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Just about the only folks having a good time with the indictment (http://www.scribd.com/doc/236936143/Rick-Perry-Indictment) of Texas governor Rick Perry are members of the national media and folks who really don’t understand Texans or politics. If you had more important things on your mind the past few days, like, say, ethnic cleansing in Iraq, hooligans running amuck in Missouri, or making this month’s mortgage payment, you may have missed the latest melodrama out of the Lone Star State. Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lemberg, a Democrat, (http://www.co.travis.tx.us/district_attorney) needed several months and who knows how many thousands of dollars to convince a grand...

Video of Lemberg's arrest as reported by KXAN.

Europa: Ukrainian city wants to reclaim its past Richard Bernstein International Herald Tribune THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2005 LVIV, Ukraine Beautiful but poor is a common shorthand description of this city of 800,000 people in western Ukraine, and it takes only a few hours here to sense the accuracy of the phrase. Lviv, which was once as European as the Austro-Hungarian Empire and wishes to be part of Europe again, is not in Europe, at least not as defined by the border of the European Union, though it is a mere 70 kilometers from here. This is the periphery. Here is...

Chances to resolve dispute over historic Polish cemetery in Lviv 2005-04-12, 10:45 Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko promised to resolve the controversy over the restoration of a Polish cemetery in Lviv. Called the Young Eagles Cemetery, it is a place where Polish youths who defended the then Polish city against Ukrainians in 1918, are buried. For Poles, the cemetery is a symbol of patriotic commitment, while Ukrainians see it as a symbol of oppression. The Lviv city authorities have not agreed to restore the cemetery to its original shape as the Polish side would like to do.