[Michael Goldsberry]

"I hope we in Houston aren't busing in New Orleans' problems."

If we are, looting won't last long here.

You don't mess with Texas.

[Flyer]

I live close enough to the Astrodome that is a real concern for me.

[hummingbird]

You don't mess with Texas.

LOL - CC in Texas...nice homepage, Leapfrog.

[rdl6989]

Habeas corpus was suspended on April 27, 1861 during the American Civil War by President Lincoln in Maryland and parts of midwestern states, including southern Indiana. He did so in response to riots, local militia actions and the threat that the Southern slave state of Maryland would secede from the Union leaving the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., in the south. He was also motivated by requests by generals to set up military courts to rein in "Copperheads" or Peace Democrats, and those in the Union who supported the Confederate cause. His action was challenged in court and overturned by the U.S. Circuit Court in Maryland (led by Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney) in Ex Parte Merryman, 17 F. Cas. 144 (C.C.D. Md. 1861). Lincoln ignored Taney's order.

What would Honest Abe say if he was here today? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeus_corpus#Suspension_during_the_Civil_War_and_Reconstruction