It's Monday and that means it is time for another edition of the Texas Progressive Alliance's weekly round up. Enjoy the first one of the year!BossKitty at TruthHugger sees the USA is not the "goodie two shoes" it claims to be. Among other discrepancies, euphemisms don't change hard cold facts, US Teaches Terrorism As “Irregular Warfare”

Interesting Letters to the Editor. The natives grow restless. Denton Record ChronicleOverworked inspectorsI found “Voicing the silence” (Page 1A, Dec. 31) very interesting, especially if you work the numbers on Texas’ oil and gas well inspectors a little.

This is a picture of the pipe used when Braden was fracturing the well. The hose mentioned in the post below is not for frack water. It takes a much bigger pipe for the frack water.

Just walked up to the courthouse and it looks like we've got a drug case going to trial.

Odd and funny.