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College Tuition Fight Surges in Texas - WSJ.com

The national debate over the cost of a college degree is roiling the University of Texas's flagship campus, where the school's president has been at odds with board members and with Gov. Rick Perry over the wisdom of raising tuition. The dispute has reached such a point that t …

This is no way to run an athletics program, A&M

The storm ended Tuesday when the 66-year-old administrator stepped down after being totally emasculated and stripped of all power by a Machiavellian school president and an overstepping board of regents that decided to micromanage college athletics, and no longer trusted the de …

Ron Paul raining on Mitt Romney's parade

Ron Paul Raining on Romey's Parade - Mitt Romney may be getting all the splashy headlines in his march toward the August Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., but fellow Republican Ron Paul has been steadily fundraising, visiting primary states, picking up delegates an …

Alcoholidays In America: ¡Viva El Tequila Julep! : NPR

America is not a two-party country — it's a multiparty extravaganza. We turn every possible pause from work into a party: New Year's Day, the Super Bowl, Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day, Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Ne …

Board of Regents votes to bring medical school to UT Austin | kvue.com Austin

With an unanimous vote, it was decided that Austin will be the home to a new UT medical school.

More Than One-Third Of All U.S. Executions Since 1976 Took Place In Texas

The Economist maps out every American execution since 1976, when the Supreme Court announced the modern constitutional regime governing death penalty cases after effectively suspending all executions nationwide for four years.

Lou Engle: No deaths in Texas from recent tornadoes thanks to pro-life marchers

Lou Engle has said that God is sending tornados, including the storm that struck Joplin, Missouri, as punishment to America for legalizing abortion. But apparently a march of women from Houston to Dallas as part of The Esther Call, which focused on overturning Roe v. Wade, prev …

Texas attacks anti-death penalty charity, comparing it to prison gangs and accusing it of fomenting violence

Texas, America's most prolific practitioner of the death penalty, has launched an extraordinary attack on the international anti-death penalty charity Reprieve, accusing it of intimidating and harassing drug companies and likening the group to violent prison gangs responsible f …

Puttin' My Money Where My Big Mouth Is...

This will be short and...well, it may not be sweet,  but it will be the truth !!! I have just made a $100 campaign contribution to President Obama,  and I am damned proud to do so.  After watching the far wrong-wingers tear America apart these last few years,& …

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Texas already has health care 'death panels' - and guess who presided over the passing of the law that empowered them

If all you know about healthcare "death panels" is what you heard on a talk show, then you must think the feds will pull the plug on patients. News bulletin: Texas already has death panels. A Houston man's life was ended last week. A leukemia patient identified only as Willi …

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