Sam Hurd was never destined for the Cowboys record books. An undrafted wide receiver out of Northern Illinois, he recorded a modest 45 catches and 630 yards and excelled on special teams during four seasons with the team before he was traded to the Chicago Bears in 2011. What Hurd…
It’s been more than a year since Westboro Baptist Church last came to town. Then, they were calling God’s wrath down upon Glenn Beck and his “Restoring Love” shindig at Cowboys Stadium. Beck probably deserves to be protested. Most of Westboro’s targets — the families of fallen soldiers, the victims…
The story was absurd enough when the Fort Worth Star-Telegram first reported it earlier this week. Tempie Strickland, an 80-year-old Fort Worth woman fed up with her ex-husband’s lip and his late-night trips to the barber shop and bingo hall, allegedly tried to murder him on Sunday. Police said she…
Aledo’s David Barton was pretty sure he could have become Texas’ next Senator, as so many Tea Party leaders were encouraging him to do, but the time wasn’t right. “Right now, I believe my role is to continue educating, equipping and inspiring citizens through the work we do at WallBuilders,”…
Wayne Christian is eying a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, the state agency charged with the twin tasks of regulating the oil and gas industry. So naturally, Christian is campaigning hard on his unwavering opposition to abortion. Christian, a former state representative from East Texas, touts his pro-life bona…
As President Barack Obama was praising Obamacare volunteers at Dallas’ Temple Emanu-El last week, conservative activist James O’Keefe was plotting a visit of his own. O’Keefe, whose video stings have successfully taken down the community group ACORN and an NPR executive, had members of his Project Veritas team visit local…
November 22 is still nine days away, but the eyes of the world are already turning toward Dallas in anticipation of the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy being gunned down in Dealey Plaza. City leaders knew this would happen. It’s why Mayor Mike Rawlings has been working on his…
Ali Eskandarian was on the third floor of a row house in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, just after midnight on Monday morning when a disgruntled Iranian musician climbed onto the adjoining terrace and opened fire through the window. Eskandarian was killed instantly. So were two brothers, bandmates in the Yellow Dogs,…
For too long, the defenders of Christian liberty in this country have huddled in their bunkers while liberals have launched salvo upon salvo at Christmas, reducing it to a bland and tasteless mush of pan-religious inclusiveness. Bill O’Reilly would scurry into the open from time to time to issue loud,…
A student en route to Dallas ISD’s Townview Magnet died this morning after being struck by a car. The incident happened at East Dallas’ Bryan Adams High School. According to news reports, the teen was dropped off by a woman just before 9 a.m. to wait for the bus. The…
Monica Meza’s trips to Walmart don’t always end very well. In March, the 32-year-old was detained after waltzing out of a Northwest Dallas location with a cart full of nearly $300 worth of stolen merchandise. Police say the same thing happened earlier this month at the Supercenter on Central Expressway…
The fallout from Redneck Heaven’s Anything But Clothes day continues to ripple through North Texas. First came the crackdown in Lewisville, which had actually experienced the event, in which breastaurant workers covered their breasts and nether parts in latex paint and/or gum balls and/or goldfish. Next came Fort Worth, which…
The payday lending industry in Texas has managed to wrap its tentacles around just about every level of government there is, repeatedly killing any move toward meaningful regulation on the part of the state Legislature, skirting rules set up by municipalities, Dallas included, aimed at curbing its worst abuses, and,…
At first, the official story of what happened in the early morning hours of August 31, 2012, was that 25-year-old Michael Vincent Allen had led police on a high-speed chase through Garland and Mesquite before being herded into a cul de sac. In a last-ditch attempt to escape, he rammed…
Open Carry Texas has two main reasons for existing. One is to advocate for the open carry of firearms, which it does primarily by marching around in public wielding rifles and shotguns. The other is to troll liberals, which it does by marching around in public wielding rifles and shotguns…
At this point, it’s probably wise, even if you can’t bring yourself to forego shady workout supplements completely, to at least steer clear of stuff produced by Dallas-based USP Labs. Over the summer, the Food and Drug Administration forced the company to destroy $8 million worth of product containing dimethlyamylamine,…
At the beginning of the year, Lance Armstrong sat down for an exclusive, one-on-one interview with Oprah in which he tearfully copped to doping. At that point, it was little more than a formality, seeing as a mountain of evidence had already proved as much, but it was supposed to…
It’s not every man who could do what Paul Green did. Last year, first in a lawsuit and then on the local news, he came forward and admitted that he’d peed his pants. Granted, Green had a perfectly legit medical condition the precipitated the episode, but still. It’s not a…
Last week, Fort Worth unveiled the new, improved Sundance Square. Where once there were a couple of parking lots, now there is a pedestrian plaza complete with dancing fountains and a juggler. It’s a good thing. Now for the bad thing: Sundance Square’s 17-year-old Barnes & Noble is shutting its…
The City of Red Oak, about 15 minutes due south of Dallas, never really explained why Police Chief Craig Rudolph abruptly resigned this summer after six years on the job. Officials did, however, immediately appoint a special committee to review potential cases of racial profiling and race relations within the…
This weekend, heavily armored police, SWAT teams, bomb squads, and paramedics will descend upon 20 sites in North Texas–Irving’s Stipes Elementary, Tarrant County College’s Northwest Campus, Baylor hospital in Dallas, and some barns in Duncanville among them–for the region’s inaugural Urban Shield training exercise. It’s funded by the Department of…
Last night in Oak Cliff, at about 8 p.m., two Dallas police officers watched a dark-colored Cadillac speed through a red light. The car did stop at the next red light, at Hampton Road and Illinois Avenue, which is where the cops caught up with it. At first, it seemed…
