1. Rep. Waters’ Family Gets Rich on Mailers
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

... charge California candidates and political causes to include their names as her personal choices on a sample ballot, as ‘slate mailer,’ she mails to as many as 200,000 South Central Los A...

2. Gay Couples Can’t Divorce in Texas
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...udged that homosexual couples legally married in other states can not obtain a divorce in Texas, where same-sex marriage is outlawed. The Austin American-Statesman reports that, “the Texas 5th...

3. Drunk Baboons Invade South Africa Vineyards
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

... favorite – before traveling into the mountains to sleep-off a hangover. Some drunk baboons, who sample the tempting fruit that has fermented in the sun, pass out intoxicated and don’t ret...

4. Great Advice I Got from a Baptist
(Viewpoints/James Reza)

...t sharing account.  I recall Carl Motheral telling me to roll over my investments otherwise Uncle Sam would get a large portion of it. In the early 70s, my pastor and friend, Father Robert Alv...

5. Help Wanted: DEA to Hire 9 Ebonics Translators
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...hn Baugh, praised the DEA for seeking the translators and hopes other government agencies would do the same. To read the entire article from the Washington Times, link here: Tmcgregordallas@yahoo....

6. Bill White TV Ad Promotes ‘Nativist’ Economy
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...;t think that was fair, and it was a distortion, it was nativist thinking, and my opinion would be the same on the Back to Basics ad. I wonder if you’d like a response to that.” Apparent...

7. Don’t Say I Didn’t Warn You
(Viewpoints/John Browning's LEGALLY SPEAKING)

...why some individuals file what seem to be perfectly frivolous lawsuits, and I tell them it’s the same mentality that keeps people flocking to casinos even when they know the odds are stacked in ...

8. Former RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman: “I’m Gay”
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...d told of how, in private discussions with senior Republican officials, he beat back efforts to attack same-sex marriage. He insisted, too, that President Bush ‘was no homophobe.’ He often...

9. Debate Class: Mavs Centers, Bill Simmons And Me
(Sports/Mike Fisher's SCHOOL OF FISH)

... still in the NBA, almost anything above the vet’s minimum seems a little excessive, yes. At the same time, when they lost him the first time, it was in the Jason Kidd trade when New Jersey boss...

10. ‘New Delhi Super Bug;’ a Global Threat
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...e, and it’s unfair to create a scare perception about Indian hospitals. Indian citizens feel the same.” A New Delhi resident, Montgomery said, “I am afraid this is a basic conspira...

11. There's a Strange Prophet in the White House
(Viewpoints/Guest Viewpoint)

...Ramadan, Obama said: "As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country. That includes the right to ...

12. DA Watkins Forgets to Pay House Bill
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...DeSoto home occurred in November 2008. County records show that a lien was placed on the property that same month.” The documents do not disclose how Watkins’ defaulted or how much cash wa...

13. Majority of Americans Oppose Afghan War
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...ring the next year, while 29 percent think it will get worse. Some 49 percent think it will remain the same.” The figures could spell doom for the president and his Democratic Party, already con...

14. Richard Dawkins and the Battle for Humankind's Future
(Viewpoints/Guest Viewpoint)

...pects the spark of what theologians call divinity in every human being. These teachers must embody the same selfless dedication as the most rabid fundamentalist preacher, for they will be ministers of...

15. It’s Summertime, and the Litigating is Good
(Viewpoints/John Browning's LEGALLY SPEAKING)

...f bravado – or stupidity – to try to pull off a bank robbery like that.  It takes the same kind of bravado or stupidity to shoplift at a store, and then go for a job interview at that...

16. Guns of August?
(Viewpoints/Guest Viewpoint)

...ive at the right decision." Five years ago, Giraldi wrote, "it is hardly a secret that the same people in and around the administration that brought you Iraq are preparing to do the same f...

17. Let Me Tell You Why Senator Reid
(Viewpoints/James Reza)

...hy they keep voting for Democrats when as Albert Einstein so well stated, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expect different results.”  Here as per Forbes are ...

