Subject: John Cornyn

• FYI

  September 22, 2006

• Dear John

  September 18, 2006

• Big Bad John Cornyn Is One Tough Cowboy, Apparently

  June 20, 2008

• Cornyn's Killing Noriega, Money-Wise

  July 15, 2008

• Death Row Show

  The media makes causes of more and more capital murder convicts. Meanwhile, John Albert Burks dies almost unnoticed, just another inmate moving along on the efficient execution assembly line of Texas justice.

  July 13, 2000

• Fish Stories

  Will a whistle-blower suit snare John Whitmire?

  October 5, 2000

• A Night in the Tub

  An angel named Grace, a doctor who's a real Trip and fresh gore flooding the ER -- the new Ben Taub gets old quick

  September 6, 2001

• Texas Votes 2008: In Chart Form!!

  October 27, 2008

• The 2008 Voting Charts: U.S. House District 22

  October 29, 2008

• Got It, Flaunt It

  Those campaign donations aren't buying yard signs and pamphlets

  July 22, 2004

• Veteran's Day In Houston

  November 11, 2008

• Allen Stanford And John Cornyn: Best Buds For Sun-Drenched Road Trips

  Photo by Z_deadWho likes to travel with Houston's newest financial-meltdown icon?Senator John Cornyn, that's who.Talking Points Memo has the goods, via legistorm.com, on a "fact-finding trip" (quotes federally mandated by the US Department of Air Quotes) that Cornyn took on Allen Stanford's dime to Antigua and Barbuda right after the 2004 election."Sen. Cornyn discloses expenses for himself and a companion, but does not disclose the identity of the companion," legistorm.com notes.There are, of c

  February 17, 2009

• Border Bound

  April 29, 1999

• T. Boone Gets Ready For His Million-Megawatt March

  General T. Boone Pickens is invading Washington, D.C. tomorrow. Well, virtually. Members of his New Energy Army, numbering somewhere between 1.5 and 3 million strong, are planning to bombard Congress with emails and phone calls urging lawmakers to pass legislation favorable to Pickens' plan to use less foreign oil and more wind power and natural gas. The three day campaign on Capitol Hill will last through Friday and Pickens' troops are getting keyed up."It's going to be a lot of fun to see

  March 31, 2009

• A Pardon For Galveston's Jack Johnson? McCain's On It

  Senator John McCain is announcing today that he wants President Obama to issue a pardon for Jack Johnson, the "Galveston Giant" who ruled boxing's heavyweight division in the early 20th Century and was convicted of transporting a woman across state lines to get him some.Because McCain is all about the sex.No, actually, McCain says he thinks -- like a lot of people do -- that Johnson's arrest was racially motivated.The AP reports: "I've been a very big fight fan, I was a mediocre boxer myself," M

  April 1, 2009

• Zoned Out

  December 16, 1999

• Time Grudgingly Credits The Chronicle For Its Work On Army-Recruiter Suicides

  Time magazine has done a comprehensive report on the suicides among Army recruiters, a massive piece with plenty of attention paid to the troubles in Houston.As we read it, we wondered -- more and more as it went on -- how they were not giving any credit to the Houston Chronicle, which has been doing sterling work on the subject.Finally, five paragraphs from the end, some grudging acknowledgment is made: It wasn't until reports in the Houston Chronicle provoked Republican Senator John Cornyn of

  April 7, 2009

• Hispanics Delivered by Border Midwives Are Having Trouble Getting U.S. Passports

  Post-9/11 worries target South Texas

  December 18, 2008

• The DREAM Act Might Be Dead, But These Kids' Hopes Are Not

  June 19, 2008

• Over the Rainbow

  Democrats get their ticket. But can they get the votes?

  April 18, 2002

• Home Again

  Ten years brings the Texas justice system to its senses. Roy Criner's free.

  August 24, 2000

• Border Fence May Destroy Wildlife Habitat

  May 31, 2007

• Horse Flesh

  Texas struggles with what to do with its overabundance of Equus caballus, while Europeans wait with open mouths

  April 13, 2006

• Purchase Orders

  Bob Perry writes a lot of checks to politicians, and wields a lot of influence as a result

  February 24, 2005

• Dance Fever

  HISD kills a reality show on high school dancers

  October 21, 2004

• Food Fight Hiccup

  Will four felonies spoil Four Families' Hobby deal?

  November 28, 2002

• Dream Team or Bad Dream?

  Democrats sift pre-election portents for the answer

  October 31, 2002

• Paying the Price

  Hospital district officials wanted a simple one-sentence policy on immigrant health care. What they got instead was a criminal probe and plenty of politics.

  October 11, 2001

• War Dance

  Alabama-Coushatta Indians are shedding their passive ways in big bets on land claims and casinos. But some fear they could be gambling away their great tribal heritage.

  August 23, 2001

• In Through the Out Door

  A new law hastens a Brown official's departure

  May 3, 2001

• Suck-Up Time

  Court on a hot tin roof

  July 20, 2000

• Sand in Your Craw?

  Make yourself heard

  July 13, 2000

• This Sand is Your Sand

  At the Village of Surfside, it's not just the beaches that are eroding. It's the Open Beaches Act.

  July 13, 2000

• Dubious Deal

  Special tax zones are already stimulating growth-a thriving cottage industry of attorneys, lobbyists, high paid consultants, developers and questionable financial projections

  August 5, 1999

• Landrush

  The city of Houston is being carved into special taxing districts, promising windfalls for some, financial burdens for others

  July 29, 1999

• The Man Who Would Be Kingmaker

  Karl Rove has masterminded all of Bush's political victories. Now he faces his toughest challenge: convincing you that the presidential front-runner owns his own soul.

  June 17, 1999

• John Cornyn Has KBR's Back In Any Future Rape Cases

  ​We've written several items about Jamie Leigh Jones, the local woman who is suing KBR over a gang-rape she says happened while she was working for the company in Iraq.The company put up roadblocks to her attempts to resolve the situation and her claims of rampant sexual harassment in KBR camps, but the federal courts have allowed her lawsuit to proceed.As part of the most recent appropriations act for the Defense Department, Senator Al Franken attached an amendment that would, according to th

  October 7, 2009