Texoblogosphere: Week of January 25th

The Texas Progressive Alliance hopes everyone stays safe in the snow as it brings you this week's roundup. Off the Kuff interviewed Harris County Sheriff candidates Ed Gonzalez and Jeff Stauber. SocraticGadfly questions the mainstream media narrative that the GOP presidential race is down to a Trump-Cruz two person event with this … Continue Reading ››

SCOTUS to Hear Case, Hopefully Settle ‘Immigration Action’ Stalemate

By this point in the Obama Presidency, one thing is clear... the legacy of our nation's 44th President is not being debated in the halls Congress, but in the halls of our nation's highest courts.  Such was the case with the President's landmark legislative achievement-- the 2010 Affordable Care Act, and again the case in … Continue Reading ››

MLK’s Dream in 2016

On this 2016 commemoration day for the Reverend Marting Luther King Jr., an assessment of his Dream can be most clearly found in a voice from the past. The poem Harlem by Langston Hughes...   What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like … Continue Reading ››