Grits for Breakfast (Free subscription) | yesterday
Just to update a topic Grits has been tracking recently, the McLennan County Commissioners voted against privatizing their local jail . See prior Grits posts: Commissioner wants off jail privatization train What options besides jail building for Waco? A couple of Jillls with their eyes on a couple of bills Costs of privatization debated in Waco Deputies oppose Waco jail privatization plans
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Why Obama is a series of guest essays by musicians and authors, where they share their support for Democratic United States presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama and offer arguments why he needs to be elected president of the United...
Burnt Orange Report (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
In June, the Waco Tribune-Herald editorial board called the Texas Two-Step hybrid primary-caucus "undemocratic." Now, the Dallas Morning-News editorial board is coming out against the Two-Step, saying that the "confusing" system is "beyond salvaging." The confusion that reigned during the March 4 Democratic primary continues to reverberate across Texas. A conference at Southern Methodist University...
One Citizen Speaking... (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Unfortunately, over the past few Administrations, the people seem to not only have less faith in their political leaders, both the Administration and Congress, but there is a giant shadow cast upon the government’s law enforcement investigators. Ruby Ridge –...
Southwest Farm Press RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
As it made landfall north of Galveston Aug. 5, Tropical Storm Edouard brought rain to many southeastern counties.
GraniteGrok (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
.. “Child Abuse by Misinformation”By Donna GarnerBetween us, my husband and I have spent over 69 years as classroom teachers. We have two children and five grandchildren. Our lives have been centered around loving and caring for children, and we have...
Busted Coverage (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Play “Spot The Hot Mom” during ESPN Little League coverage Today’s Can’t Miss: ‘Tis the season to watch the Little League coverage searching for the hot baseball moms in the crowd rooting on little Timmy. Today we get Texas vs. Louisiana. Expect some rich, oil money spoiled housewives to be in the stands. You’ve been [...]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
Up for Grabs: Sun Microsystems Servers and Other Related Equipment WEARE, N.H., Aug 6 /PRNewswire/ -- University students, teachers and nonprofit organizations are encouraged to apply for donated Sun Microsystems servers and related equipment as part of Acclinet Corp.'s technology grant program. Acclinet, a New Hampshire-based reseller of servers, workstations and related equipment, will give donated...
Pan Dulce (Free subscription) | yesterday
I just received some great news from Ronne Rock, Director of Marketing for Buckner International. Here it is…Buckner’s Shoes for Orphan Souls (SOS) is the featured ministry on 400 stations nationwide through the KLOVE Network. You can see our ad...
Hang Right Politics (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
A few days ago on a Lucianne thread I read a comment that FBI head Mueller made after the SCOTUS overturned the gun ban. One poster revealed that the head of our FBI does not believe citizens should have the right to weaponry for self-defense. Several other posters were astonished at the remark, said that [...]
西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
I had a white friend who used to say that, and I understand what he meant reading this piece by Dylan Waco — Authentic Black Conservatism . Here's a stunner, which is absolutely true: The truth is that in America today there are two different movements that have roots in the principled conservatism of small government, community control, family values and traditional culture. One of them is the almost...
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
The following outrageous paragraph appeared in the Trib's story about the arrest of Morgan Jones, who was charged with selling an assault rifle to an undercover agent and is alleged by law enforcement officials to be "a major player in a militia movement whose shadowy members have a "propensity toward violence."
Pro-Life News (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Waco, TX -- A Planned Parenthood clinic and a state health office in Mexia are temporarily closed because the building they were located in has been deemed unsafe. Several buildings downtown, where the office was located, have seen significant structural...
Around the Corner v2 - MGuhlin.net (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Now see. If my family and I had not stayed in SA after NECC, then you would have missed it. My wife and son went one day (while I slept recovering from NECC induced allergies) and then we all three went the next day. You would have missed it by five folks. When we were there, we watched a duckling run from two gators. It had somehow gotten into the wrong tank, and the gators were stalking it.
UrbanGrounds (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
You do know that Mr. Clark was chased out of the military, right? That he was fired as a NATO commander because of matters of character and integrity? That he has been completely discredited as a military man? That he was given a vote of "no faith" by the very men that he was supposed to lead?
