by Erik Kain on February 10, 2012
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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by Erik Kain on October 3, 2011
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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by Erik Kain on October 2, 2011
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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by Erik Kain on September 13, 2011
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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by Erik Kain on September 1, 2011
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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