Quick: Who’s the highest ranking woman in Congress? If you said Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, you’re right. And you’re obviously using things like “facts” to arrive at that conclusion.  Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison apparently has a different method of calculation. Hutchison, who will challenge incumbent Rick Perry for...

Can you hear me now? AUSTIN — Another day, another cell phone found on Texas’ death row. Prison staff conducting a shakedown of the row today found a cell phone in the rectum of convicted murderer Henry Skinner, said Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Michelle Lyons. They first found two SIM cards, or memory cards, in Skinner’s...

The signs are good for Harris County Democrats.  Here’s an email I got today from a well-connected local Dem pol: 314,000 citizens have voted in person at the early voting locations. 45,000 citizens have already returned their mail ballots. That’s a total of almost 360,000 early votes with approximately 28,000 mail in ballots sent out but not...

First, a poll: Harris County voters are on the verge of favoring a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time in 44 years — putting the area out of step with the rest of Texas, according to a Houston Chronicle poll. They gave Barack Obama the edge over Republican John McCain by 7 percentage points this week, with very few undecided or backing...

Sure it’s Texas and there’s no question that John McCain is going to win here.  But damn it felt damn good to do this: As we waited in line, Janice was literally a latte-sipping-liberal Obama voter: Precinct judges gave these out as people exited: Seems a little presumptuous after 2000, but I’ve got my fingers...