod whic ... More >>

TransCanada Can Move Ahead With Texas Portion of Pipeline, But the Fight Isn't Over

Earlier this month, three East Texas hamlets with a collective population of fewer than 2,000 souls filed suit in a federal court in Oklahoma City to halt construction of the southern half of The International Pipeline Formerly Known as Keystone XL. The Keystone was to be a massive piece of infrastr ... More >>

FreedomWorks Will Bring Thousands of Tea Partyers to Dallas Next Week

You might remember FreedomWorks. In 2010, the nonprofit, established and funded by billionaire David Koch, helped shape a sprawling Tea Party movement into the force that swept a large number of very conservative Republicans into Congress. Call it grass roots, call it astro turf. For a hint, if on ... More >>

America's Petro-Terrorists

How greedy speculators bought politicians and drove up the price of oil.

Medicaid Women's Health Program Is One Step Closer To Death

The Medicaid Women's Health Program provides some 130,000 Texas women with vital medical care: family planning, birth control, cancer screenings and annual exams. And for that, of course, it must die. That, at least, has long been the case as far as Republican lawmakers are concerned. And after last ... More >>

From Dallas ISD Teacher to Don Hill Prosecutor to North Texas's New U.S. Attorney

​Friends of Unfair Park who followed the federal City Hall corruption trial in 2009 may recall the name Sarah Saldaña; she was among the more prominent prosecutors on that team. But till I glanced at her U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary questionnaire, I had no idea, for instance, that from ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden's Death: My Top 10 Observer-ations

​10. When I first heard President Obama was making an emergency announcement at 9:30 on a Sunday night, my first thought was ... asteroid. Then aliens. Then NFL lockout. Then Osama Bin Laden. And somewhere along the process I figured it was just a ploy to interrupt Donald Trump's Celebri ... More >>

First Baptist's Jeffress Goes on FOX to Present Theories Why Obama Didn't Send Easter Card

Perhaps you've heard: President Obama didn't issue an Easter proclamation, and that has some folks in a tizzy (which I believe is some kind of religious headgear?). Anyway. First Baptist Church of Dallas's Robert Jeffress, who is now a FOX News regular, went on FOX & Friends this morning to offe ... More >>

Watch: Westlake's Own Nick Jonas Performs At White House As Part of Motown Tribute. Huh?

Disney Channel swag.​Last night, to celebrate Black History Month, President Barack Obama invited a whole cast of big name musical performers to the White House to participate in a tribute to Motown. Among those invited to perform? Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, T ... More >>

In Search of America's Next "Sputnik Moment," Obama Points to Local Teen as Country's Future

Amy Chyao and President Obama at the White House in October​Before the first bell rings this morning, this inspirational moment ... Perhaps you recall: Back in October, 16-year-old Amy Chyao, a junior at Plano's Williams High School, was among the whiz kids invited to the White House to show-and-t ... More >>

Threaten the President's Life on Craigslist, And You're Going to Federal Prison for Two Years

​You remember Brian Dean Miller, right? Sure you do. He's the 43-year-old Northeast Dallas man who, back in March, posted to Craigslist's "Rants & Raves" section an item titled "Obama must die." Among its highlights, reminds the U.S. Attorney's Office today, he wrote: "People the time has come ... More >>

Tea Partiers and Dallas County GOP Unite Around President Obama's Visit

Photos by Patrick MichelsThere wasn't much silence at all from the crowd at Franklin Stadium last night. Check out more photos here in our slide show.​As Sam noted yesterday, the local Republican party shelled out three grand for a proper venue to accommodate the mammoth crowd they expected at the ... More >>

Do Hot-Blooded Mexicans Not Need Winter Coats?

My City Of Ruins

With Shifting Attitudes and a Burgeoning Medical Marijuana Movement, the Future Looks Rosy for Legalized Weed

Today In Music News: The Nuge Hates Obama, Jimmy Sullivan Dies And Metric Triumphs In '09

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, December 30, 2009...Hey, guess what?! Uncle Ted Nugent hates Obama! Didn't see that one comin'...Avenged Sevenfold's drummer, Jimmy Sullivan is dead at 28.Metric earned Myspace's "Triumph of The Year" for its self-released (and awesome) album F ... More >>

After President Obama's Speech, Ron Kirk Begs Students To Be Cool and Stay in School

Photos by Patrick MichelsRon Kirk answers students' questions at Booker T. Washington High School after President Obama's speech this morning.​While President Obama's speech to students met a lukewarm reception at some schools around Dallas-Fort Worth, former Dallas mayor and current U.S. Trade Re ... More >>

Happy Birthday ... To Us!

You had your doubts, din't ya?Seems like just yesterday we hatched this lil' corner of the blogosphere as a Dallasy, sporty catch-all spiced with news, opinions and snarky assholeism. After 365 days, 755 items and 7,735 comments, how we doin'? President Obama just got graded on ... More >>

Ron Kirk Still Mum on Possible Place in Barack Obama's White House

This morning, a Friend of Unfair Park directed our attention to The New York Times' page featuring Barack Obama's "New Team" -- those folks who've either been appointed to the new administration or who're being rumored for the short list of maybe-so's. And nowhere on the page does former Dallas Mayo ... More >>

At Some Point, John McCain Will Also Want You Off His Lawn

Facts Are Slippery

Trolling Right-Wing Political Blogs Proves That November Can't Come Too Soon

The Big Caucus, Or: The Smell of Nachos and a Daytime Emmy-Winner

Just Which Candidate Captured "The Zeitgeist of the Moment"?

Back to the Future With Bill Clinton

Hillary at Herrera's, Kind of Like An SNL Sketch (Also: ABC Anchor Talks Mavs!)

Bush for Obama! Bush for Obama!

The Dark Horse?

Mexican attitudes on black and white is a gray issue

We Had Some Diamonds

Why is Hillary Neglecting Delegate-Rich Dallas County?

While Obama has events going on throughout the city, Clinton is nowhere to be found

An Unfair Park Programming Note

Latino Vote Is No Slam Dunk for Hillary Clinton, Not in Texas

Crushing on Chelsea

The First of Several Barack Obama Items: The Outsiders' Perspective

More From the Obama Rally: The Waiting is the Hardest Part

Service Employees Union Backs Obama, Hoping to Help in Texas

Obama's Dallas Beachhead -- And the Food Ain't Bad, Either

Clinton's Coming to Texas, While Obama Takes His Campaign to Spanish-Language Radio

Clinton and Obama to Meet in Austin Next Week -- Though, Likely Not at Scholz Garten, Shame

Dallas County Trio Goes Obama

Hillary Clinton's Camp Sends Garry Mauro After Barack Obama

Rod Dreher's "Really Excited" by Obama. Still Won't Vote For Him Though.

Ackermans to Light Up Dallas Obama Fundraiser

Kenya Believe This