Texas DPS’ Out-of-Control Border Wars

By Cindy Casares, Texas Observer Ever since Gov. Rick Perry tasked the Texas Department of Public Safety with tighter border security during the 2006 election cycle, trigger-happy bureaucrats have been […]

Friday July 20, 1012 In Arizona, “America’s toughest” sheriff on trial over discrimination claims (Reuters): Arizona’s controversial Joe Arpaio, who calls himself America’s toughest sheriff, went on trial Thursday in a […]

By Duke Machado, Voxxi Shortly before midnight, a person went to a microphone in the Fort Worth auditorium and made a motion to end a bitter debate over immigration. And just […]

By Abby Rapoport On a drizzly, gray November day, the First Federated Church in Des Moines looked particularly formidable. The mega-church is a gigantic brick building, a converted high school […]

The rest of the country doesn’t want to be too forward or anything.  It keeps kicking at some invisible pebble on the ground, and it has tried to avoid the […]

By Cindy Casares I can’t believe I’m about to defend Rick Perry, but here goes. This month the Texas governor has taken heat during his Presidential race for his policy […]

Just about everyone I spoke to yesterday asked a variation of the same question: Did you see the Republican debate? What they were asking, really, was: Did you see Mitt […]

By Cindy Casares There’s no doubt the world is in a crazy place right now, and Texas is no exception. It seems we’re entering a whole new era in the […]

Interesting question posed by the Washington Post: With Hispanic support for Obama waning, could Latino vote be up for grabs in 2012? I don’t know if the question was meant […]

A big stink was raised recently about a comment made by Senator Rick Santorum during the Tea Party  presidential debate broadcast on CNN. The senator was on the offensive, joining […]