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US Politics & Gov't News tagged with Texas

Texas Governor Stymieing Panel Probing Flawed Death Penalty Case?
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: government, Texas, Governor, Rick, Perry, cover-up, corruption, dishonesty, elections, politics, death, penalty, abuse, lies, society, law, rights, prison )

Tom
- 52 days ago - tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com
Cameron Todd Willingham insisted upon his innocence after his children died in a fire in their home. Texas Governor Rick Perry and the Board of Pardons and Paroles ignored a fire expert's report that found no evidence of arson and executed him anyway.
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US Returns $2.4M in Stolen Oil Money to Mexico
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: government, US, Mexico, Texas, Oil, stolen money, theft, cover-up, crime, dishonesty, drug cartels )

Dee
- 103 days ago - news.yahoo.com
SAN ANTONIO - Mexico received $2.4 million Tuesday that was forfeited by a U.S. oil importer after the company president admitted knowingly buying and reselling petroleum products stolen from Mexico's oil monopoly.
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Native American Boy Fights Texas School Over Hair Cut
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: abuse, Human rights, Indigenous rights, Native American, religious rights, child, ethics, school, Texas )

Brigitte
- 145 days ago - examiner.com
A Native American boy is fighting a Texas school district for the right to keep his long hair. A small rural school district in Fort Bend County Texas wants to force Adriel Arocha to cut his hair in compliance with the terms of the school district's dress
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Texas May Let Hunters Shoot Pigs From Helicopters - USATODAY.Com
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: animalwelfare, animals, habitat, slaughter, wildanimals, politics, government, Texas )

Nina
- 277 days ago - usatoday.com
Millions of wild pigs weighing up to 300 pounds have been tearing up crops, trampling fences and eating just about anything in their path in Texas.
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Protest Racist Obama Pin Sold By Texas GOP
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: obama, pin, racism, GOP, Texas, election, candidates, republicans )

Rosa
- 523 days ago - go.care2.com
Tell the Texas GOP to apologize for allowing racist Obama pins to be sold at their convention. The presidential election is not an open forum for racist people who, for lack of ideas, have decided to openly attack Obama because of the color of his skin.
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Electibility: Why Can't Obama Win Big States?
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: US, Hillary Clinton, Obama, electibility, PA primary-win, California, New York, Texas, Ohio, Pennyslvania, big states )

ON VACATI
- 579 days ago - cnn.com
With the win, Clinton will pick up 81 of PA's 158 delegates, while Obama won 69. I won that double-digit victory that everybody on TV said I had to win, and the voters of PA made their views known.
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Black Hillary Clinton Supporters Cite Peer Pressure to Back Barack Obama!!
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: USA, Texas, Dallas, Hillary Clinton, Clinton supporters, black Hillary supporters, caucuses, black politicians, black democratic delegates, jeered, discriminataion, harrassment, torture, name-calling, bullying )

ON VACATI
- 582 days ago - dallasnews.com
Lloyd Elam says he supports H.Clinton at his own risk! This has caused an intense peer pressure on black Clinton fans-so much so that voters such as Mr. Elam have been called "playa haters," gullible Uncle Toms or devious traitors & are jeered!
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Sheriff Threatens Reporters With Jail - Yahoo! News
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: texas, local corruption, media, elections )


- 620 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Even the sheriff's threat to local reporters was mild compared with the actions of a Jim Wells deputy sheriff in 1949, who shot and killed radio reporter W.H. "Bill" Mason. (For investigating the ballot box stuffing that got LBJ "elected" in 1948?)
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Harris County DA Resigns Amid Scandal
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Texas, DA, racism, corruption )


- 644 days ago - dallasnews.com
Racist and obscene e-mails were found on his office computer...In his resignation letter, Mr. Rosenthal said he decided to step down in part because his judgment had been affected by a combination of drugs prescribed for him.
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Audio: A Guy Witnesses An Accident
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: vehical accident, little old ladies, Texas )


- 669 days ago - chumfm.com
This was played on a morning radio show. It is an actual recording of a phone conversation. Click to play the audio. (Caution: Have some tissues ready -- you'll laugh so hard, you'll cry!)
15 comments
Bush, Texas at Odds Over Death Case
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: bush, Texas, death penalty, bushadministration, crime, politics, usa )


- 779 days ago - news.yahoo.com
WASHINGTON - To put it bluntly, Texas wants President Bush to get out of the way of the state's plan to execute a Mexican for the brutal killing of two teenage girls. Bush, who presided over 152 executions as governor of Texas, wants to halt the execution
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Texans Turn Against Bush's War
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: texas, warcrimes, americans, bush, bushadministration, congress, constitution, corruption, cover-up, crime, Govtfearmongering, freedoms, lies, impeach, iran, iraq, media, middle-east, military, neocons, pentagon, politics, troops, terrorism, usa )

TW
- 794 days ago - salon.com
As George W. Bush approaches his final year in office saddled with an unpopular war, the shifting winds of public opinion have reached even the wide open spaces of Bush country.
4 comments
LADY BIRD JOHNSON Leaves Activism for the ENVIRONMENT Legacy!
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Lady Bird Johnson, President Johnson, Deaths, Texas, Activist, Environmentalist, First Lady, Wildfflowers, native plants, extinction )

ON VACATI
- 866 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Johnson loved nature & Texas wildflowers, & her devotion to the beauty & usefulness of native plants may well be the former first lady's biggest legacy. Highway Beautification Bill in 1965. The $320 million bill became known as ``The Lady Bird Bill.''
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Texas to Pursue Geothermal Power
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Texas, Geothermal Energy )

Cal
- 1021 days ago - abcnews.go.com
Texas Issues First Lease for Geothermal Energy Exploration and Development Along Gulf Coast
4 comments
   

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