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AHHS Whistleblower Suspended

                        Fort Worth schools spokesperson Barbara Giffith confirmed today that former Arlington Heights High School assistant principal Joe Palazzolo, the whistle-blower in the...

Lowlights of the GOP Gubernatorial Debate

What was up with that idiotic aw-shucks expression that Rick Perry wore during last night’s GOP gubernatorial primary debate? The raised eyebrows, the squinty...

Want an NEA Grant? Only if You Voted Obama

In the 1930s, the U.S. government conscripted visual artists across the country to create what amounted to U.S. propaganda: murals of muscular farmers, posters...

Texas Newspapers Line Up Behind Romney/Ryan Ticket

Texas is a red state (though possibly not for long), so maybe it shouldn't come as a surprise that all but one of the...

Obama’s Nobel Is Novel

President Barack Obama said he doesn’t deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. A bunch of Americans agree with...

Is the Right Wing Right About ‘Avatar’?

The latest dispatch from the culture wars is the right wing’s attack column forming against Avatar. The Weekly Standard's John Podhoretz and John Nolte...

March Against Monsanto in Fort Worth

If you thought the only thing those lazy, entitled millenials dreamed about was getting famous on YouTube, think again: Many of them would also...

NRA, Obama Attack Movie Violence

The national gun debate has officially gotten surreal: President Obama and the National Rifle Association agree on something. At a news conference earlier today,...

Today’s Most Gruesome Story

Times are tough here, but in some parts of the world they're considerably tougher. Today's most gruesome story comes out of the Guardian, a British...

Anti-Abortion? Nah, More Like “Pro-Coat Hanger”

A historic and deceitful bid by Texas’ fringiest right-wing lawmakers (i.e., Republicans) to shut down the state’s legal, licensed abortion providers was met with...