What's hot in Texas and Dallas-Fort Worth
In a massively creative fiction, millions of working stiffs get no benefits and pay little or no taxes. All because their employers classify them as "independent contractors"
Jim Schutze: Oak Cliff doesn't need to ask permission
On streetcars and saving churches, a younger element in Oak Cliff shows a truly phenomenal capacity for stepping past the Moribundo Tribe at Dallas City Hall to get things done
Jacquielynn Floyd: Customers cold to Oncor info blackout
Their white-hot rage is less toward the power giant's response to the weather than at its response to them
Tod Robberson: Frisco's housing disparity is our problem
The message: We love the cheap labor you send our way, but, hey, we don't want those people actually living among us
William McKenzie: Should UT spend more of its endowment?
With universities about to be told to help make up the state's budget shortfall, is UT-Austin leaving good money unspent?
And the best of the rest of the world
Charles Krauthammer: U.S. is 'ungovernable'? Nonsense
Desperate to explain away this scandalous state of affairs, the Obama agenda going up in flames, liberal apologists haul out the old reliable from the Carter years
The Economist: Blame Obama more than the system
Rasmussen: 73% agree that Washington is broken
Charlie Cook: A new-look Congress won't change dysfunction
Pew Research: Dems' edge slipping among millennials
Steve Chapman: Both sides getting it wrong on Obama
Walter Rodgers: Obama must take on his enemies
Mike Bianchi: You want forgiveness, Tiger? Go win something
Nothing else matters to me, and it shouldn't matter to you, either. I can't wait to watch Tiger play golf again. Everything else he says today is just a bunch of noise in the system
Art Spander: Ernie Els is right. Tiger Woods is selfish
Christine Brennan: New Tiger seems a lot like the old one
Jacob Bernstein: Canned apology won't solve Tiger's problems
