The message of “Lives of Others”

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Houston's Clear Thinkers

MAY 20 / Credit where due THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE did right by the IRS scandal in an editorial last Thursday. The targeting of conservative groups was Orwellian, the...

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Unca Darrell

Why did Texas news sites not publish the “Turnaround Specialists” school district bill number? Yvonne Larsen From KXAN in San Antonio, let’s put forth some questions. Do Texas news outlets know that in Texas, on BOTH sides of...

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Big Jolly Politics

Electronic privacy roundup: Hating on the drone bill and other downers Here are a few electronic privacy issues that caught my eye:Cell phone triangulation now as accurate as GPSSo much for the idea that...

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Grits for Breakfast

Drug policy, politics and civil liberties A couple of recent drug war items deserve Grits readers' attention.At Texas Monthly, Bill Martin bring us up to speed on the disappointing...

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Grits for Breakfast

Nearly 200 Texas LEOs use license-plate-reader location tracking vendor When George Orwell wrote the novel 1984 he was imagining future totalitarianism dominated by socialist governments. He never considered...

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Grits for Breakfast

MAY 19 / For the grace of God . . . . . . that bring salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say "No" to . . . . . . ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live...

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Unca Darrell

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Houston's Clear Thinkers

The Playlist: The Compromise From the budget bill to a new university in South Texas, a number of big agreements were...

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Texas Tribune

Why Sheila Jackson Lee Interrupted Darrell Issa: Magner v Gallagher Yvonne Larsen As Mandy Nagy noted in her post on the Legal Insurrection blog, on May 15th the House Judiciary Committee (on which the...

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Big Jolly Politics