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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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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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The Great Campaigner

Before setting his sights on the White House, Rick Perry won ten straight contested elections, defeating, among others, a chicken farmer, several multimillionaires, and a sitting United States senator. How does he keep winning? We asked his past opponents what it’s like to run against . . .

9 comments

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011, 1:44 pm
Steve says:
Perry is very aggressive.

Thursday, August 18th, 2011, 9:18 am
T S Umbra says:
The ’E’ is for ’error’! "Mange on the Mane?" et al. http://www.voicesnet.org/displayonepoemid=209124

Monday, August 15th, 2011, 4:03 pm
Mark P. Jones says:
Great piece. A few electoral related corrections (I believe) though. 1. Perry has won 11 contested elections, not 10. The 1990 Republican Primary for Agriculture Commissioner is absent from the article. Perry won that race after being just barely (Perry won 47%) forced into a second round against Richard McIver, who he trounced in the April runoff. 2. Kenneth Neighbours won 22% of the vote in the 1984 Democratic Primary, not 10%. There was a third candidate who won 19%. Perry won the race with 59%. 3. Hailey won 24% of the vote in the 1986 Democratic Primary, not 15%.

Monday, August 15th, 2011, 3:34 pm
Mike H says:
You forgot to mention that several close aids to Mr Ethical High Minded Progress Hightower’s were under indictment for a bribery scheme to funnel money in Hightower’s re-election campaign.

Monday, August 15th, 2011, 2:40 pm
Jeff says:
What catmman said...anybody who considers their candidate to be sent by God or like God is a little scary. However, like Obama Rick Perry IS a career politician.

Monday, August 15th, 2011, 2:33 pm
Catmman says:
We’ve had enough messianic imagery and comparisons to deity with President Obama. Don’t start it with Governor Perry.

Monday, August 15th, 2011, 11:34 am
JoeKidd says:
Rick Perry: "We will not sit back and accept our current misery...because a great country requires a better direction...because a renewed nation requires a new president. That’s why, with faith in God, the support of my family, and an unwavering belief in the goodness of America, I am a candidate for President of the United States."

Sunday, August 14th, 2011, 1:04 pm
says:
Ann Richards is not the last Democrat to win state wide. Dan Morales won AG in 1994.

Sunday, August 14th, 2011, 11:52 am
T S Umbra says:
One clue as to what a Perry ’maladministration’ would be like? "Texas Fixes Whatz Rong with Amurican Hiztory Textbooks" et al. http://www.voicesnet.org/displayonepoem.aspx?poemid=174456

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