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Shooting ourselves in the foot
11/14/2009 11:22 AM

"Fish and visitors stink after three days," said Benjamin Franklin, but some public officials in Texas are even more fastidious.

Another TARP: Trial Attorney Relief Program
11/7/2009 7:10 AM
The Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) was touted as a solution to the subprime mortgage crisis and a way to stabilize our economy.
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Judge fines and jails grandstander
10/31/2009 4:19 PM
"Incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial!" That's what District Attorney Hamilton Burger would exclaim whenever Perry Mason resorted to grandstanding legal tactics.
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More global warming facts needed
10/24/2009 3:33 PM
Public Citizen, the self-appointed environmental watchdog group, filed suit this month against the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), seeking to force it to regulate carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gas emissions.
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Texans know tort reform works
10/17/2009 10:16 PM
All educated Americans are familiar with the concept of checks and balances.
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Let's make a deal(ership)
10/10/2009 6:28 PM
Is a car dealership responsible for an alleged manufacturing defect?
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Anguish management
10/3/2009 7:32 AM
Mental anguish isn't worth what it used to be.
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Truth in East Texas
9/26/2009 10:13 PM
Kids say the darndest things. And so do adults. All's that's lacking is innocence.

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A bad idea whose time hasn't come
9/19/2009 9:26 AM
It seemed like a sleazy match from the onset - a Web site that promised to connect litigious clients with trial lawyers looking for jackpot justice.
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The Land of the Fee
9/12/2009 3:00 PM
"The one great principle of the English law," Charles Dickens wrote in his 1853 novel Bleak House, "is to make business for itself.
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The tale of Warren Todd Hoeffner
9/5/2009 10:51 AM
"Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives."
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