Sarah's blog

Cokie Roberts.

But AFAIC, she's right on this one -- or at least a hell of a lot closer to right about what you should do with a guy who drugs, rapes and sodomizes a 13-year-old kid than nearly any other Villager (or media / entertainment / political 'star') voice I've heard on this subject. Read below the fold...

Burnt Orange Report is asking the question: has Texas' governor, Rick Perry, desperate to keep his job, undertaken Nixonian tactics?

Short answer: Sure looks that way. The Cameron Todd Willingham execution in 2004 has attracted attention -- but there're more examples, and the Willingham case appears now to be the one that's picked up public notice. Read below the fold...

_{Star-Telegram/Ron T. Ennis}

Tony Romo dodges Tyler Brayton in the second quarter as the Carolina Panthers play the Dallas Cowboys at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Tx., Monday, Sept. 28, 2009. Star-Telegram/Ron T. Ennis.

It's Tuesday, and I'm with Tony Romo. This week's better than last week.

It ended like this: Read below the fold...

I mentioned earlier that many schools had decided not to show, live, the President's address to school children on the first day of his daughters' new school year. Now we're finding out that at least a few of those schools' claims they had no room in the curriculum or the class day for the address were (gasp) truthiness in service of obfuscation. Read below the fold...

Somehow or another, I've been added to the mailing list of The American Family Association. Can't seem to get off the damned thing, either. So ... I got this "invitation" today for a "webinar". It's all Free!! FREE!!! FREE!!! Supposed to be good training, too.
Here are some of the 24 workshops that you can view: Read below the fold...

Be damned. Evidence that high fructose corn syrup, which was a ubiquitous part of the modern American diet starting about the time New Coke came out, has contained mercury all these years. Not the inert kind in old fillings, either. Might've figured into Colony Collapse Disorder, too. Read below the fold...

Dallas takes a licking and Tech takes a pounding, and I have a whole week to contemplate the folly of being a football fan. Yeesh.

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Swine flu is still a deadly disease, although as a pandemic it's not as virulent as the avian flu. Still, people are trying to sanitize their personal universes in response ... Read below the fold...

Coming out of the West, to save the day? Montana, New Mexico, Hawaii, Oregon, Wisconsin, Illinois, and yes, Vermont have Democratic Senators at work on this issue.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission had accepted a Bank of America plan to pay a mere $33 million fine, but Federal Judge in the case isn't going along with the Merrill Lynch bonus hijinks any more than he will the AIG jiggery-pokery. Read below the fold...

_{Wide receiver Miles Austin, right, slips a tackle from Tampa Bay Buccaneers safety Jermaine Phillips (23) before scoring a touchdown in the second quarter. AP Photo}

It remains to be seen tomorrow night how Terrell Owens' first game as a Buffalo Bill will go, but the Dallas Cowboys' season opener decisively underlined the benefit of having him out of their locker room. Read below the fold...

which is a blog I bet none of y'all have heard about yet: Rush Limbaugh can't handle the truth.

Surprise.
Surprise!
Surprise!!!
(NOT.) Read below the fold...

This guy, remember, was wooden and offputting; he sighed too much and wore earth tones and threatened to put Social Security in a lockbox.

AlterNet points out that Al Gore was right.

But the Beltway wanted a President they could have a beer with...

Hey, that worked out so well for us all, didn't it? Read below the fold...

About this time of the afternoon eight years ago our Dallas office, which was then in a building near the Dallas World Trade Center, sent home all nonessential employees.

Those of us in Lubbock were left to stare in shock and dismay at the televised coverage of the events in New York City, Washington, D.C., and a field in Pennsylvania as the toll mounted and the terror spread. Read below the fold...

HR 3200:

False: Illegal Immigrants Will Be Covered

One Republican congressman issued a press release claiming that "5,600,000 Illegal Aliens May Be Covered Under Obamacare," and we’ve been peppered with queries about similar claims. They’re not true. In fact, the House bill (the only bill to be formally introduced in its entirety) specifically says that no federal money would be spent on giving illegal immigrants health coverage:

H.R. 3200: Sec 246 — NO FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS

Nothing in this subtitle shall allow Federal payments for affordability credits on behalf of individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States.

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