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Texas Republican Congressman Pete Sessions’ Week of Scandal
Republican Rep. Pete Sessions celebrates with supporters after claiming victory over Democratic Rep. Martin Frost for the Texas 32nd Congressional District House seat in November, 2004. Photo by Jeff Mitchell / Reuters.Self-styled ‘morality champion’ pays strippers with campaign money, raises … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, Pete Sessions, Political Corruption, Political Scandal, Republican Party, Texas
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Texas Death Row : Those Who Are About to Die
Photo courtesy of the Wood Family / Austin Chronicle.Your Texas death machine gets rolling once againBy Jordan Smith / August 1, 2008 A Nation of Laws? José Medellín.Scheduled for Execution Aug. 5: José Medellín There is no doubt that the … Continue reading
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Tagged Capital Punishment, Criminal Justice, Human Rights, Texas, Texas Death Row
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Circuit Court Upholds Ruling : Texas Sex Toy Law Unconstitutional
Texas Republican AG Greg Abbott denied appealBy Karl-Thomas Musselman / August 2, 2008 It looks like the 14th Amendment is going to win out over Texas Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a … Continue reading
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Tagged 14th Amendment, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Criminal Justice, Sex Toys, Sexuality, Texas
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Houston : ‘The Colossal Colon’
Tours We’d Rather Not TakeBy Richard Connelly / July 30, 2008 Officials at LBJ Hospital [in Houston] are giving tours of a giant asshole. Officially called “The Colossal Colon,” the “8-foot-tall, 20-foot-long colon is designed to help hospital guests learn … Continue reading
Prisons : Why Texas Still Holds ‘Em
Forget oil and gold. In the Lone Star state, the boomtown business is locking up immigrants.By Stephanie Mencimer This article appears in the July/August issue of Mother Jones. In 1997, with the private prison business booming, the Corrections Corporation of … Continue reading
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Tagged Detention, Hutto Prison, Immigration, Incarceration, Prisons, Private Prisons, Texas
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Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers : They’re B-a-a-a-a-ck!
Updated July 31, 200840th Anniversary ‘Freak Brothers Omnibus’: complete works plus previously unpublished materialBy Steve Bunche This August, the U.K. comics publisher, Knockabout Comics will answer the prayers of classic underground comics aficionados with the publication of a massive 40th … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Comix, Counterculture, Freak Brothers, Gilbert Shelton, Sixties, Texas
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Texas Beach Study Finds Increase In Fecal Contamination
Galveston beach: everyone in!‘Texans should not be swimming in human and animal waste’By Jay Root / July 29, 2008 AUSTIN — A day after state officials declared water quality on the rise at Texas beaches, an environmental group reported today … Continue reading
BOOKS : Justice, Texas Style
Read About It While You CanBy Craig Malisow / July 28, 2008 Authorities in Smith County (Tyler) might not be happy to learn that Smith County Justice, a book alleging systemic corruption and unusually harsh sentences in the county — … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Corruption, Criminal Justice, Official Repression, Texas
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EDUCATION : Texas Fiction Science
Image © Austin Cline, Licensed to About; Original Poster: Library of CongressThe State Board of Education does its part to fantasize biologyBy Andrea Grimes There’s nothing the evil overlords of the fictional future like more than a nice, healthy round … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, Evolution, Public Schools, Religion, Religious Right, Science, Texas
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Mariann Wizard : ‘I Have No Nostalgia for the 60s’
Updated July 30, 2008 Sixties anti-war demonstration in Austin.‘We glimpsed, briefly, the power people can wield when mutual interests are clarified by adversity’By Mariann Wizard / The Rag Blog / July 29, 2008 “When we attacked the Moncada, none of … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, New Left, Sixties, Social Action, Social Change, Texas, The Left, The Movement
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makingpeace : Netroots in Fertile Ground
T-Shirt Humor.The Rag Blog’s Dreyer and Organic Consumers’ CumminsBy makingpeace / July 28, 2008 Following another computer crash and a friend’s valiant attempt to fix it, we headed out yesterday to buy a new machine. Now we’re getting used to … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Blogging, Blogosphere, Internet, Netroots Nation, Sixties, Social Action, Texas, The Rag, The Rag Blog
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David Zeiger : Did the GI Movement End the Vietnam War?
Updated July 26, 2008 G.I. dissenters in David Zeiger’s documentary “Sir! No Sir!”. Photo courtesy of Displaced Fillms.And What is the real legacy of the GI Coffeehouses?By David Zeiger / The Rag Blog / July 25, 2008 David Zeiger is … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-War GIs, GI's, New Left, SDS, Sixties, Texas, The Movement, Vietnam
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