Rush Limbaugh

Do Mexicans Really Dislike Cubans?

Fluke Ain't No Floozy

How to Speak Republican: Decoding the GOP

EPA-Bashing Judge in Fracking Case Recuses Himself, Predictably Blames the Media

It must be codified somewhere in the Conservative's Guide to Crisis Management: Ensnared in scandal? Come across like an uninformed buffoon? Or are you a judge whose campaign fliers dispelled any appearance of impartiality in a really important case? Just blame it on the media. Sarah Palin became ... More >>

EPA Nut-Kicking Braggadocio Doesn't Save Judge in High-Profile Fracking Case From Republican Primary Opponent

Voters up in Parker County must not have thought much of district Judge Trey Loftin's campaign mailers bragging about how his "decision regarding deceptive actions by environmental extremists made the EPA reevaluate its national policy." That's pretty grandiose, and it sounded like he was referring ... More >>

Trey Loftin, the Judge in a High-Profile Fracking Case, is Bragging in Campaign Mailers About His EPA Nut-Kicking

Politics is politics, and incumbents running for re-election in conservative Parker County, Texas, where the local economy is fueled entirely by shale-gas production, want to look like champions of the industry. But what if you're a judge? And what if, at the very moment you put up fliers of Rush Li ... More >>

Eddie Bernice Johnson on Rick Perry: "I Don't Even Know This Governor Anymore"

Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, who worked as a nurse before heading to Washington, dropped by Martin Bashir's show on MSNBC to denounce Governor Rick Perry's stance toward Planned Parenthood (and to call Rush Limbaugh "un-American".) "I don't even know this governor anymore," the congresswoman says in ... More >>

So, About This Jessica Simpson Elle Cover...

There's much being said about the April issue of Elle magazine, which features Dallas' own Jessica Simpson as the latest star to pose nude and pregnant on the cover of a magazine. Because there's apparently no other way to photograph a woman with child than nude on the cover of a women's fashion mag ... More >>

Rockwall Rep. Ralph Hall Would Really Rather That No One Pays For Your Contraception

If you've been hiding under an especially sturdy and soundproof rock for the past month, perhaps you missed out on the increasingly bitter national debate over contraception coverage. Lucky for you, U.S. Representative Ralph Hall has taken a break from doubting global warming and talking about how i ... More >>

Why Does Karl Rove Hate America So Much?

Oh, boy. Another chance to say something good about Detroit. Nothing gets a bigger rise out of a certain element among you loyal Lawners than when I utter anything even faintly complimentary about my hometown. For reasons I may never fully understand, I would incite less mouth-foaming if I sang the ... 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 >>

We Went to Grapevine Last Night For a Sneak Peek at Sarah Palin Doc. A Tea Party Broke Out.

​If you drove to Grapevine last night, entered the mall on the corner of Grapevine Mills Boulevard and Stars and Stripes Way, hurried past the Legoland, the Foot Locker and, outside the aquarium, two children strapped into some kind of bungee-jumping ride, pogoing slowly over and over again from f ... More >>

The Top 10 People I Wish Failure Upon

​I've been known to be a glass-half-empty sorta guy. (Psst: I'm geniunely positive, I just like to play an a-hole in here and on 105.3 The Fan.) Last summer I wished failure upon the noggin' of one Terrell Owens. Whatdya know, he sucked in Buffalo and these days is without a job. Recently I t ... More >>

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 >>

Whitt's End: 10.16.09

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *According to my very unscientific research conducted on this very blog over the last two years, the most sensitive, whiny, irrational folks on Earth are: 1. Ticket P1s; 2. Right-wing Republicans; ... More >>

Man's World

At Citrus Bistro, Good Things Come from Big Packages

There’s no Shame in Being Called “Illegal”

10 Questions: Nick Badovinus

He's loquacious, that much is certain. And he's known for thick, floppy hair.But Badovinus can cook--something he's proven over and over again as he helped build Consilient Restaurants into a Dallas powerhouse...you know, Cuba Libre, Hibiscus, Fireside Pies. Those guys.A year ago he broke from the c ... More >>

The Anti-Dittohead

Hey, Mr. King of Talk Radio, meet the queen

Probably Our Last "Black Hole" Item, But, Ya Know, It's Rush Limbaugh (Updated: Now, With Video!)

Daniel Folmer

Wear Headphones (Gutterth Records)

Living With Post-War

M. Ward's recipe for political change: Let's ignore the president.

Do Not Get Your Freakonomics On

Mad Rushian

Play Nice or Else

Plus: Unripe Banana Case

Best Radio Talk Show

Mark Davis

The Right's Stuff

A Texas-based band of conservative warriors tackles the left on its own turf--the street

Letters

None Like It Lame

Connie and Carla models a classic but ends up being a drag

Bolton No More in ’04

And other New Year’s resolutions we’re not sticking with

The Nokia Unwired Tour

October 21

State Pen

My Morning Jacket is from Kentucky. Stop holding that against them.

Wave On

Music's lunatic fringe lives, breathes and flourishes on the shortwave radio dial

Last call

Even the return of Kevin McCarthy probably won't save the once-proud KLIF-AM -- er, Big 570

Eye of Newt

Lessons I learned the hard way: a personal report

Paranoid androids

Letters

Buzz

Letters

No more jelly roll

Jubilee Theatre updates ages-old tactic of the sex strike in Lysistrata PLEASE!

Buzz

Media merger madness

Cap Cities/ABC decision to fire radio host Hightower was a big mistake

Events for the week

A whiter shade of black

Global warning

Republicans are aiding and abetting denial of the worldwide shift in climate

Rushes

Cruelest cut

Deadbeat-dad Newt Gingrich wants to slash program for disabled children

Rape of the forest

Indonesia is home to one of the world's worst ongoing environmental tragedies

Fly paper

As a treatise on sexual harassment, Disclosure falls flat. But as entertainment, it's hard to resist