For the past two-plus years, the Silk Road has been the go-to place for tech-savvy drug users — and entrepreneurial drug sellers — looking for a safe and anonymous way to get their fix. Weed, cocaine, LSD, heroin, you name it — it could be at your door in a…
It’s a rare thing to catch Senator Ted Cruz looking sheepish. There have been no documented cases since he swaggered onto the public stage during the 2012 Republican primary looking cocksure despite plenty of occasions (see: shutting down the government) where it might have been appropriate to show some regret…
Just as God led Moses to Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments, so He led Faith Christian Center pastor Gene Lingerfelt to 6900 U.S. Highway 287 in Arlington, Texas, to become the bearer of His Word. As befits the digital age, He has swapped stone tablets for Twitter and…
Dr. Melba Ketchum, the East Texas veterinarian turned Bigfoot-hunting geneticist, is at a loss to explain why the scientific community refuses to take her research seriously. “It’s been rather painful,” she explained in an exclusive, one-on-one interview with WFAA. “I was naive when I went into this. I thought science…
In business-friendly Texas, people who want to teach the art of all-natural African hair-braiding have to jump through quite a few unnecessary loopholes, a new lawsuit claims. Isis Brantley, a Dallas-based hairbraider whose clients include Erykah Badu, got to know Texas hairbraiding rules the hard way in 1997, when seven…
In the heat of the moment, while the country is heaping much-deserved blame upon Senator Ted Cruz for forcing a government shutdown and mourning the resulting loss of the nation’s premiere panda cam, it can be easy to lose sight of the hundreds of thousands of rank-and-file federal employees whose…
The American Meteorological Society has released a preliminary version of its after-action report on the El Reno, Oklahoma, tornado, which killed noted storm chaser Tim Samaras, his son Paul and chase partner Carl Young. The result, even in dry, acronym-heavy academic language, manages to serve as both an enlightening and…
When EchoLight Studios launched a couple of years ago, it registered as a minor blip in Christian media while being roundly ignored by the mainstream press. Things were different a year later when, relatively fresh off his failed 2012 presidential run, former Senator Rick Santorum announced that he was becoming…
When it was first announced, all the way back in January, the Frisco Gun Club billed itself as the nation’s largest indoor shooting range. Nine months later, as club prepares to open this month, it has dropped that claim, focusing instead on its luxurious VIP lounge and culinary offerings. There’s…
So Buzz is sitting here trying to get a peek at healthcare.gov, the government website for health care insurance exchanges unveiled today as part of the Affordable Care Act. Six tries in, and we’re still stymied. But that’s fine. Universal health care wasn’t built in a day, and if you’re…
Update on October 2: William Gomez and his two children have been found safe in Wisconsin. Original post: William Gomez drove away in his family’s white Jeep at about 2 p.m. Sunday with his two grandkids, 7-year-old Marcus and 8-year-old Dominique, ostensibly headed for Carrollton’s Rhoton Park or Lewiville’s Vista…
So far, the turn-Texas-blue group Battleground Texas’ primary public function has been to serve as a Kim Jong-un-like bogeyman for Republican politicians to campaign against. Leave it to U.S. Senator John Cornyn, desperately trying to convince us that he’s just as crazy as junior colleague Ted Cruz, to take this…
The robocalls from Alliance AFT; the misleading mailers hastily called up at the last minute by God (and a Houston PR firm) only knows; the scathing “research paper” by arch-nemesis Don Williams; the chastisements of John Wiley Price, they all failed to convince Dallas ISD’s Board of Trustees. On Monday…
For the first time since the Clinton-Gingrich budget wars of 1995-96, hundreds of thousands of federal workers may soon be furloughed without pay, while others will be asked to work for free. The U.S. House of Representatives sent a bill to the U.S. Senate that would temporarily fund the government…
Any old state controlled by aging Republicans can pass laws to dramatically restrict access to abortion. It’s what you do when your state faces poverty, drought and a ton of other pressing issues that you’d rather not deal with. But making the anti-abortion laws stick is the real challenge. Texas…
It ain’t the state of Texas, but same-sex couples just got their legal marriages recognized by an entity that wields more influence at home and abroad than Governor Rick Perry ever will — that’s Irving-based oil giant ExxonMobil. The company, known for its insular, white-bread corporate culture, changes course about…
The cover story for Governor Rick Perry’s feud with California Governor Jerry Brown, his job-poaching trip to Missouri and his visit to a Maryland gun manufacturer the day after this month’s Navy Yard shooting, is that he’s bolstering the Texas economy by spreading the state’s low-tax gospel and wooing people…
Now that the war in Iraq is officially over and the one in Afghanistan winding down, the Department of Defense found itself facing a conundrum. It had just spent billions of dollars buying heavily armored personnel carriers designed to stand up to insurgent attacks only to find that it had…
BREAKING: PP, @ACLU, & @ReproRights have filed a suit in federal court to stop #HB2 from taking effect in TX. #StandWithTXWomen— Cecile Richards (@CecileRichards) September 27, 2013 Long before Wendy Davis laced up her pink Mizunos and stepped onto the floor of the Texas Senate for her historic filibuster, the…
Update at 1:11 p.m.: Police have identified the homeowner as 57-year-old William Hall. According to county property records, he lives at 10316 Sandra Lynn Drive, which shares an alley with Plummer Drive. At a press conference this morning, police provided a more detailed narrative of the shooting, which you can…
It’s a question that stumps even the most erudite of moral philosophers: who beats their own grandmother? What type of vile creature would stoop so low as to willingly injure a blood relative, much less one who’s frail and 85 years old? Here, at last, is the answer: James Dolan…
Yesterday afternoon, Texas gaped as the resurrected Big Tex experienced, in the vaguely unsettling words of State Fair spokeswoman Sue Gooding, a “premature birth.” Fair Park’s official Twitter feed announced the successful delivery with an equally unfortunate metaphor: “Ta-daaa! Big Tex drops his robe earlier than announced.” Rest assured that…