18. Putting Government First
(Viewpoints/Guest Viewpoint)

... ever earn, can stay in Fat City. And folks wonder why so many Americans detest government. In the same week Congress came back to prevent AFSCME from taking a haircut, the Wall Street Journal rep...

19. Too Hot for ICE?
(Viewpoints/Guest Viewpoint)

...be back in the United States within days to commit crimes – while U.S. citizens arrested for the same offenses serve prison sentences." Sounds like a policy of demoralization to me. You c...

20. Dormition in Turkey. Liturgy on the Black Mountain
(Viewpoints/Guest Viewpoint)

... The fame of the mountain shrine and of the sanctity of the two monks, who died in 412 (on the same day, tradition assures us), drew pilgrims, obtained donations, and above all summoned other ...

21. Weary of floods and violence
(Viewpoints/Guest Viewpoint)

...llies in Karachi and Rawalpindi, where she was assassinated, to the army's general headquarters in the same city. Last week in Peshawar, a suicide bomber walked up to the chief of the frontier const...

22. Nice Try, But . . . No
(Viewpoints/John Browning's LEGALLY SPEAKING)

...ing teens, etc.  Prosecutors spotted the doctored images due to certain details that remained the same in multiple photographs.  Simon also submitted bogus letters from charitable organizati...

23. Doggett amendment equals unsustainable spending growth
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...tions to the Doggett amendment. The Doggett amendment does not merely require the state to spend the same dollar amount that it currently spends on education. It requires the state to spend the same...

24. USS George Washington in Yellow Sea, Not Necessary
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...ashington, a nuclear aircraft carrier, to the Yellow Sea nearby Chinese territorial waters. Yet at the same time, Seoul is helping Tehran avoid UN-sponsored sanctions by permitting Bank Mellat, an ins...

25. ObamaCare prompts courts, voters to act
(Viewpoints/William Murchison)

...purchase. Meanwhile Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, and Virginia all have new state laws to the same effect. How much am I bet that some enterprising conservative won’t offer a similar me...

26. Doggett amendment among public education battles
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...ess Gov. Rick Perry certifies to the U.S. Secretary of Education that the state agrees to maintain the same level of school funding through 2013. The specific targeting of Texas, as expected, drew ...

27. Obama Makes Odd Alliance with Neocons
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...ved premature, however. A younger generation of neocons, and aligned hawks, wrote President Obama that same month. ‘We congratulated you on the (wartime) leadership,’ the letter read. They...

28. America's Ruling Class
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...s ruling class, from Boston to San Diego, was formed by an educational system that exposed them to the same ideas and gave them remarkably uniform guidance, as well as tastes and habits. These amount ...

29. If I Did It, Why Can They?
(Viewpoints/James Reza)

...iends, I bought the house and my payment was $60 a month.  Later, I bought two more houses in the same block.  I was suppose to pay out my house on Denver in 12 years, but with the rent mone...

30. Let's Cast 'Nolan Vs. Cuban,Texas Strangers: The Movie'!
(Sports/Mike Fisher's SCHOOL OF FISH)

...et the different-colored hats fool you: Nolan Ryan and foe Mark Cuban were in this fight for the exact same reasons. Allow me to do this in DallasBasketball.com style ... let's Thursday Morning Mavs D...

31. Mega Mosque Coming Soon to ‘Ground Zero’
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...rk Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union. Wait a minute, aren’t these the same organizations that tried to block the printing of Mother Teresa of Calcutta postage stamps? ...

32. Stolen Valor and Stolen Justice
(Viewpoints/John Browning's LEGALLY SPEAKING)

...und, they found out about the Grand Prix fiasco as well as the court documents showing that during the same time period that he was supposedly in Iraq, Strandlof was in fact sitting in a jail cell in ...

33. Sen. Cornyn to Attend Gay Fundraiser
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...ppointed to take charge of getting Republicans elected to the Senate has voted in opposition to ‘same-sex’ marriage and opposed a recent legislative initiative to repeal the military&rsquo...

34. Late S. Korean President Calls Current Ruler: ‘Dictator’
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...uo;   The Dong A Ilbo quotes Mr. Kim as saying about President Lee that, “he showed the same supercilious behavior he had while working at a construction company. I thought he was a pra...

