National Rifle Association

What Is a Movie Critic's Job in the Summer of Comic Books? A Discussion

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 >>

State Rep. Wants Nursing Moms to Be "Modest and Respectful," Inspires Facebook Backlash

There are a couple of bills bouncing around the state Legislature now that would make it easier -- or, rather, make it harder to interfere with -- to breastfeed in public. We wrote about one of them, state Representative Jessica Farrar's HB 1706, which would allow women to sue if prevented from usin ... More >>

The NRA is Now Sponsoring the NASCAR Race at Texas Motor Speedway, Because of Course they Are

File this one under things we're surprised to learn didn't happen 50 years ago: the folks at Texas Motor Speedway announced today that the National Rifle Association -- as in the rabidly pro-gun lobbying group -- is now the title sponsor of the NASCAR race there this spring. But no. This is new. So ... More >>

Bob Costas' Sin: By Talking About Gun Violence, He Let Reality Intrude into Football's Fantasyland

So what was it -- really -- that got everybody so fired up about Bob Costas' timid little attempt at a gun control message on Sunday Night Football last Sunday? Was it less about gun violence than the intrusion of real life into the violent dreamscape of professional football? In the first place, C ... More >>

Ask Fan Landers: Is My Band A Make-A-Wish Style Charity For Marginally Ambitious Bassists?

Are you a musician? Is your band having issues? Our new advice columnist, Fan Landers (aka Jessica Hopper), is ready to give you Real Talk about any problems your musical outfit might be having -- whether professional, practical or sartorial. Send your problems here; confidentiality is assured, unle ... More >>

Fear, Loathing and Tons of Strippers: What Happens When the GOP Comes to Town

Colorado Shooting Shows Again How the NRA Plays us for Patsies

You're kidding me, right? We just sit here like patsies and let the gun nuts tell us we're not allowed to protect ourselves from the next James Holmes? We know there will be a next one, because we know there was a Jared Lee Loughner,  a George "Jo Jo" Pierre Hennard, a Mark David Chapman, a John W ... More >>

Get Locked and Loaded

Area Gun Dealer Pretty Sure That New Two-Per-Customer Law Won't Solve Border Violence

Via.So long as we can still get one of these​An edict from the Justice Department to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives paved the way Monday for tighter regulation of repeat purchases of semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines in border states. The feds' f ... More >>

With Richie Whitt on his pit crew, Tony Stewart faded fast at Texas Motor Speedway

We're almost sure it was a coincidence.

Puppy-Dog Grins, Chest-High Water and a New Perspective at This Weekend's Jailbreak Race

Photos by Man O'The HourHordes this size and larger took off to run the Jailbreak every half hour for two long days this weekend.​The thing that people like me -- people who hate running -- say about running is that they don't do it unless they're being chased. But I'm not even sure that being cha ... More >>

Governor Perry Drops By East Dallas Gun Shop to Remind Us How Much He Loves Second Amendment, Hates Coyotes

Sam Merten​Gov. Rick Perry said concealed handgun laws have made Texas safer during a campaign stop at McClelland Gun Shop yesterday afternoon while receiving endorsements from the National Rifle Association and the Texas State Rifle Association. He also continued to milk his story about killi ... More >>

The Humane Society and big agriculture slug it out over animal rights

Re: FYI, Read This ASAP. OMG!

The following is a prime example of my curse here on Earth. A fleeting thought sprouts into a mild observation, only to bloom into a thesis that eventually flourishes into a blog item with sports branches. My apologies ... Got a text the other day, the salutation of which was LOL ... More >>

Vaught Says of Keffer's Immigration Mailer: "It's Insanity, Absurdity."

The Hard Lie

How former Ticket host Greg Williams destroyed the most dynamic duo in Dallas talk radio through drugs, deceit and disaffection

Corporate Affairs

With so many major company-sponsored shows stopping in town this month, we're starting to wonder just how far this trend might go

Texas Concealed Gun Laws Loosen

Have a gun? Feel free to travel.

Former UTD Student Gets Six Years

Charleton Heston, Jr.

Ted Nugent rolls into Dallas

Presidency of the Wild

With a gun in one hand and a crossbow in the other, we warm to the dream of a Nuge '08 ticket

To the Moon

Have Gun, Will Unravel

Lars von Trier goes off on another rant about American violence

The Same, but Different

Plus: Panic Button; Ready, Aim...

The Shootist

Terry Anderson thought he'd be in Athens right now, chasing his lifelong dream of Olympic gold. Instead, he's in prison, his life plugged full of holes.

Blood Money

Why John Cusack wouldn't do anything till he made this Hitler movie

Fake Out

At the Deep Ellum film fest, fact becomes fiction becomes fact

Safe at Home

Don’t forget the local boys...and girl

Ape Escape

Tim Burton monkeys around with an icon, but is it evolution?

The Party Party

Why young, degenerate, cocksure Republicans love drugs, guns, and Bush

Swing Vote

Think all politics is local? In the 5th District, think again.

Deep impact

A West Texas divorce case could soon change the nation's gun laws

Granny get your gun

Dallas' pistol-packing 'Second Amendment Sister'--63-year-old grandma Mary Thompson--takes aim at a million moms

Inside the soapbox

Michael Moore gets out of his La-Z-Boy to find The Awful Truth

Bully Pulpit

Pushy, driven, and fearless, Texas Secretary of State Elton Bomer is Bush's big man on the border. But is he tough enough to cut through the red tape snarling efforts to help the poor people living in the colonias?

Of men, meat, and money

Capital Grille lays it on thick

Letters

Buzz

Pelted!

When an animal rights activist came up against Neiman Marcus, she had more than some dead fur to contend with

Congressional hopeful Jerry Frankel has ideas, brains, and GUTS.

Dick Armey will eat his lunch.

Blue-collar blue bloods

Phil Gramm and the R's cozy up to the average working guy

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

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Roky's road

The father of psychedelia is not insane, just a little crazy