Texas Legislative Council

Texas Trifecta: Control of Presidency, Congress and Courts May Be at Stake in Redistricting Fight

For Republicans concerned that a lengthy primary could hurt their chances against Obama in 2012, the biggest worry may not be Iowa or New Hampshire. In Texas, a fight over the legality of a redistricting plan is threatening to push the state’s primary from March 6 all the way to May 29, potentially enabling three extra months of expensive and damaging intra-party attacks between GOP candidates. And that's not all that's at stake.

Forget Jobs, War and a Government Shutdown: The U.S. Senate Focuses On Porn

I have been to a lot of U.S. Senate hearings, and I can tell you without a doubt that the best U.S. Senate hearings are the ones where U.S. Senators talk about masturbation. Better than war. Better than taxation. Better than Supreme Court confirmation fights. Senate hearings about masturbation easily top the rest. Back in [...]

Oil, Tar and Feathers

Washington has entered that wacky hyperbolic season again: OMG! The world is falling! The magic is gone! His credibility is shot! And, it turns out, President Obama’s not even competent! Yes, the oil spill sucks. And yes, it’s a giant headache not only for Obama (gee, ya think that offshore drilling expansion was tragically timed?) [...]

Re: Miranda

At a press conference Tuesday afternoon, Attorney General Eric Holder, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, FBI Deputy Director John Pistole and New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly updated reporters on the ongoing investigation into the attempted bombing in Times Square. They said the suspect, Faisal Shahzad, was interviewed by the FBI under the Public Safety Exception [...]