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Texas Jury Strikes Down Patent Troll’s Claim In Clear Victory For Patent Reform

February 10, 2012Erik Kain

Score one for the forces of good. Eolas Technologies, which claimed to hold patents on essentially any program which allowed access to the “interactive web” had their claims struck down in a Texas court: An eight-member federal jury in East Texas deliberated Thursday for just a few hours before concluding that all of Eolas’ asserted claims […]

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Rick Perry is Right About Educating the Children of Undocumented Workers

October 3, 2011Erik Kain

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is staving off attacks on all fronts, including recent revelations about his family’s hunting camp which have drawn accusations of racism to the GOP candidate. While these attacks may indeed be off the mark, as Perry’s camp claims, they are far from the only blows the Republican governor is taking. Ironically, […]

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Why Rick Perry’s Racist Hunting Camp Sign Matters

October 2, 2011Erik Kain

Texas Governor Rick Perry just can’t seem to catch a break. The latest in a long series of political punches came Saturday, when the Washington Post broke the story of Perry’s family hunting camp which was for many years named “Niggerhead.” While the Perry campaign has claimed that the sign with the offensive name was […]

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Texas Justice

September 13, 2011Erik Kain

Failure to act quickly may have prolonged sexual abuse scandals that have plagued Texas for at least the past decade, according to Tim Murphy of Mother Jones: Gov. Rick Perry did not take swift action to address the problem, which his office knew about for years. Allegations of systematic mistreatment at TYC facilities first came to […]

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Texas and the Prison-Industrial-Complex

September 1, 2011Erik Kain

Tim Murphy digs into the big business of the private prison industry over at Mother Jones. He zeroes in on Rick Perry who took steps to help close the state’s $27 billion deficit last year by pushing for the privatization of the Texas prison healthcare network: Private prisons are a big business in Texas, where […]

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