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Pirate Under Attack. Avast, Ye Swabs!

If Texas Tech fires Leach, there will be a mushroom cloud over Lubbock for thousands of miles and a likely revolt of Tech fans, alums, and former players.
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You Aren’t Here

A lack of reverence for the Alamo’s sacred battleground has turned much of the iconic site into a place no one remembers.
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His Town

When Marty Rathbun became an outspoken defector from the Church of Scientology, a group of filmmakers began to disrupt life in his adopted hometown. But they weren’t counting on the response of his neighbors.
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Still Life

Thirty-five years ago Dallas—and the country—was gripped by the tragic story of John McClamrock, a high school football player paralyzed during a violent tackle. But after the newspapers moved on, another story was quietly unfolding, one of courage, perseverance, and a mother’s fierce love.
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Across The Line

According to the district attorney in Smith County, this building was the site of the most horrific child sex ring in Texas history. Three of the adults convicted of running it have already been sentenced to life in prison. There’s just one problem: The DA in neighboring Wood County, where the building is located, says nothing happened here at all.
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Runway or Another

From her hometown of Lake Jackson to the Big Apple, Kalyn Hemphill, the winner of Models of the Runway, takes it all in stride.
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Dear Yankee

Eight things you ought to know before you start writing stories about Rick Perry. You’re welcome.
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The 50 Greatest Hamburgers In Texas

A gastro-scientific inquiry into the finest burgers in the state that invented the burger, including the Toro (#4), the Stodg (#6), the Miss Hattie (#28), and, in our top slot, a miracle of meat served only on Sundays. No wonder they call it the Lord’s day.
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Innocence Lost

Since August 23, 1992, Anthony Graves has been behind bars for the gruesome murder of a family in Somerville. There was no clear motive, no physical evidence connecting him to the crime, and the only witness against him recanted, declaring again and again before his death, in 2000, that Graves didn’t do it. If he didn’t, the truth will come out. Won’t it?
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Right Place, Right Time

An exquisite sense of timing—and a good deal of luck—has helped transform Rick Perry from an unknown Democratic state legislator into a swaggering Republican who’s spent more years in the Governor’s Mansion than anyone in Texas history. Is it enough to carry him past Kay Bailey Hutchison and all the way to the White House?
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Memo to Kay

Even someone who supports the death penalty, as you do, can and should be up in arms over the Cameron Willingham case.

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Monday, October 19th, 2009, 10:07 am
tsumbra says:
"Ricky’s Full of Shift" et al. http://poetictimes.com/poem/New/Ricky’s_Full_of_Shift.html?id=50618

Thursday, October 15th, 2009, 4:24 pm
Stephanie says:
"Affidavits dispute claims of innocence"- read the real story here. http://www.corsicanadailysun.com/local/local_story_287232742.html

Thursday, October 15th, 2009, 4:22 pm
Stephanie says:

Read what actual law enforcement officers have gathered! Multiple courts all heard this evidence and upheld his conviction. Scientist and reporters don’t run the courts in this country - judges and juries do!

Thursday, October 15th, 2009, 8:27 am
popdaddy says:

What amazes me is how someone's politics seems to color their opinion - but what else can it do. Can this be the only possible outcome? It is just not possible for the man to be guilty? And what about his kids? Where is the outcry for them? It is "so" old fashioned" to want to see justice done. I’m sure I will be excoriated but I am still glad to be living in Texas.

Sunday, October 11th, 2009, 9:09 am
Shades says:
It’s obvious Perry now realizes he executed an innocent man. If he truly believed otherwise, he would not be throwing up road blocks every step of the way. He knew what a stink replacing these three people would cause, yet it was worth it to him to stop the investigation and now he’s refusing to release FOIA documents that would show whether he even bothered to read the fax he received an hour before the execution outlining the flawed pseudoscience used to convict the innocent man.

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009, 1:02 am
Scott Cobb says:
http://camerontoddwillingham.com/?page_id=6 Sign the petition to Governor Rick Perry and the State of Texas to acknowledge that the fire in the Cameron Todd Willingham case was not arson, therefore no crime was committed and on February 17, 2004, Texas executed an innocent man.

Monday, October 5th, 2009, 2:26 pm
Bummed says:
Unfortunately most Texans don’t give a shit.

Friday, October 2nd, 2009, 9:18 am
tsumbra says:
Retribution Against Truth? Retribution against truth? Invalidate findings of a noted forensic sleuth? Cover-up the execution of an innocent man? Key to this most pathetic, immoral political plan? Yank from public view? Panel in only facts seeking to pursue? Exploit three daughters’ arson deaths? Railroaded Father proclaimed his innocence until his dying breaths? Ricky fears the unbiased expert’s report? Yearning to know why verity he does not support?

Friday, October 2nd, 2009, 9:01 am
TexasRed says:
This is brilliant! When I first read the article in the New Yorker, I was shocked and dismayed. First, that the investigation and trial seemed very slip shod. Second, that I hadn’t seen anything about it in any of the Texas publications I frequent. I no longer live in our great state and some days it gets harder and harder to admit I am from there.

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