U.S. Presidential Election

T. Boone Pickens Takes Sen. John McCain's Former Presidential Campaign Strategist To Court Over Loan

T. Boone Pickens -- billionaire oil man, erstwhile wind-energy apostle, multimillion-dollar donor to Karl Rove's super PAC -- wants his money back. According to a filing in Dallas County court, he claims he's getting mostly stiffed on a $125,000 loan he made to political consultant John Weaver, who ... More >>

Lovin’ On Loni

Someone Really Should Explain to Mitt Romney How Markets Affect Coal

If your debate-watching drinking game included a shot for each use of the word "coal," you either peed on your roommate's couch or had your stomach pumped. Or both. The primitive fuel was invoked some 22 times, apparently, mostly by Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor ... More >>

Meet Naomi Aberly, the Dallas Woman Who's Raised $1 Million For Obama

Uber-Republican billionaire Harold Simmons is Dallas' biggest player in the presidential money game, having pledged to pump $36 million into the election by November. But Dallas has a well-heeled partisan on the other side of the aisle in Naomi Aberly, and she's doing her part to make this the most ... More >>

Mark Cuban: Of Course We're Better Off Than Four Years Ago, So Stop Asking

The Democrats are gathered in Charlotte for the quadrennial circle jerk in which they deliver bombastic speeches and anoint their presidential nominee. Last week, the Republicans did the same in Tampa. These respective echo chambers inevitably lead to an increase in the type of one-sided political b ... More >>

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 >>

Texas Plans to Use Medicaid Expansion it Rejected to Pay For Women's Health Program

In early June, Governor Rick Perry was quick to announce that no state of his would be taking any of that tyrannical federal money to expand Medicaid coverage. Yet court documents filed by outgoing Health and Human Services Commissioner Tom Suehs claim that the state's new, Planned Parenthood-free W ... More >>

Rick Perry Less Than Excited To See Obama In Texas, Suggests He Should Apologize for AG Holder's Comments On Voter ID Law

President Barack Obama will be in Texas for approximately five minutes today, attending some fundraisers in San Antonio and Austin. An LGBT Leadership Council event in Austin costs anywhere from $250 to $7,500 to attend, while the Statesman claims another event at the Four Seasons there will cost $ ... More >>

Texas Democrats Make Fun of Republicans with Weird Animated Video, Santorum Jokes

Someone has shown the Texas Democratic Party the video creator apps on YouTube, and the results are Lego George W. Bush, a joke about santorum (the frothy kind), a version of Rick Perry that looks like a rotund funeral home director and some jabs at sweater vests. Politicians, please start making ... More >>

Mitt Romney Moves Left With Education Plan. That'll Never Last.

Oh, man, and me a total Obamatoid! Am I going to have to vote for Mitt Romney? But he's already way to the left of Obama on education and batting 1.000 on one of my favorite themes, the need to integrate schools by class, not race. For years there has been persuasive research out there arguing that ... More >>

All Jokes, No Pranks This April Fool's Day

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 >>

Tom Leppert and the Young Republicans Solve the World's Problems

If you happened to stumble upstairs at the Londoner last night, you might have wondered just what the hell was going on. Why were so many of these men wearing suits to the bar? Is that a sweater vest in the corner? Everyone's throwing the word "santorum" around with such enthusiasm -- have we stumbl ... More >>

Rick Perry Vows to Save the Medicaid Women's Health Program from the Evil Feds

Update, March 10: Federal Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced late Friday in Houston that federal funding to the WHP would be cut. She said the program will wind down over the next several months, and that the feds are considering funding Planned Parenthood directly. In r ... More >>

Rick Perry and State Health Commissioner Insist Obama Hates Women, Loves Abortion

A few days ago, we told you that Texas's Medicaid Women's Health Program appears to be on death's door, which could leave some 130,000 low-income Texas women without vital medical care. We also mentioned that Gov. Rick Perry's administration appeared eager to blame the program's end on the feds broa ... More >>

Speak of the Devil: Santorum's Coming to Town as Jeffress Joins O'Reilly to Talk "Satan" Speech

