Hillary Clinton

Texas In 2016: Hillary Beats Rick Perry?

At some point, Texas will give up its status as a GOP guarantee. That seems the consensus, at least. A burgeoning Hispanic population, increasing transplants from California and New York, and a youth bubble surpassed by only Utah -- all signs point toward an eventual purpling of this putative Republ ... More >>

This Week In Food Blogs: The End of Cheap Food?

The Village Voice: One of the highlights of my recent trip to D.C. was getting to watch the announcement of the brand-new American Chef Corps live at the State Department. Robert Sietsema at the Village Voice has more on what the so-called Diplomatic Culinary Partnership entails, while Eater has the ... More >>

10 Politician Photos Sexier Than Anthony Weiner's Shots (NSFW)

If you've ever had any curiosity about how photogenic Anthony Weiner's crotch is, you're having a great week or so. (The answer, by the way, is "Not one-on hundredth as photogenic as he seems to think it is.") Weiner, who's taken a leave of absence from the U.S. House of Representatives to deal wit ... More >>

Top 10 Musical U.S. Presidents

"The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music." - Gerald Ford gwu.eduWhen else are we going to use this picture?​Today is President's Day, and if you'll think back to high-school U.S. History, you'll remember that potential Commande ... More >>

GOP State Rep. Candidate: Sure, I Caucused With Dems, But Just To Stop Barack Obama

Sarah Davis: A Clinton delegate only to stop Obama​Voters in well-to-do West U, Bellaire and Meyerland have a clear choice for State Rep this fall: A staunch Democrat, or someone who caucused in 2008 as a Hillary Clinton delegate.GOP hopeful Sarah Davis says she voted for Clinton in the 2008 prima ... More >>

Why Aren't There Any Good Conservative Comedians?

​It's a valid question, even in light of the specter of Satanism rearing its seven heads over Delaware last week. Actually, maybe that's the quick and dirty answer to my question: the reality of the Tea Party is funnier than any airplane food joke Christine O'Donnell could tell at the Improv. ... More >>

Josh Daniel Goes From Houston Press To Hillary Clinton's Speechwriter

Josh Daniel: From the Press to some government job​In a huge step down that can only be seen as evidence of incredible drug abuse or chronic ineptitude, a former Houston Press copy editor has become the new chief speechwriter for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.Josh Daniel, who had been working ... More >>

Sarah Palin: Libs Hate Her Because She's Beautiful, Not Like That Michelle Obama

The ugliness!! It BURNS!!!!​Texas Tech, that bastion of Americanism way out there in Lubbock, has done it again.This time they're not protesting a statue that allegedly features Commies and lesbians, nor are they linking tattoos to social deviance.This time, they're saying liberals hate Sarah Pali ... More >>

Fort Bend, You Could Have Had A "Patrick Swayze Elementary"

​Fort Bend is opening a new elementary, and they threw open the naming process. Three dozen suggestions came in.Some were old school: Abraham Lincoln Elementary. Honest Abe doesn't tend to get many things named after him these days outside of Illinois.Hillary Clinton Elementary? It would have ... More >>

Big Bad John Cornyn Stands Up To Hillary Clinton

A bunch of President Bush Obama's cabinet nominees will be approved in a pro forma vote in Congress later today, but among them will not be Hillary Clinton.Why? Our very own Senator John "Box Turtle" Cornyn, who apparently believes Clinton's appointment is some sneaky step towards gay marriage, sinc ... More >>

Turning the Screw: Von Won, Lil O, Ludacris, Flo Rida, the Roots, Suge Knight, Too $hort, The Kanye, Ghostface Killah and More

Welcome back to Turning the Screw, Rocks Off's weekly rap post. It probably won't rhyme, at least most of the time. E-mail tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Thanks, homies.       (Churchy) Single of the Week:  "I Love You," Von Won     Wire To Wire     ... More >>

Texas' Mess Of A Democratic Primary System May Be Changing

The Democratic Party of Texas caught some grief this year for its strange method of choosing delegates to the national convention, an odd and confusing hybrid of a primary and a caucus. The system ended up favoring urban, liberal parts of the state this year -- Hillary Clinton won the popular v ... More >>

Ambassador Schechter On Secretary Of State Clinton

With the world media coming dangerously close to announcing that Hillary Clinton plans to accept the Secretary of State position in Barack Obama’s cabinet, Hair Balls thought we’d reach out to longtime Clinton-family ally and former Ambassador to the Bahamas under President Clinton, Houston ... More >>

Book Review: Doomed Queens

Astros-Mets: Houston Takes Two of Three from New York, But St. Louis and Milwaukee Keep Chugging Along

Clinton Didn't Take Sheila Jackson Lee's Advice

Electile Dysfunction

Houston’s very own political provocateurs — Radio Music Theatre

BRIAN O'NEILL'S IRISH CAR BOMB

Golden Axe

This metallic duo does its part to further the great debate

Overnight Express: Woman Hit by Metro Rail Near Continental Club

Breaking Out of the Box: Conventional Women Embarking on Unconventional Paths

The Heritage Society marks Women’s History Month with a look at Houston’s earliest female movers and shakers

Barack Obama's past

The Reporter and the Politician

Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Amtgard, Howard Stern and Infernal Bridgroom

What’s Up With That Bizarro Jack Nicholson Video Supporting Hillary Clinton?

Why won't Mexicans vote for a black man?

SPECIAL ELECTION EDICIÓN

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in Austin

Jason Friedman’s NFL Playoff Preview: Hillary Clinton is to the New England Patriots as Chuck Norris is to Jessica Simpson

Jason Friedman’s NFL Picks, Week 14: Da Bears

A Woman in Charge author Carl Bernstein

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist tells all in a Hillary Clinton biography

We Got It Covered: Last Night's GLBT Forum for Democratic Presidential Candidates

Lights, Camera, Sheila!

Command Performance

Bill Clinton wakes 'em up, for a while, at Rice

Exercise Your Right to Gloat

Exercise Your Right to Gloat

Assassination Tango

Controversial docu-drama imagines a post-Bush scenario

Image of the Week

Hillary Clinton

Style Council

Macy's Impulse party is all about chic shopping

Kill Bill

A biased documentary exposes the vicious attempt to bring down Clinton

Sultan of Swatch?

Babe's shirt goes in the cards

Letters

Radio Active, Robo Right, Labor of Love

Same As the Old Boss

A lack of Bush means a lack of news in Houston

Boots and Hoots

Rocky Carroll crafts footwear for presidents and popes -- but not the Houston Rodeo

One Dick's Opinion of Another

Press Picks

Press Picks

Diner's Notebook

Restaurant-Go-Round

Letters

The Wendy Card

Wendy Gramm's all-American success story is a centerpiece of her husband's fledgling presidential bid. But there's more to the story than what's being packaged and sold by the Phil Gramm campaign.

The Celluloid of the President

A winning documentary about the Clinton campaign's inner circle

Celebrity Photographer, Photographer Celebrity

Talking with Annie Leibovitz about the manufacture of cultural identity and the American dream