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Here is your next assignment (assignment 2): 2301: Using your email searching skills, do the following: Get comfortable with the way that ...

Note: I will be out of town until Sunday night. I will try to stay on top of my emails, but can't guarantee that. On Monday I will start...

Apparantly there are about 40 of you, but I've heard from maybe five. You need to get in touch--but how would you be able to read this i...

A classic exercise in logical analysis: The Witch Scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail .

Check it out: Voting America . It contains dynamic representation of American election results spannign over a century and a half. Thanks to...

I'm going to throw a monkey wrench into the fallacies assignment. I've asked you to consider whether the messages we hear from and a...

Thanks To Rick Casey for my 15 seconds of fame. Professor worries TAKS test breeds ignorant voters . The comments are my favorite part. Her...

The good news is that traffic fatalities haven't been this low in almost 50 years : Experts who have studied motor vehicle fatality tren...

After talking to a couple of you, I'm worried that this exercise might turn into a chance to whine about candidates you don]t like. That...

The New York Times provides an overview of Barack Obama's economic plans . Save this for when we discuss the contemporary state of ide...

If you are not sure how to start on the first assignment, here are a few links that should help search for arguments that may or may not be ...

From today's Washington Post , word of administrative changes in how the Endangered Species Act will be implemented: The Bush administr...

The Washinton Times indicates that it just might be . The story suggests that race may play a factor in a shift away from Obama. State Repub...

If you want to know why River Oaks does as well as it does, it helps to understand just how much money flows from that neighborhood into th...

From today's NYT : ...Mr. McCain is called the White Tornado by some people who have worked for him over the years. Throughout his presi...

Behind most every regulation lies a tragedy. Today's Chron tells us that the bus crash in Sherman (17 dead at this moment) is likely t...

This is a phrase I picked up from a Samantha Power essay on foreign policy. Presumably it refers to an ear when an enemy does not exist and ...

Click here for comments on a preliminary version of the Democrat's 2008 platform , and here for background information on the platform w...

Michael Granof , an accounting professor at the University of Texas writing in the New York Times, discusses the budgetary tricks that state...

Here are a few q and a's in the New Republic which touch on how President Bush and VP Cheney used information in deciding whether and h...

Yes, because it was during a civil war and he claimed it to fall under his war powers : The Civil War transformed Lincoln from a president i...

Stuart Taylor, writing for Newsweek says so : President George W. Bush ought to pardon any official from cabinet secretary on down who mig...

A great recent article in Salon outlines Jesse Helms' influence on politics . He gave the Southern oligarchy a quasi-populist face which...

Since we're covering the executive, and are coming to terms with the notion of an executive pardon, here are some recent news items on t...

Not yet. A privately funded rocket blew up with three satellites and the ashes of over 200 people, including Star Trek's Scotty , on bo...

According to this study in the Washington Independent , Justice Thomas is the most partisan justice, and Scalia the most activist.

From The New York Times : President Bush’s top advisers cannot ignore subpoenas issued by Congress, a federal judge ruled on Thursday in a c...

Professors, it seems, still tend to be liberal at most campuses, but conservatives exist, and do pretty well for themselves. There is less p...

From The New Republic, a story about Steve Schmidt, post Rove guru : Even in the hyper-competitive world of political media strategists--a l...

Yes there is a unofficial aristocracy in the US of A and one of it's leading figures died recently. From the NYT obituary: Eileen G. Sl...

Outgoing Texas Rep Mike O'Day wants ACC to yield to SanJac and allow them to offer community college classes in the city . Beneath th...

Here's a chunk of text from Slate's Today's Papers about McCain's decision to go negative on Obama : . . . Obama's eff...

From the Wall Street Journal : The White House is expected Thursday to unveil the largest overhaul of intelligence powers in a generation, s...

Federal Judge William Wayne Justice has ruled that the state of Texas is not complying with the requirement, under the Equal Opportunity Act...

Let's hope not : The Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority, which secured more than $500 million in educational loans last year...

Apparently that's one of the things that motivated Jim David Adkisson to fire a shotgun into a Tennessee church . This is one way to de...

The Department of Justice Inspector General issued a report today alleging that the Bush administration deliberately used political and ide...

Apparently there is no such thing. The Marines have successfully kicked out a photographer who has posted images of American war dead on hi...

Does Harris County do a good enough job of registering voters ? That seems to be the underlying question in the top story in today's Ch...

John Culberson , who represents U.S. House District 7, has harsh words for NASA : "We need revolutionary change, a complete restructuri...

Grits for Breakfast has such a great post today I'm going to steal it completely. It has to do with which historical figures would not...

That seems to be the implicit question asked in the following story from the Dallas Morning News . Despite high TAKS test scores, student...

Texas is in the process of figuring out how exactly to implement a law passed last legislative session that allowed school districts to off...

Was Congress' decision to pass amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act , which gave telecom companies immunity from an...

For some time now conservatives have been bemoaning the state of their movement, but they also have an opportunity to rethink the movement a...

The New York Times editorializes on an appellate court decision that may drastically expand the president;s ability to indefinitely curtail...

The Washington Post tells us this morning that this is the dream of liberal activists: Ask some activists on the left the kind of Supreme C...

A New York Times poll confirms that black and white America see the world in substantively different ways. This isn't news, but it does...