Learning to Love Big Gas
In his Aug. 26 Fort Worth Weekly report, "The Big Takeover," Peter Gorman wrote about all the bad publicity that natural gas extractors have...
Joe Barton: Not Too Bright
Hardly a day goes by that I don’t hear someone around here complaining about politicians who are ignoring the will of the people or...
Today Libya, Tomorrow Syria?
Last Friday saw the first nationwide protests against the Baath regime in Syria. If these protests develop into a full-scale revolt, the regime’s response...
Air Apparent
Sometimes you can look at an unpopular law and say, OK, I disagree with that, but I understand why it was passed.
Some statutes...
Governor Take All
The fractured nature of the race for Texas governor has some candidates for other offices a bit nervous and off-balance. Unless they are in...
Foreign Phallacy
When a commercial for a male enhancement drug came on the other night while my family and I were watching television, my 10-year-old daughter...
More Perry?
Gov. Rick Perry had hinted he might run again in 2010. But now Perry flatly says he will - regardless of what plans U.S....
Getting Along
Texas legislators from time to time “memorialize” Congress to do this or that. Since the request bears no force of law, the result is...
Trading Rick for Kay
There will be an election for the United States Senate seat currently held by Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison in 2012, but her name won't...
Protesting Too Much
Fort Worth Star Telegram business writer Mitchell Schnurman called it "petty politics" and suggested maybe someone forgot to kiss a certain person's ring.
He was...
