The White House

White House Down Is the Best Parody Since Team America

The White House Is Unmoved By Your Ridiculous Secession Petition, Texas

The dream-crushers over at the White House will not be building you a Death Star, and they will not be considering your requests to secede. Two months or so ago, just after President Obama won reelection, 23-year-old UT Arlington student Micah Hurd hastily wrote up the Texas version of the secessi ... More >>

Fiscal Cliff Would Slow Texas' Economy by 1.2 Percent, White House Predicts

Earlier this month, state legislators met in Austin to learn what damage Texas might sustain if the country careens off the fiscal cliff, which is now frighteningly near. The short answer is, quite a bit. As the Austin American-Statesman reported, state agencies stand to lose as much as $1.1 billio ... More >>

For We The People, It All Comes Down to Welsh Cakes or a Honey Brown Ale Home Brew

Last week Ann Romney shared a batch of her homemade Welsh cakes that she baked in a brief moment of reprieve in her kitchen in Belmont, Massachusetts. Phillip Rucker of The Washington Post was aboard the plane when the cakes were dispatched and was one of the lucky few who got to sample what a Repub ... More >>

Where Michelle Obama Should Eat in Dallas

The First Lady is headed to Dallas next week. A news release posted to the White House press page details the schedule for Michelle Obama's three-day trip, which will celebrate the anniversary of her Let's Move! initiative. She'll spend Thursday evening and Friday morning in the DFW area, meeting wi ... More >>

The White House's Official Behind the Scenes Look at Mavs' Visit With President Obama

We began the week with the broadcast version of Your Reigning World Champion Dallas Mavericks' visit to the White House to deliver President Obama his jersey. Moments ago, I see, the White House posted this nice little look behind the curtain starring Dirk, Jason Terry, Coach Carlisle and a decidedl ... More >>

It's Good to Be White...

...But let's not get cocky and blow it with anti-voting laws.

Obama's Home-Brewin' Won't Cut It. So: Five Foodie Ideas To Prop Up the Prez.

​With Oktoberfest and other events coming up, it's High Beer Season, which explains why the White House has been serving up some of his homebrews. But why stop with beer? House-made anything is a worthy endeavor that rewards the laborer with a fresh, interesting product you can serve with a s ... More >>

Oh Em Gee Alton Brown is Coming! (And Other Thoughts On This Weekend's Big Food Show).

​The American Culinary Federation's National Convention comes to the Gaylord Texan this weekend, kicking off tomorrow with Alton Brown's demonstration on how to use salt. Salt! If you can't figure it out on your own I'm sure the talk, titled "A Brief Guide to Handling the Most Powerful Chemica ... More >>

Feds Want to Ditch "Excess Property," Including 75 Acres in Fort Worth. Will Dallas Follow Suit?

One of three vacant library branches, this one on Marsh Lane and Northwest Highway​Earlier this week, the White House announced that it's looking to sell off excess federal properties -- chief among them, the million-square-foot, 75-acre Fort Worth Federal Center. Says the Obama administration, "B ... More >>

Of Broccoli-Hating, Deranged Bowels and Ex-Presidents

Yeah, we don't like broccoli either.​Abraham Lincoln had plenty of notable characteristics, but a healthy appetite wasn't among them. Even his stepmother wasn't impressed by his eating habits: "Abe was a moderate eater," she recalled. Lincoln typically ate an egg for breakfast and an apple for ... More >>

The Eaters in Chief

Thomas Jefferson: great taste in food -- plus he helped give us that whole separation of church/state thing.​The federal holiday Americans observe next Monday was originally designed to honor George Washington. But when the government standardized its celebrations in 1968, they stuck the annua ... More >>

What Two Sentences in The WSJ Suggest About the Future of the Trinity River Project

U.S. Army Corps of EngineersFrom the Dallas Floodway Extension Project Description, this 1989 photo: "US175 blocked by water backed up into White Rock Creek. Normally, this is a busy traffic artery leading to the central business district."​Wilonsky sent me an interesting Wall Street Journal artic ... More >>

That Makes Two Administrations in a Row Not Fond of Funding the Trinity River Project

Patrick MichelsRemember the levee collapse in December? Sure you do.​Interesting story inside The Dallas Morning News today about cuts in the federal budget for the Dallas Trinity River levee project. I'm not saying The News story is any kind of propaganda. Just saying there's more there than meet ... More >>

Craig Watkins's Trip to the White House

​As we noted Monday, Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins was invited to a White House Christmas party this week. I went over to his Facebook page to see if he'd posted any photos; sure enough. I dunno. I was excepting more. I mean, I guess the president's somewhere in this picture, right ... More >>

Mr. Watkins Goes to Washington

​On Saturday night, Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins sent word that he's been invited to A Very Special Holiday Party -- this Tuesday, matter of fact. (Although the missive, as you'll see below, says December 17.) At least the location's certain: the White House. And per the lette ... More >>

Whitt's End: 11.27.09

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *This year's Super Bowl halftime entertainment is The Who. What the what? Springsteen. The Who. Next year at SB XLV in Arlington: Lawrence Welk? Maybe I'm just bothered that 1) The Who sucks. 2)The ... More >>

White House Invites Head of Dallas CityDesign Studio to Talk Clean Energy, Public Health

Brandon ThibodeauxBrent Brown​Ran into bcWORKSHOP and Re:Vision Dallas's Brent Brown Friday night at the opening of Main Street Garden, and during a lengthy chat that spilled over into a downtown dinner with our families, not once did he mention a pending trip to Washington, D.C. But the Dallas In ... More >>

Big Johnson

If only The Dallas Morning News had attacked its Trinity River reporting with the same punch it attacked us.

