AUSTIN, Texas -- The people of Texas should be gearing up to pitch a fit
come January.
They want us to pay for more prisons. MORE prisons. We just finished the biggest prison-spending spree in history. Starting in 1991, we spent...
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29 August 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas Health Commissioner Reyn Archer. Ooops.
Maybe we should just make that a standing headline. As you know, Archer, Gov. W. Bush's pick for the job, has this tendency to put his foot in it. He's often disastrously...
24 August 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- In one week and two days, I will be finished with nine
months of treatment for cancer. First they poison you; then they mutilate
you; then they burn you. I've had more fun. And when it's almost over,
you're so glad that...
24 August 2000
Isn't the two-party system wonderful? It really works!
Every day, we hear plenty of opinions. Top Democrats and Republicans stay "on message," and usually the nation's major news outlets are in sync. The media landscape remains...
22 August 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- Humanizing Al Gore is the topic du jour, so let me
contribute my mite.
In the summer of '92, the Clintons and Gores were on a bus trip in East Texas having a whale of time. As they rolled through the small towns, when...
20 August 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- Yup, Al Gore wrote his own speech, all right. Don't you
love the instant cliches? "He did what he had to do."
The conventional wisdom decided not to be knocked out of the park by it (mandatory cliche) but agreed that...
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