Westboro Baptist Church Is Coming to Picket Dealey Plaza

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…

In Texas, a Preemptive Attack Against the War on Christmas

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,…

Cedar Hill is Terrified of Redneck Heaven’s Painted Breasts

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…

Payday Lenders Are Using Texas Prosecutors to Collect Their Bad Debts

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,…

Lance Armstrong is Done Apologizing Now

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…