Washington has 100% mail voting, which is not only convenient for voters, but saves taxpayers the huge expense of polling places. There’s no evidence mail voting is less secure or leads to more voting fraud (see, e.g., story here). But if you move to Texas, only voters “65 or older, vot[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Texas’
Ted Cruz, nonsense peddler
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is the man who stood on a debate stage and smiled when Trump called his father a “terrorist,” and later sucked up to Trump. He’s the man who fled to sunny Mexico when his state’s power grid failed and his constituents froze, some to death. He can’t [...]
Dr. Fauci tells Ted Crud where to go
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) wants a special prosecutor to pursue criminal charges against Dr. Anthony Fauci for “lying to Congress.” To explain this, ABC News says, “Some Republicans, including Cruz and Sen. Rand Paul … have accused Fauci of lying to Congress when he denied in May t[...]
Texas hicks run off black high school principal
Let me say this upfront: Not all the residents of Colleyville, Texas (profile here), are ignorant hicks. Only some of them are. (More about that below.) Dr. James Whitfield was Colleyville Heritage High School’s first black principal. He didn’t teach “critical race theory,” w[...]
November 9th, 2021 - 5:34 pm § in Law and Courts
Six bicyclists were mowed down by a 16-year-old Texas “coal roller”
A Texas teenager thought he was being funny when he swerved his modified F-150 toward two groups of bicyclists training for a triathlon to scare them and hit the gas pedal to blow diesel smoke on them. He hit one of the groups. Six cyclists were injured; two were airlifted and two more transported t[...]
The crime wave Russia can’t control
Russia is being hit with a crime wave their cops can’t get a grip on. “Police have launched a wave of investigations against young people, mainly women, … for taking partially nude or sexually suggestive photographs next to Russian landmarks,” the Guardian reported on Friday,[...]
What if you call the police and they don’t come because they’re busy putting on their Klan robes?
In October 30, 2020, Biden campaign workers traveling in Texas by bus and car were ambushed by a “Trump Train” on the interstate highway passing through San Marcos, Texas. (Read background story here.) The Biden caravan had been harassed by other Trump Trains, but this was different. The[...]
October 14th, 2021 - 4:14 pm § in Law and Courts
States’ rights
“Lawyers for supporters of the Texas abortion law told a federal appeals court Thursday that the state was free to pass its law banning abortion after about six weeks because states can reach their own conclusions about whether abortion [is] constitutional,” NBC News reported on Thursday[...]
October 1st, 2021 - 11:13 am § in Law and Courts
How to beat Texas’ anti-abortion law
Even though abortion is still a constitutional right, for now, the media give the impression Texas’ law against it is unassailable in the courts. For example, The Hill noted (here) the law’s novel approach of “private enforcement has thrown up procedural obstacles to” legal c[...]
September 28th, 2021 - 4:16 pm § in Politics
Texas governor underwater in polls
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is for guns, and against voting, masks, gay marriage, and sex toys. He signed a bill offering citizen vigilantes bounties to sue strangers for exercising the constitutional right to an abortion. So why is he so popular with Texas voters? Does he have a killer chili recipe? Tur[...]