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In the last few days I read, with interest, two items running on highly respected, national conservative blogs. First, Brandon Darby and Bob Price reported on Breitbart.com on the failed lawsuit of Joe Pool, Jr., against conservative incumbent Texas Supreme Court Justice Jeff Brown. The full story has a lot of good information in it, but the lede really says it all: Republican Joe Pool, Jr. is seeking election to the Texas Supreme Court; however, instead of campaigning, he went to the courts seeking to have his Republican opponent removed as a choice for Texas voters on the ballot. The...

Regular contributor Royal Masset has a unique take on President Bush and a congress controlled by Democrats The most influential man in Washington in the coming weeks will never be seen on cable TV news channels. His name will not be mentioned on This Week or by Chris Matthews or even Tim Russert. He will never write a tell all book. Yet this person’s advice will direct President Bush as he makes dramatic changes in his leadership style and enters a new era of bipartisanship. His name is Bob Bullock. Although he died in 1999, the invisible arm of Bullock...

Ronnie Earle is the most corrupt politician in Texas (I don't know about other states, but District Attorneys are politicians here) and is well-known for using his political agenda to prosecute people. Not only did he indict Kay Bailey Hutchison within days after she won her Senate seat (the first such seat occupied by a Republican since 1875), but he also "investigated" or indicted Democrats who managed to get on his wrong side, like Gib Lewis, who once ran against Earle for office, and Bob Bullock, the Democrat political mentor of President Bush. In the Hutchison case, she demanded a jury...

Commentary: Dave McNeely Comptrollers count office as rung up Thursday, April 22, 2004 The three Texas comptrollers since 1975 have wanted to be governor. Carole Keeton Strayhorn is no exception. The first two — the late Bob Bullock and John Sharp, both Democrats — eventually settled for a run at lieutenant governor. Bullock won; Sharp didn't. Strayhorn, one loud grandma, has yet to announce her plans. Though she's a Republican like Gov. Rick Perry, Strayhorn has been slapping Perry every time he turns around. She says he: is an ineffective leader, should put more money into the Children's Health Insurance...

Baylor University player Patrick Dennehy was slain after he decided to expose improprieties in the school's basketball program, says a lawsuit filed here Friday by his biological father. Athletic department officials and university officials not associated directly with the athletic program would not listen to his concerns, the suit said. "Patrick determined it would be up to him to expose the improprieties ... to stop what was going on," said the state district court suit filed by Patrick Dennehy Sr., 44, of Seattle. "Shortly after making that decision, Patrick became the target of violent threats against his person and soon...