DATELINE: Fort Stockton, Texas
Some fun facts about Texas: it was a Republic between 1836 and 1845. It only joined the Union on the conditions that it could secede whenever it felt like it, and that it could divide itself into five smaller states whenever it felt like it, like some kind of constitutional Hydra. These […]

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DATELINE: Fort Stockton, Texas
The latest election news is that John McCain has just beaten Mitt Romney in Florida’s Republican primary, which is the last election until next week’s Elephantine Tuesday, when 22 states vote at once - the biggest day in the history of American primaries. Here’s what McCain’s Floridian coalition of the willing looked […]

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DATELINE: Austin, Texas
So tonight is George W. Bush’s final State of the Union speech then, which the former Democratic candidate Dennis Kucinich decided to mark by trying to impeach the President. The wag. Sadly he has just announced he is postponing this bit of political fun for a little while longer.

Either way, Kucinich is not […]

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DATELINE: Houston, Texas

Obama cleaned up in South Carolina last night. Most of the mainstream media’s talking heads will spend the next week prattling on about the significance of the black turn-out, and whether Obama’s success will be replicated in states with smaller African American communities. Please ignore this prattling.
“It’s not about colour, it’s generational” said […]

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DATELINE: New Orleans, Louisiana
A week before we hit New Orleans (correct pronunciation: ‘N’orlins’), I got an email from a concerned British friend saying the following:
“I cannot emphasise how careful you should be - stay in the French Quarter, do not leave it on any account! And even then be really careful. It’s not just ‘haha […]

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