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Kelly Clarkson Boggles While Clinton Ogles

Alicia Keys, who vowed to do something different with the national anthem during her upcoming Super Bowl performance, might take inspiration from Tarrant County's...

Americans Like To Water

The Arlington City Council killed a motion to enact permanent water restrictions after several residents lambasted the idea as "un-American." The mayors of Fort Worth,...

Ted Nugent Leads a Confederacy of Assholes

By now, Texas voters are accustomed to making excuses to themselves during primary season: "Of course the Republican candidates’ TV ads are so extreme...

Civil Rights or Civil Rights Lawsuit? FWISD Board to Decide Tonight

It’s called “cracking” by the courts, long-time civil-rights lawyer Jason Smith wrote in an op-ed piece recently in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. It is...

Families First Rally Draws Hundreds

Chants of “Families belong together!” echoed throughout the lobby of the Fort Worth Convention Center yesterday morning as part of an event dubbed the...

A Small but Significant Win for Palazzolo

It’s not a big win, but it’s a win nonetheless and Joe Palazzolo needs a few these days. The former assistant principal and whistleblower...

Texas GOP Loses House Super- majority, Ensures Nasty 2013 Session

Just a year and a half ago, Texas Republicans enjoyed almost total control of the state government. Their 102-48 supermajority in the House --...

Obama’s Nobel Is Novel

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

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...

President Obama Inhales Common Sense

What a difference a president makes. Under President Obama, the Justice Department said today that people who toke the ganja or distribute weed for...