Emptying the Trough
I know a lot of people in this country who are struggling. Good, hardworking people who believe in the system despite the fact that...
Counting Craddick’s Woes
While Gov. Rick Perry was off stumping in Iowa on behalf of Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, district-by-district political skirmishes were going on at...
Stop or We’ll Pay You
Every day, John McCain chastises Barack Obama for his original stance on the troop surge in Iraq. McCain says Obama said the surge wouldn't...
Glad We Knew Ya
Texas Christian University football coach Gary Patterson should get out of town.I'm not saying this because TCU has lost two games this year, meaning...
Grass Capitalist
Toward the end of the presidential campaign, I started hearing the Republican rank and file express worries that the election of Barack Obama as...
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...
The Price of Cake
There's something a bit sad and desperate about this gas drilling business. With utility bills mounting, the economy shuddering, and college costs rising so...
A Prairie Solstice
A life in the anonymity of street shadows is preferred to the glaring public eye. Yet it's no problem, flourishing in our Sun's living...
Literary Villains
I grew up in Cleburne, and the news that a group of parents are calling for the removal of Ken Follett's Pillars of the...
Death Be Not Prosaic
Texas executions will be starting back up again this month, after an eight-month dry spell while the U.S. Supreme Court considered whether lethal injection...
