Kerry in Austin
My 17 year old son and I just got back from hearing Senator Kerry and Congressman Lloyd Doggett speak here in Austin, primarily on children's access to health care. It was great. Kerry did state an...
View ArticleMarijuana Reform in Texas
On April 14th, a Texas House committee unanimously approved a bill, HB 254, restructuring sentences for possession of low amounts of marijuana (under two ounces) in Texas. Fines and drug abuse...
View ArticleTom DeLay and Comedy Central
There is a good summary of the late night coverage (including Comedy Central nad SNL) of DeLay in this morning's Austin American-Statesman:http://www.statesman.com/news/ co...delayjokes.html"Late-night...
View ArticleTexas Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment
I just got back form the Texas Capitol. The bad news is that the GOP dominated Texas House approved sending a constitutional amendment to voters this fall defining marriage as between one man and one...
View ArticleRemembering Kent State
On this date in 1970 four students were killed on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio. I was a high school junior in Memphis at the time, and was profoundly impacted by the Massacre, as were...
View ArticleMontgomery County Public Schools Case
On May 5th Judge Alexander Williams, Jr., (D-Maryland), a Clinton appointee, released his opinion in Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum v. Montgomery County Public Schools, Case AW-05-1194. CPR is...
View ArticlePraying over Hillary's Desk
Harper's May Issue (not available on-line) has an excellent story by Chris Hedges called "Feeling the Hate with the National Religious Broadcasters." In it Hedges quotes Frank Wright, President of the...
View ArticleNebraka Gay Marriage Case, an Analysis
Yesterday Judge Joseph F. Bataillon of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska, sitting in Lincoln, issued his opinion in Citizens for Equal Protection v. Bruning declaring the...
View ArticleMy Son's Testimony on the anti-Gay Marriage Amendment
Many of you know by now that I am an Austin, Texas, lawyer focusing on constitutional law, and that I live in Austin with my 17 year old son who is a college freshman here. Today (May 19, 2005), the...
View ArticleThe Right to Vote
An assault on the Right to Vote by requiring Voter identification was narrowly averted on the floor of the Texas Senate about 1:30 this morning when Democrats used a parliamentary maneuver and a...
View ArticleSenator Cornyn's Growing Irrelevance (w/Poll)
roses suggested I pass along to everyone here a Letter to the Editor I had published in this morning's Austin American-Statesman concerning the recent filibuster compromise:Cornyn loses relevance One...
View ArticleSome Sex and the Medical Marijuana Case (with poll)
During the debate over Texas' anti-Gay Marriage Amendment on the floor of the Texas State Senate late last month, Senator Leticia Van de Putte (D-San Antonio) proposed a radical amendment to the...
View ArticleTom DeLay Snake Attacks Austin Kossacks!
This just in from Austin! As many of you aware, thanks to janet strange, the Austin Kossacks are working hard to make sure the blogging community is an effective and important part of DemFest this...
View ArticleGumbo and Jambalaya
Welcome to the Austin Kos Live Blog of the New Orleans Survivors Gunbo and Jambalaya Friday Evening Gathering from Othniel's Digs. About Twenty Folk who recently relocated to the Austin Convention...
View ArticleA Place to Lay My Head - New Orleans to Austin
Just stopped off for Ruffin to heat up some Gumbo on the way to move into his apartment. Ruffin is excited to be leaving the Austin Convention Center, and to have a place of his own in Austin for now....
View ArticleI'd be so Proud to Vote for any of them.
Just returned from a quick dash out shopping for stocking stuffers here in Austin. In the parking lot I noticed a car with an Obama '08 bumper sticker. The woman who exited the car could have been...
View ArticleThank God for Barney Frank (with poll)
Thank God for Barney Frank.Suck on that Republicans. One of us Gay people you cannot stand is the gatekeeper to your next paycheck.
View ArticleHigh Tech Bigots attack No on 8 Website
The No on 8 website (California) and the No on 2 website (Florida) appear to have come under coordinated attack just as fundraising is closing prior to the election.Homeland Security ought to have...
View ArticleAin't Gonna Study War No More (Poll)
Can you feel the healing wind of Hope?Down by the Riverside, from New Orleans past Memphis, St. Louis and up to Minnesota. From Boston to Charleston. All over the Pacific Coast and through the...
View ArticleGod and Husband of Us All (Poll)
Many of you who have read my posts know me as a Gay Texas Attorney, a father of two (there really are three) sons by adoption (with the grandmother still in Arkansas we are having some serious issues...
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