Did Dallas, Texas police officer Amber Guyger accidentally park on the wrong floor of her South Side Flats apartment complex and enter Botham Jean's unlocked apartment assuming it was hers? Did Guyger struggle with the lock before...
As primaries for November's mid-term elections happen all over the country, our attentions are again on election integrity. We are all aware by now Russia had an enormous hand in influencing the outcome of 2016. And although...
Ted Cruz speaking at the 2011 Values Voter Summit (image courtesy Gage Skidmore, available under a Creative Commons ShareAlike license)
Ted Cruz went from calling for Republicans to "vote your conscience" at the 2016 GOP Convention to kissing Donald Trump's ring just two months later. Ever since, it seems that he's gone overtime to prove...
On this sacrosanct day on which we celebrate the inimical Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's timeless legacy, it's normal to reflect on the ways in which Dr. King would be disappointed with the current occupant...
Blake Farenthold visiting the Galveston Beach renourishment project (image courtesy U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, available under a Creative Commons-BY license)
Last weekend, as the hot lights turned on the secretive and degrading manner in which sexual harassment is handled on Capitol Hill, we learned that John Conyers wasn't the only congressman to recently used taxpayer...
Blake Farenthold visiting the Galveston Beach renourishment project (image courtesy U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, available under a Creative Commons-BY license)
Earlier this month, we learned about the secretive and degrading way in which sexual harassment is handled on Capitol Hill. Staffers who claim to have been harassed by lawmakers have to go through a tedious...
First Baptist Church of Sunderland Springs (image courtesy church Facebook)
On November 5, 26 people were brutally gunned down at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. It is now clear beyond all doubt that this tragedy was completely preventable. The gunman, Devin Kelley, had been...
Notorious conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones, leveraged a double-edged sword against Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas). Utilizing his media platform, Infowars, Jones released a video of Barton masturbating. The video followed TMZ's release of a sexually natured...
Tessa Brennaman, first wife of the Texas church shooter (screenshot courtesy Inside Edition via CBS News)
Most of the questions about last week's grisly shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas center around how the gunman was even able to get his hands on a gun in the first place....
First Baptist Church of Sunderland Springs (image courtesy church Facebook)
When a national tragedy happens, a lot of things have become as certain as death and taxes. Sadly, one of those things is the religious right trying to blame tragedies on something liberals have done...
First Baptist Church of Sunderland Springs (image courtesy church Facebook)
On Monday night, we learned beyond any doubt that Sunday's horrific shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas was completely preventable. The gunman, Devin Patrick Kelley, had been court-martialed in 2012 for assaulting his...
First Baptist Church of Sunderland Springs (image courtesy church Facebook)
On Sunday morning, just as the morning service at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas was getting underway, a black-clad gunman walked in armed with an AR-15 clone and started shooting. He wound up...
26 people are dead in Sutherland Springs, Texas, the result of a mass shooting at a Baptist church, but a Fox News host said Monday morning that church was the best place to be killed...
Wayne LaPierre at a conference in Orlando (image courtesy Gage Skidmore, available under a Creative Commons BY-SA license)
Whenever a mass shooting occurs, one thing that is almost as certain as death and taxes is that the National Rifle Association will open its collective mouth and jam its collective foot in deep. If...
First Baptist Church of Sunderland Springs (image courtesy church Facebook)
For the second time in two months, this nation has been rocked by a mass shooting. And for the second time in two months, attempts to identify the gunman have wound up doing more harm...
The state of Texas is promising residents of Dickinson funds to help them recover from the disastrous effects of last month's hurricane Harvey. But there's a caveat. In exchange for relief, residents must vow never to speak out...
The most long-lasting damage which will be done by President Trump isn't from any of his executive orders, tweets, or ignorant speeches. It will probably be from the people he's nominating to the federal judiciary. Take...
Music star Beyoncé Knowles, who happens to have been born in Houston, Texas, said this week that the two devastating hurricanes that have hit the United States--Harvey and Irma--are a direct result of climate change, commenting: "The...
As residents of both Texas and Florida attempt to rebuild their lives after the damage inflicted by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, President Trump thought it would be the perfect time to start urging Congress to...
First came the dismissal, "I'm not a scientist." Now, though, as the extreme weather scientists have been predicting for decades becomes a reality, the excuse from the Right is shifting to, "Let's not be insensitive to the hurricane...