In the Chron: When he was America’s most powerful lobbyist, Jack Abramoff referred to his Native American clients as “monkeys,” “idiots,” and “troglodytes.” He now says he’s sorry for the contempt he showed people who made him a millionaire many times over, but he’s not sorry for what he charged them. In an interview this morning on AM 760 in...

In the Chron: At last night’s Republican presidential debate, Freddie Mac mogul Newt Gingrich took an unpopular position with the base: I do not believe that the people of the United States are going to take people who have been here a quarter century, who have children and grandchildren, who are members of the community, who may have done something 25 years...

In the Chron: Houston’s King Street Patriots / True the Vote yesterday hosted a $100 per plate lunch with Matthew Vadum, who objects to motor voter laws because Registering [poor people] to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals.  It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the...

Rick Perry’s painful debate performance (heh)…Ramiro Fonseca, HISD Dist 3 candidate & target of an insanely bigoted campaign flier joins us in studio…& if a right wing politician paid homage to & honored a fundamentalist, homophobic, racist, anti-Semitic bigot, we’d be all over him. Just because he’s a Democrat...

In the Chron: The Chronicle on Sunday rightly withdrew its endorsement of appalling bigot and HISD District III incumbent Mauel Rodriguez, Jr. A last-minute campaign flier for Rodriguez displays appalling homophobia. The flier urges recipients not just to vote for Rodriguez, but to vote against his opponent, Ramiro Fonseca, because he has been endorsed by...