PolitiFact says four isn’t half of eight
By Jon Cassidy | Watchdog.org
The jerks at PolitiFact are forever trying to refute the truth.
There’s no way to do this, of course, so they resort to tricks. Rather than flail against unassailable fact, they’ll insist that the fact in question was presented in a misleading context.
This context game may be their favorite technique.
If a conservative [...]
Texas school board may end ban on felons, drug dealers
By Jon Cassidy | Watchdog.org
HOUSTON – A southeast Texas school district is ready to open its doors to felons and drug dealers.
The Beaumont Independent School District has a long list of problems – lawsuits, state investigations, police investigations, criminal contractors and more – but it will address one of them tonight: the hiring of felons and [...]
Veto this! An easy $1 billion from the education budget
Part 4 of 4 in the series Veto This!
By Jon Cassidy | Watchdog.org
HOUSTON — Polls show that public education is the area people would most like the Legislature to protect, yet even in this sensitive area there are savings to be had, even with a tool as blunt and indiscriminate as a line-item veto.
My favorite idea [...]
Veto this! Three Texas agenices that need the axe
By Jon Cassidy | Watchdog.org
Gov. Rick Perry has until Sunday to decide which line items in the budget he might want to veto. We’re offering suggestions.
Read More →Budget-writer hits Texas think tank with low blow
Part 2 of 4 in the series Veto This!
By Jon Cassidy | Watchdog.org
HOUSTON — Hannah Arendt once said that the great achievement of Stalinism was to replace the habit of argument and dispute among intellectuals with the inquisitorial questioning of motive.
At least that’s how Christopher Hitchens describes it in his memoirs. I haven’t seen the original [...]
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