Soap Floats: White House Lawyers Consider Shutting Down Unofficial Obama Products

Tried getting hold of Craig Tiritilli and Salah Boukadoum yesterday afternoon, but had no luck. Then again, maybe the two Soap Hope-rs behind The Original Obama Bar are laying low at the moment following this report outta the U.K., which says that White House lawyers are now "insisting on control ov ... More >>

Food For Thought...

"I am not an Obama supporter. Could never be, and as much as having an African-American in the White House could be a good thing, having one with Marxist ideals is certainly not a good thing! I will not be patronizing your restaurant,  much less the 'Obama Room.'" (Patron--make that former patr ... More >>

10 Questions: Former Presidents

OK, OK--a gimmick for Inauguration day. Give us a break. The President gets a personal chef, state dinners and could probably walk out of any restaurant in the country without paying. Of course, there have been some notorious culinary moments: The competent Bush puking all over his Japanes ... More >>

Lewisville's Waiting for President Bush's Records. All, What, Three of 'Em?

As President Bush packs up the White House in advance of his move to Dallas next week(ish), the National Archives and Records Administration is in the process of trucking loads of paper, electronic and audio-visual documents to a storage space in Lewisville so that when the time comes, the boxes can ... More >>

Ten Years Ago, Kevin Sullivan Said Goodbye to the Dallas Mavericks' Front Office. Next Week, He Moves Out of the West Wing.

A decade ago, I interviewed Kevin Sullivan on his last day as the Dallas Mavericks' vice president of communications, a job he'd held for 18 years -- since the team's inception in 1980. It seemed like a good idea to do another exit interview today, because Sullivan, pictured above with President Bus ... More >>

From the White House to Your House, Texas Pols' Christmas Tree Balls

A Friend of Unfair Park, who's clearly in the holiday spirit, suggested we head back over to the White House's "A Red, White and Blue Christmas 2008" page, if only to check out local (and regional) pols' choice of ornaments hanging from the White House Christmas Tree. And, sure enough, there were a ... More >>

Crime Watch: Walking a $500 Tab and Stealing a Car With a Tow Truck

At 2851 Walnut Hill Lane sits a one-time mom-and-pop diner where, when I was a kid, my father and I used to have breakfast every single Saturday morning. But, several years ago, the new owners bricked up its windows (to class up the joint, naturally) and turned the eatery into a drinkery called the ... More >>

Queen Question

See the story of Helen Thomas

Fact Is, George Bush Probably Wishes He Still Owned the Texas Rangers

The White House If this picture were at all legible, you'd swear Nolan Ryan was president and not the other dude. It'd be nice if the White House sooner than later posted bigger and better photos from the Texas Rangers' visit with their former co-owner yesterday. Till then, we'll make do with this ... More >>

Double Chuck

He's Osgood as he wants to be

He Looks Nothing Like Josh Brolin

White House photo by Shealah Craighead For those so interested, there are a dozen photos from the Jenna Bush-Henry Hager weekend nuptials down the road posted to the White House Web site -- including this one, in which the President Bush appears affeared of touching Jenna's back. --Robert Wilonsky

Bush, a Giant Among Comedians

Shealah Craighead/White House Swore I wasn't gonna mention Jessica Simpson for at least one more day, but this one's too good not to mention -- because when the President of the U.S. and A. uses her name as a punch line, well, we are through the looking glass. The New York Giants took a trip to th ... More >>

Lewisville Think Tank Unhappy Hillary Clinton Won't RSVP, Dang It

Lewisville-based Institute for Policy Innovation -- the Dick Armey-founded "non-profit, non-partisan public policy 'think tank'" -- will be in D.C. this week, hosting a chitchat at the National Press Club called "Trade and the Race for the White House: Exploring the Candidates' Positions." John McCa ... More >>

Bush Tells Dallas, Fort Worth and Arlington Mayors Their Jobs Are Harder Than His -- Haw, Haw, Haw.

Um, did anyone else know Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck and Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief were meeting with President Bush and Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez today, to discuss expanding free trade agreements? Well, if you didn't, there's a report here from the meetin ... More >>

Shrill Happens

Sully in the White House

This guy used to work for the Dallas Mavericks. Now he works for President Bush. Hunh. File this under Holy Crap, You Cannot Be Serious: Yesterday, President Bush appointed Kevin Sullivan as White House communications director, after Sullivan spent a year as an assistant secretary of communications ... More >>

Cursive, Saul Williams, Planes Mistaken for Stars and Mike Park

June 9

Going back to the well

Did Newport's fish its menu from a deep hole?

Bush's free ride

With a little help from his Democratic pals, George W. Bush has become the GOP front-runner for president. But it's a cold world beyond Texas' borders, and it may take more than charm and luck to carry a good ol' boy to the White House.

Letters

Black like him

Despite the Starr report's dirty details, Paula Jones' case against the nation's "first black president" hinges as much on race as on sex

The perils of Paula

Paula Jones learns that hell hath no fury like a lawyer out to collect a bill

The war over Gulf War Syndrome

Dallas doctors believe they've solved the mystery of sick veterans, but find themselves in "a bloody scientific war" where they are branded charlatans

Poop on the scoop

DMN editors spin the truth until it wobbles rather than come clean on how they blew their big story

Paper chase

William Morgan says he's just an innocent document dealer snared in a campaign finance scandal. And if you believe that, he has some old railroad bonds he wants to sell you.

Political coup

Wag the Dog paints the White House a brilliant black

The (W)right to Fly

How little Legend Airlines beat mammoth American at its own game

Going down

Air Force One nosedives into an ocean of ennui

To coldly go

Contact is more like close encounters of the turgid kind

Rogue agency

The CIA should open its files on slain Guatemalan guerrilla Everardo