Jason Stanford

Disaster relief brings Lone Star hypocrites
04/23/2013 - 5:00pm
Jason Stanford

As of this writing, we know the fertilizer explosion in West, Texas killed at least 14 residents and injured 200 others with many still missing. "Your heart weeps for their suffering," said Sen. Ted Cruz, who toured the disaster area on Friday with Sen. John Cornyn. It feels wrong to talk politics when they're still looking for bodies, but a respectful silence would only reward Cruz and Cornyn...

Ted Cruz: Is he a pro- stimulus Republican?
03/12/2013 - 5:00pm
When Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks to the Conservative Political Action Conference next week in Washington, it won't be a keynote, it'll be a coronation. Sick of sellouts, movement...
State’s top ‘bidness’ lobbyist getting testy
03/10/2013 - 1:00pm
The Texas legislature is in session, which makes some of us miss the late Molly Ivins so badly it hurts. Ivins made a career out of mocking local politicians by quoting them and...
Forget assault rifles; worry about hammers
03/05/2013 - 6:00pm
I love Texas because of special snowflakes such as Louie Gohmert. In more urbane states where research universities vastly outnumber NFL teams, Gohmert would stick to writing...
Budget tale that would make Uncle Joe proud
01/30/2013 - 5:00pm
Whenever a Texas Republican makes the national news for saying that "ping-pongs are more dangerous than guns", for alerting Anderson Cooper to the danger posed by "terror babies...
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