Results tagged “politics”

• More snow heads for the mid-Atlantic.
• Rep. Murtha, D-PA, who initially voted for the Iraq War but then became one of its most vocal critics, died yesterday at 77.
• Sen. Ben Nelson polishes his DINO credentials.

• Obama still working on that bipartisanship thing
• Iran still enriching uranium
• Palin still all winky and mavericky and stuff

As the economy continues to flounder, and folks continue to lose their homes and to fail to find work, and the news continues to report overcrowded food banks and the mess that is Wall Street and the other mess that is the bullshit “health care system,” I sometimes get this visual in my head of Obama. It’s late at night, and he’s just walked into the First Bedroom. Michelle is lifting her little weights, toning her lovely arms. Here, in this private space, Obama lets go of the Joe Cool façade that on good days he is admired for and, of late, nets him accusations of being a compassionless animatronic incapable of actual change. Obama looks at Michelle, balls up his hands, stomps his feet, and screams, “I FUCKING HATE GEORGE W. BUSH. I HATE HIM I HATE HIM I HATE HIM!!! THIS IS ALL HIS FAULT!!” more ›

• UK troops pave way for super massive blackhole NATO Afghan assault.
• Toyota’s chief apologizes, says company is in crisis.
• Knife-wielding politician refuses to step down in IL lt. governor's race.

• Kay Bailey Hutchison took a campaign contribution from a toll road builder? Wait, we thought it was Perry who was in favor of the toll roads, and Hutchison who was against them.
• It seems there is some room for improvement in the services that Capital Metro offers customers with disabilities. Like, say, a wheelchair accessible way to get from the bus stop to the bus.
• Hail may be possible in Austin on Thursday night.

• Texas oilman, Republican fundraiser, and NAFTA supporter Robert Mosbacher dies at 82.
• Photos of the Port Arthur oil spill.
• Yikes! Land shifting in a San Antonio subdivision leads to evacuation of a neighborhood.

• Sarah Palin will campaign with Rick Perry in Houston in February, at an event called “Super Sunday with Sarah!”
• WTF? An off-duty Plano officer was allegedly driving drunk when he hit an on-duty police car. Both officers were injured enough to go to the hospital.
• The Vet school at Texas A&M now has their own blacksmith.

• New Jersey legalizes medical marijuana.
• 2009 was a banner year for the Federal Reserve.
• Miep Gies, the secretary who helped hide the Frank family in Amsterdam, dies at 100.

• Senator Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison opens an office in Dallas that’s dedicated to getting her a fancy office in Austin.
• Austin taxi rides may cost you more in the future.
• Congressmen on Gossip Girl are way younger 'n' hotter than Congressmen usually are in real life.

• California's gay marriage ban on trial
• Harry Reid's Obama comments, again
• Yeah, that Facebook bra color thing?

• Two senators and a governor said they would not seek re-election in 2010
• Yemen captures key Al-Qaeda chief as embassies reopen
• Google debuts Android-powered Nexus One ‘superphone’

• Republican DeMint to continue blocking Obama's TSA chief nominee
• Obama effigy found hanging in Plains, Ga.
• The taxman cometh, chapter one: IRS to regulate tax prep industry for the first time ever

• Detroit terror case: explosive could have blown hole in plane
• Western counter-terrorism help 'not enough for Yemen'
• Transportation Security Chief nomination still on political hold

• Newsweek predicts that Democrat Bill White will beat Perry in the governor's race in 2010.


• Thom Yorke at Copenhagen climate summit: "The Americans...don't seem to be coming in offering anything new."


• US border agents who work for drug traffickers.

Businessman Farouk Shami and former Houston mayor Bill White are now alone (as of now) in their race for the Democratic nomination for governor; Kinky Friedman has chosen to instead focus on the race for State Agriculture Commissioner. He will face off on the Democratic ticket with Hank Gilbert (who was also considering a run for governor). Friedman hasn't endorsed any gubernatorial candidate, but said, "There is a clear alternative for the people of Texas, and today I'm changing courses with a happy heart." [Texas Tribune] more ›

• U.S. envoy's N. Korea trip brings no commitment on nuclear talks.
• Defense Secretary Robert Gates predicts new sanctions against Iran.
• Obama garners rare unified praise for Nobel speech.

• Say it ain't so, Tiger: Footsie Down Under?
• Obama expected to announce troop increase in Afghanistan
• War strategy shift: Put the Pak in Af-Pak

The Dallas Morning News reports that Democrat Tom Schieffer is pulling out of the gubernatorial race, and plans to formally announce his withdrawal this afternoon. more ›

Conservatives can sleep soundly knowing the fight for gay marriage is not returning to Texas shores—at least not entirely. The only Democratic candidate for Texas Attorney General, Barbara Radnofsky, says Texans were so eager to ban gay marriages in 2005 that they banned marriages altogether. Don't understand how? Read on. more ›

• Poll says Americans are divided on health care. Yup.
• NY 23 election, two weeks later: Hoffman un-concedes after nudging from Glenn Beck.
• Don't worry, you can still have your raw oysters - bacteria and all!

“This is an administration hell-bent on taking America towards a socialist country,” said Perry in a speech this morning. The video footage, via myWestTexas.com, is reposted after the jump. more ›

As they've been promising, the Texas Tribune officially launched its site this morning. With the debut comes a plethora of content, including the results of the first-ever University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll (we'll report on this later), almost a dozen downloadable databases of stuff from gubernatorial appointees to Texas campaign expenditures, and a nifty page that lists all elected officials and what party they belong to. more ›

A judge in Dallas and state Attorney General Greg Abbott are publicly butting heads over a potentially precedent-setting gay divorce case. more ›

Governor Perry's campaign has drummed up a creative way for its supporters to profit off its success. more ›

Members of Governor Perry's re-election campaign are in a huff after the web video feed broadcasting his live speech was hijacked by hackers. more ›

The Austin headquarters for Equality Texas, a statewide organization that educates and engages people on policies and their effect on Texans of all sexual orientations, were vandalized this past weekend. Perpetrators smashed the large plate glass window facing the street, but didn't enter the building or remove any of its contents. more ›

• The uninsured are more likely to have Republican or Blue Dog representatives in Congress.
• The Southeast floods; 8 people lose their lives.
• Obama at the UN to talk about climate today.

• The explains what Saturday’s Longhorn Game really meant in the grand scheme of things.
• Dell Children’s Medical Center has so many flu patients that they are setting up outside tents to deal with the overflow!
• Political Smackdown: Governor Goodhair vs. Senator Goodhair.

• The next Osama bin Laden?
• Best frenemies forever: China talks smack about U.S. tire duty taxes
• New bin Laden tape surfaces

Exuberant Austinite Marc Katz, owner of Katz's Deli, intends to run as the Democratic candidate for Texas' lieutenant governor position next year, he announced over the weekend. more ›