A New Look!
As you are most likely noticing, Dog Canyon is sporting a new look. As Dog Canyon has grown and changed over the past year, our audience has grown as has our pack of writers. To better reflect the diverse content you will find on Dog Canyon, we have changed its format. You can now find multiple articles featured on Dog Canyon on the home page. We hope it inspires you to do some hunting through the more than 600 pieces and learn something new about the world.
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rick perry Archive
Texas Green Party and the GOP: In Bed to Keep Texas Red
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on July 7, 2010 | 2 CommentsWhy would Texas Green Party leaders make a deal with Republican Gov. Rick Perry to help beat Democrats? Perry and other GOP allies of the Greens are their bitter enemies on every single policy issue they care about. The sleazy deal, if successful, will help...
Stubborn as a Mule
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on June 5, 2010 | 1 CommentBill Maher’s piece on the stubborn idiots who continue to deny dangerous climate change brought to mind this clip from The Family Guy. That it’s Texas that inspires the “stubborn as a mule” routine is just a special bonus. Also, I hear Japan movie theaters...
Genius at PolitiFact: Rick Perry not Actually Louis XIV!
By whiskeydent | Posted on May 27, 2010 | 3 CommentsTuesday, I laughed at Harold Cook’s blog about PolitiFarce. Now, I’m ticked off about his target — PolitiFact. That’s because the geniuses behind PolitiFact chose to truth-test the following Boyd Richie quote about Rick Perry: “He’s spending Texans’ hard-earned money to live like Louis XIV.”...Rick Perry in Hair, by Sue Sylvester
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on May 15, 2010 | 2 CommentsDemocrats and the Rise of the New Confederacy
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on April 13, 2010 | 3 CommentsIt’s hard to ignore the irony. The wannabe Republican heirs of George W. Bush gather in New Orleans, the city Bush’s callousness and ineptitude all but destroyed, to advance a movement best called the New Confederacy. At the Southern Republican Leadership Conference here, Texas Gov....
A Socialist Primer: Rick Perry, Health Care & the Governor’s Race
By Joe Cutbirth | Posted on March 29, 2010 | 5 CommentsI’m wondering what it’s going to take for my former colleagues in the Texas press corps to call out Rick Perry for using the term “socialism” over-and-over to describe the insurance reform Congress passed last week. Either Perry and reporters covering him don’t know what...
Some Notes On the Primary Election: Weak Tea
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on March 3, 2010 | 8 CommentsWhile everyone’s talking about the extreme Right’s trashing of Kay Baily Hutchison and Rick Perry’s easy victory, other results seem to indicate the Tea Party is weak (if poisonous) tea indeed. Don’t get me wrong, I believe the Glenn Beck extremists remain one of the...
Rick Perry’s New Clothes
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on February 25, 2010 | 5 CommentsGov. Rick Perry likes to bash Washington, D.C. It’s an old game, of course. He’s gone so far as to seriously entertain talk of secession. That’s an old game, too, though a tragic one. What Perry doesn’t say: since he became governor in 2000, Texas...Secession, Nullification: Perry, Palin and Other Fringies
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on February 13, 2010 | No CommentsTexas authors Jim Moore (who graces our site with his fine writing from time to time) and Wayne Slater of the Dallas Morning News appeared on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews this week to talk about the old states rights, Jim Crow, segregationist code words...
Rick Perry’s Race to the Bottom
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on January 13, 2010 | 8 CommentsGov. Rick Perry says Texas will not compete for billions in education dollars in the federal “Race to the Top” program. It’s just another pitch to the secessionists, of course. So, Texas schools will go without money that could be used to education children. Instead,...