Common Sense

I don’t think I’ve really written anything concerning Texas politics this session, yet I still get press releases from state reps.
TENANTS’ ADVOCATES, TEXAS APARTMENT ASSOCIATION JOIN IN PRAISE OF ANCHIA’S GROUND-BREAKING TENANTS’ RIGHTS BILL
House Bill 3101Passes House, Senator West Carries it in Senate
                                                                                                           
 
Austin, Texas — On a (120-24) vote today, […]

I’m not entirely clear on how Sen. Dan Patrick’s bill requiring ultrasounds before a woman can get an abortion isn’t unconstitutional.
I’m no constitutional scholar, but when it comes to abortion rights and the Supreme Court, I’ve read up a little. Although, Roe hasn’t been overturned, the prevailing thought is that any restriction on abortion is […]

I know I should have been writing about Texas Politics for the last 60 or so days, but it is incredibly boring. I don’t know, I think the only thing different is that I stopped drinking in the middle of the day and started sleeping.

Thank you SuperWow! for informing me that City Councilman Ken Valentine is at the center of a recall petition. I guess New Braunfels residents finally got fed up with him and his douchebaggery.
You don’t remember Ken Valentine? If I said “Strippers on inner tubes” would that refresh you memory? Yes, it’s the same guy who […]

Right of Texas informs me that he’s hosting a radio show tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. What is it with everybody and their radio shows. Vincent, you should keep holding out for your own television show, like me.

Though I have yet to actually drive by and see one, I’ve heard the uproar over billboards stating: “I questioned homosexuality. Change is possible. Discover how.”
A fairly recent Wacoan, B. Joe Cline of Lighthouse Freedome Ministry, has decided he can cure gay people with something called “conversion therapy.” Basically, he says, you’re only gay because […]

Bush to Troops: Drop Dead… literally. There’s no other way to look at it, he wants to send more soldiers to Iraq to get killed so that his ego won’t get bruised. No one thinks this is a good plan and there has got to be a way to stop it. If it’s criminal to […]

Tomorrow, Jan. 9, the 80th Legislature begins work, new episodes of House begin on Fox… and I turn 24.
A momentous day. Almost as if it were the temporal junction point for the entire spacetime continum. Or a remarkable coincidence.
What’s on the agenda for the Lege? Well, they’ve still got a lot of work to do […]

I know many of you come here to read my reasoned and informed political opinion, but lately I haven’t had any because I don’t know what is going on. Sure, I’ve heard some grumblings that Pitts is just a stalking horse for Craddick (from quite a few people) and some people are bristling over who […]

Local hero (to me anyway) Congressman Chet Edwards, will be undergoing surgery to repair his larynx and he won’t be able to talk for five weeks. He’s not even allowed to speak before the surgery, which will be in Tennessee.
I don’t know if any other congressmen have gone that long without speaking before, but it […]