Let's allow Mr. Robinson to explain: Unfortunately, we are saddled with a communist sympathizer in the White House. I don't know whether or not he's an actual card carrying commie, but he's definitely an America-hating, anti-capitalist Marxist leftist who thinks communism is the way to go. Now I rem...

How do you get what’s left of the Republican Party to destroy itself? It sure helps to have some self-obsessed drug-addicted sociopath like Rush Limbaugh as “leader� of the doomed wingnuts! At some point in January, the same Obama strategists who outmaneuvered the Clinton Machine and American ...

Celebrating the new spring month of March with Texas Independence Day and some blustery cool weather, the Texas Progressive Alliance bloggers round up last week's postings for your Monday morning reading. McBlogger takes a look at possibilities for 2010. Bay Area Houston is following a bill to aboli...

Can't add anything to this: When Republicans suffered a disastrous beating in November's election, it would have been fair to assume that things could not get worse for them: the-most-liberal-Senator was to be president, Nancy-Pelosi-from-San-Francisco was going to lead a massive Democratic majority...

Because Kay Bailey Perjury Technicality spanks "the longest serving governor in Texas history" like an unruly child. Let's give Harvey Kronberg the chance to shout a little: NEW POLL PUTS KBH AHEAD OF PERRY 56-31 Company uses controversial robo-dialing methodology but notes it was the most accurate ...

I grew up around good ol' boys like him, so I have a pretty good idea just what sort he is. He's making a public ass of himself again. Somebody needs to take him to the wood shed, and until either the leadership of the Texas House, or the voters in his district do, it's left to us little old blogger...

Vince Leibowitz (who wrangles the best of the Texas left-o-sphere each week) notes: "The round-up got drunk at an Oscar party, and I had to chase it up and down the street before one of the dogs finally caught it. Evidently it was upset that the lady from My Cousin Vinny did not win another Academy ...

-- Sean Penn, accepting the Academy award for best actor It was a theme Oscar voters embraced through the evening with other key awards honoring films fostering broader understanding and compassion. Sean Penn won his second best-actor Oscar, this one for playing slain gay-rights pioneer Harvey Milk ...

You may recall that Vermont ice cream czars Ben (Cohen) and Jerry (Greenfield) introduced a brand following the election of Barack Obama called "Yes Pecan!". With another confectionary hit on their hands, they decided to solicit suggestions for an ice cream flavor that would commemorate the Bush adm...

-- Sean Delonas, the cartoonist from the New York Post who drew the cartoon that sparked so much outrage, has a long pattern of over-the-top offensiveness more suitable to Hustler Magazine ... or maybe the Washington Moonie Times. -- TIME has a 25 Best Blogs Index, along with some overrated ones. Th...