Unca Darrell

MAY 30 / (Bumped) How to vote against President Obama

First, vote in the Democratic primary.

Second . . .  

MAY 29 (Bumped) Tipps's sheet for Harris County judicial races

I'M GLAD we vote for our judges in Texas, but let's face it: Harris County has too many judicial races to keep up with. Few of us have the time or resources to do our own research.

Enter Stephen G. Tipps, an attorney at Baker Botts. He studies the races closely and write the best recommendations I know. With his permission, I am linking to his recommendations for the May GOP and Democratic judicial primaries. 

MAY 28 / Failed coverage at . . .

. . . the Houston Chronicle.

Today our locals did a nice preview of Tuesday's Texas presidential primaries. 

Wait! Silly me. Make that . . .  

MAY 25 / The Houston Chronicle is a righteous critic . . .

. . . of Governor Rick Perry's slush fund for crony capitalism, the Texas Enterprise Fund, at least when the slush goes to his friends. But not . . .   

MAY 23 / Why won't David Dewhurst sit down with the Clever Ones?

THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE seems genuinely hurt that GOP Senate candidate David Dewhurst, like that rascal Rick Perry back in 2010, has declined an invitation to share three cups of tea with the editorial board. And genuinely confused about why he won't.  

It's not that complicated, fellas. Mr. Dewhurst sent his regrets because . . .  

MAY 22 / (Updated) Liveblogging the Arkansas Democratic primary

Saturday, May 26

With 75 of 75 counties complete, the final results are . . .

MAY 15 / Even though Keith Russell Judd is . . .

. . . a resident of the Lone Star State, a Democrat, and a man who sees a president when he looks in the mirror, he won't win delegates for the presidential nomination in the May 29 Texas Democratic Party primary. This despite Mr. Judd's admirable showing in the May 8 West Virginia Democratic primary, where he picked up 57,081 votes, 42.73 percent, against some guy named . . .  

MAY 10 / At last, a good editorial about the EPA's crucifixion complex

UNFORTUNATELY, it was in another liberal newspaper, not our very own Houston Chronicle.

Maybe Al Armendariz -- until Monday, one of the Environmental Protection Agency's top administrators -- didn't mean his comments to sound quite how they did. But they didn't sound good. In a 2010 speech . . . Mr. Armendariz compared his "philosophy of enforcement" to ancient Roman soldiers' practice of crucifying random victims in a recently conquered territory. 

APRIL 21 / "Look to it, you Texans of today . . . ."

A bare account from The Handbook of Texas (reparagraphed) of San Jacinto, the battle that won Texas independence this day 176 years ago:

APRIL 9 / Another stinging rebuke for the law firm of . . .

. . . Sweeney, Stephenson, O'Laughlin, Cohen, Wilburn, Jetton, Newkirk, Langworthy, Fleck & Gray (Lisa!)