​Says here Rick Santorum's coming back to town tomorrow for a fundraiser on behalf of his Red, White and Blue Fund super PAC, which declined to nail down the Dallas date; it also doesn't appear on his official campaign schedule, and his campaign folks haven't responded to our queries either. But a ... More >>

Governor Gaffe Comes Back to Texas, Wounded But No Wiser

Wait a minute. Forgive me, but I must misuse and abuse a bit of Dylan Thomas here to suggest we should not let Rick Perry go quite so gentle into that good night. I'm reading a lot of crap about how he bombed in his presidential campaign because he was "ill-prepared" and committed gaffes. It's way ... More >>

Merry Effing Christmas to Rick Perry and the Tea Party -- From the Kids

​I'm having particular trouble this year with Toys for Tots. Put it on me for being a grinch. But, look. I see this big smarmy hoopla on the TV news every night with the weatherman and a bunch of shiny-eyed volunteers in North Face parkas handing out useless plastic Big Box crap for the poor ... More >>

Short on Daylight, Long on Spiritual Light

Another Crushing Revelation About Cain

I am in contact with a woman whose identity I have agreed not to divulge, a middle-aged affluent Republican homemaker in the snooty Park Cities portion of Dallas, who says that she has not had an affair with Herman Cain. Of course I found her story difficult to believe at first, and I have subjecte ... More >>

Why Robert Jeffress Is Endorsing Rick Perry

​First Baptist Dallas's Robert Jeffress is throwing in with Rick Perry, which is hardly a surprise given Jeffress's participation in that meeting with Perry and pastors back in June at James Robison's LIFE Outreach International campus in Euless. (Also: Jeffress would never, ever endorse Mitt Romn ... More >>

Perry Sticks By His Guns on Social Security

Are you listening, old people?

Romney Eats Arlington BBQ, Says "Country Can Learn a Lot of Lessons From Gov. Rick Perry"

​Mitt Romney, who's polling well amongst would-be GOP presidential contenders, stopped in Arlington today to grab a bite of Rudy's barbecue -- and take a bite out of President Obama, specifically his Middle East policy speech, which Romney said "threw Israel under the bus," a sound bite making the ... 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 >>

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The Final Countdown

Rock the vote and party in Dallas

Current Events at ACL Fest: Democrats, Republicans and Washington Mutual

Peggy Noonan Calls "Bullshit" on McCain for Not Going With Kay Bailey

Harold Simmons Hates Barack Obama, But Really Likes the Dallas Zoo

Using Cal Jillson, Like Everyone Else, to Get to Sarah Palin's Sportscast

Did Local Rockers Greater Good Play The Democratic Convention? Like Just Now?

Pickens "Encouraged" By Obama -- Or, At the Very Least, By His Energy Plan

Small Change

Presidential candidates vie (and pander and plead) for one heart and mind in Swing Vote

McCain's Talking "Texas T-Bone"

Wherein We Step Gingerly Into That Whole Sandra Crenshaw "Imbroglio"

The "Intense" Rivalry Between Clinton and Obama's Stonewall Supporters

Obama and Me

It was the year 2000, and I was a young, hungry reporter in Chicago with a young, hungry state legislator on my speed dial

Voting Early, Voting Often

Plans Today? Hillary Clinton's in Dallas and Fort Worth Today, If You Don't.

Ackermans to Light Up Dallas Obama Fundraiser

The Broken Promises of NAFTA

And to Your Right, Some Conservatives

Hi, Craig

Ozomatli

Sunday, October 8, at the Granada Theater

Blame Canada

Bad Judgment

That's the problem with the Democratic Party--anyone can join

Fog of War

A group of veterans says John Kerry stretches the truth about his Vietnam service. Who can you believe? Who knows?

Ross on the ropes

Ross Perot inspired his Reform Party followers to throw the hypocritical rascals out of politics. They did.

The Nerd Behind the Throne

Karl Rove has masterminded all of Bush's political victories. Now he faces his toughest challenge: convincing you that the presidential front-runner owns his own soul

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