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Texas Republicans: "Sequester Shmequester!"

The $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts set to go into effect on Friday -- assuming Congress doesn't reach an alternative deficit reduction deal -- was designed to be so stupid and indiscriminately painful that any rational human being would do whatever possible to avoid it. But rationality is ... More >>

European Election Monitors Find U.S. Elections Are Expensive, "Unduly Politicized," Other Shockingly Obvious Conclusions

At the end of October, highly watchable Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott threatened to press charges against any "U.N. poll watchers" who might "interfere with Texas elections." Not to be outdone, state officials in Pennsylvania and Iowa also started threatening to arrest people. Those "poll wa ... More >>

Mark Davis Says "Today is the First Day of Talk Radio." Ain't That the Truth.

Not long after the networks started calling Ohio for Obama last night, but before Karl Rove tried to convince himself that Cleveland and Cincinnati were going to miraculously turn the state red, Mark Davis, the local conservative talk-radio host and Morning News contributor, dispatched the Tweet you ... More >>

Texas Nationalist Movement Would Like to Secede Now, Please

Everyone has their own way of coping with or celebrating the results of last night's election. For his part, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott doesn't appear to have made good on his threat to arrest any European election monitors (who are, by the way, due to give a news conference in Washington t ... More >>

Anonymous' Barrett Brown Writes Letter from Prison, Claims the FBI Broke His Ribs

It's been almost two weeks since law enforcement swept into a Dallas apartment and arrested Barrett Brown, frontman for that merry band of hackers at Anonymous, for threatening an FBI agent on YouTube. Brown was taken briefly to Dallas County Jail before being released to the FBI and reportedly sent ... More >>

Why Do Mexicans Boycott Columbus Day?

And why do white people like to brag about where they travel?

Shape-Shifting Mitt: From Blue Blood to Blue Collar. That's a Laugh.

I had a private little laugh and moment of startled disbelief while my wife and I were watching Mitt Romney's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention last night. Romney described his father as having started out in life as an apprentice "lath and plaster carpenter," a term so arcane ... More >>

Glenn Beck Makes $80 Million, Forbes' List of Highest-Paid Celebrities

Glenn Beck when he parted ways with Fox News last year and moved the seat of his forum for rational political discourse from New York to Irving. According to Forbes, Beck managed to pull in $80 million without the imprimatur of cable's oh-so-fair-and-balanced news network. That puts him at No. 11 on ... More >>

Politics and Pop Culture Take a Whoopin' in Shows Inspired by Green Day and Molly Ivins

Steve Doocy Doesn't Think We're Funny: Emailing with Fox & Friends

Yesterday I wrote up sort of a half-assed blog post. It was mostly just a short clip of Rick Perry chatting with Steve Doocy from Fox & Friends about the evil feds, the nobility of the 10th Amendment and his overall job satisfaction. At the end of the clip in question, Perry suddenly said to Doocy, ... More >>

City Hall Says It's Really Cleaning Up With That $15 Garage Sale Permit Fee

​Back in the fall of 2010, the city's garage-sale permit fee, then just a proposal, raised quite the ruckus -- so much so, you may recall, Neil Cavuto told Dwaine Caraway during a FOX News appearance that, well, "it just looks desperate" during a segment titled "Garage Sale Gouge." At the time it ... More >>

Dallas PD: Still No Racial Profiling Here

​It's that time of the year -- time for the Dallas Police Department to release its annual by-the-numbers breakdown of traffic stops officers made in 2011. Chief  David Brown himself will go to City Hall today to present the council's Public Safety Committee with the 2011 Dallas Police Depart ... More >>

You Don't Have to Climb a Mountain to Dream

The Ad Man Cometh: One Mayor's "Great Value" Is Another Council Member's Waste of $30,000

Photos by Anna MerlanFrank Lutz addressing the council yesterday​The Degolyer Estate at the Dallas Arboretum is a beautiful spot, a big house set back from a broad lawn, edged this time of the year with pumpkins and purple flowers. In the library, retreating Dallas City Council members and various ... More >>

Activists Call Texas's Voter ID Law Discriminatory, Plead For Feds' Help

"I knew I should have signed that bill with my red-white-and-blue Sharpie."​Hey, maybe this will help Rick Perry shore up support with the Tea Party's Ship-Em-Out Division and his new Arizona boyfriend: Those kooky activists at the ACLU and some of their libtard friends are pleading with the D ... More >>

Kids, Trust No One. My Work Is Done Here.