35. Gusher of Wikileaks
(Viewpoints/Guest Viewpoint)

..., a cleric who had lost one eye as a guerrilla fighter against the Soviets. Mullah Omar then welcomed Osama bin Laden back after he was expelled by both Saudi Arabia and Sudan. Bin Laden had kept a ...

36. Chester Finn, Jr., Fordham Foundation: The ‘Fix’ Is In
(Viewpoints/Guest Viewpoint)

...od standing with the Bush administration. Now in 2010, it appears Chester Finn, Jr. has done the same thing except this time he wants to get in good standing with the Obama administration. ...

37. The policy mix from hell
(Viewpoints/Guest Viewpoint)

... damaging, especially when they follow more than a decade of monetary policy that was erroneous in the same direction. Instead of correcting to a sustainable level, the US savings rate, dete...

38. Venezuela Chavez Retreats from Colombia Dispute
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

... that, “there has not been any reinforcements, no military contingency, and our personnel is the same as we have worked with all year.” Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela, who ...

39. Will US Support Israeli Attack on Iran?
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...t U.S. forces in Iraq and also in Afghanistan. The resolution has appeared, not coincidentally, at the same time as major articles by leading neoconservatives Reuel Marc Gerecht and Bill Kristol calli...

40. Arizona Enjoys Tourism Boom
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...of Arizona, the occupancy had risen 5.7 percent in May and up to 8.3 percent in June compared with the same time a year ago. According to Fox, “in Phoenix, occupancy was up 10.6 percent in Jun...

41. Uncommon Sense
(Viewpoints/Guest Viewpoint)

...nsure homeowner loans that require little or no income verification and no down payment, many of those same loans will eventually default. If you finance homes of people who cannot afford them, there ...

42. Scents and Sensibility: When Evidence Doesn’t Pass the Smell Test (Part III)
(Viewpoints/John Browning's LEGALLY SPEAKING)

...he can is” – a big red flag, since the dog could be clued by the handler as to the correct sample.  According to Brisbin, to avoid the risk of such a tip off, neither the handler nor ...

43. North Korea Threatens Nuclear Attack
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...terday. Ri’s remarks came after Park Ui-chun, North Korea’s foreign minister, sat in the same room with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Hanoi for a security meeting of Asia’s...

44. Rotting Stench Flower Crashes Houston Wedding
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...may need to wear nose plugs as they join together in matrimony. All others in attendance should do the same. The young bride-to-be from Katy, fears that her wedding, scheduled for Saturday evening i...

45. Just 11% ‘Confident in Congress’
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...rusted institutions, with 48 percent expressing confidence in organized religion and 40 percent in the same for the medical system. The presidency and the Supreme Court are the two other major branc...

46. A three-front war?
(Viewpoints/Guest Viewpoint)

...e asking me, 'Am I willing to live with that versus living with a nuclear Iran, my answer is still the same -- 'We cannot live with a nuclear Iran.'" A former Arab leader, in close touch...

47. The Government's Catastrophic Response to the Oil Disaster
(Viewpoints/Guest Viewpoint)

... working on the spill. It can process 500,000 barrels of oily seawater per day, but it also needed the same waiver from the EPA which, expressed in another way, limits discharged water to trace amount...

48. Federal Preemption – But Only When It Suits Us
(Viewpoints/John Browning's LEGALLY SPEAKING)

...p; In what would seem to be a pretty accurate description of the reasoning behind the Arizona law, the same Memorandum states that “state law and national law often operate concurrently to provi...

49. Taliban Monkey Terrorists Prone to Mutiny?
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...distant observers, but the Taliban may stop ‘monkeying around’ if a mutiny erupts. If so, Osama bin Laden may need to find a new cave to hide in. To read the entire article from the Dail...

50. Obama not Taking Blame for Anything
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...sh for the Democrats’ likely Senate nominee, Robin Carnahan, that, “they are peddling that same snake oil that they’ve been peddling now for years, and somehow they think you will ha...