​Oh, wouldn't you know I'd wind up agreeing with my opponent? You know what's wrong with me? I am just too damn much of a sweetheart, that's my problem. Too nice, too smart, too good-lookin'. I've got to drop at least one just to make things fair. So this morning I met on the field of battle ... More >>

Don't Forget the Suffragettes

Ex-Channel 5 Reporter Stinchfield Now Out to Expose the "Idiocracy" in D.C. ... As a Politician

This morning, MediaBistro directs our attention to Uncle Barky's item from yesterday about former KXAS'er Grant Stinchfield, who, after seven years on the job, left the NBC owned-and-operated in April so he could run for the U.S. House of Representatives. Stinchfield, whose wife Amy Vanderoef co-hos ... More >>

American Family Association Gives ABC's Good Christian Bitches An Early Publicity Push

​We noted just last week that ABC has already changed the title of Sex and the City creator Darren Star's adaptation of Kim Gatlin's book Good Christian Bitches, about a divorced mother of two moving back to the Park Cities. Right now, the working title is GCB -- and that's likely to change, since ... More >>

At the Palomar, Where Wade Emmert's Toast But Danny Clancy Refuses to Give In

Wade Emmert​There's a kid running around sucking the helium out of the red, white and blue centerpiece balloons here in the Palomar ballroom, and just like that, over the last hour or so, somebody's let the air out of the party here.While the crowd's still going hard for Boehner on the FOX News TV ... More >>

Those Who Opposed Bush Presidential Center at SMU Still Opposed to Bush Presidential Center

George W. Bush Presidential CenterThe baseball Bush used to throw out the first pitch of Game 3 of the World Series in New York City after September 11, 2001​They won't break ground on the George W. Bush Presidential Center at SMU till November 16, around the time his book's released. But beginnin ... More >>

Because It's Never Too Early to Run for Mayor ...

Jim Moore and Jim Foster at the Alamo​This is what the Google Machine tells me about Dallas defense attorney Jim Moore: He's a namesake in the Oak Lawn firm of Moore, Grant & Barrett. He's a Hillcrest and SMU graduate (just like my father, hmmm). He is indeed eligible to practice law in the st ... More >>

Commonwealth of Good Hair

Whitt's End: 1.15.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Haven't gotten a chance to ask him about it yet, but did I miss something or is Babe Laufenberg leaving CBS 11? Maybe he was buying CBS 11. Did I get that wrong? UPDATE: Says Laufenberg in a text ... More >>

Finding Their Special Purpose With Colin Powell, Rudy Giuliani and George W. Bush

Photos by Danny FulgencioFormer New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, among those praying for motivation in Fort Worth Monday​Despite the Monday-morning rain that littered surrounding freeways with wrecked cars, by 8 a.m. yesterday the Fort Worth Convention Center was packed with some 15,0000 people ... More >>

Frank Rich Says It's Lupe Valdez Who Really Scares the Heck Outta Glenn, Rush and Newt

​In his New York Times op-ed this morning, Frank Rich pours one out for Henry Louis-Gate. And as he moves from Cambridge to the White House (for the free beer), Rich stops to huff the Brit Humes at FOX News, where everyone's calling everyone else a racist these days (oh, that Glenn Beck!). So, why ... More >>

Whitt's End: 4.17.09

Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *If I were I am a betting man, and I am plunking down $1 that 105.3 The Fan and the Dallas Cowboys officially announce their flagship radio station partnership next week. Trust me when I say the ... More >>

The 10 Most Compelling People on TV

With the Rangers over and the Mavs resting and the Stars playing a meaningless hockey game - ugh, is there an uglier phrase in the English language? - I flipped around DirecTV for a moment last night before wondering aloud: If I had my choice, who would I watch right now? Then I answered myself. Wi ... More >>

FOX News Takes an Interest in Harold Simmons and Oprah's Friendship

This morning, Roger Friedman of FOX News has cobbled together a series of old newspaper clips and federal tax returns in an effort to make sense of the Oprah Winfrey-Harold Simmons love affair. Because, after all, Winfrey was chief among Barack Obama's backers, while the Dallas billionaire and Swift ... More >>

While We Wait For Our Dispatch from Bishop Arts, This Just In ...

Obama's Campaign Confirms It: The News Was Booted Off the Plane

Homicide or "Honor Killing": The Debate Resumes Following FBI Posting

DISD Explains Its New "Effort-Based" Grading Policy, At Great Length

To Meet a War Hero

Rhode Island Parents Woonsocket to "Pornographic" Dallas Author Will Clarke Over a Short Story

¡Ask a Mexican!

Channel 4: It's Foxy!

Havin' a Ball with the Mavs & Heat

¡Ask a Mexican!

A Love-Hate Thing

Unfair Squares

John Prine fans get pissed at his newest protest song. They must've already forgotten the old ones.

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A film denouncing corporate ruthlessness could use some downsizing

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