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During her term as president of the State Bar of Texas, Harriet Miers wrote 11 president's opinions for the monthly Texas Bar Journal. Miers' opinions are provided here for informational purposes. All files are in pdf format. These are large files, please be patient as you download them. June 1992 July 1992 September 1992 October 1992 November 1992 December 1992 January 1993 February 1993 March 1993 April 1993 May 1993

At a leadership seminar in California Friday, Motorola CEO Ed Zander talked about his role in rebuilding the phone maker's brand. But when answering a question from the audience about the iPod Nano, Zander apparently lost his cool saying, "Screw the Nano. What the hell does the Nano do? Who listens to 1,000 songs?" Motorola, however, has fired back and claims IDG News Service, which first reported the outburst, is taking the comment completely out of context. Company officials say Zander was smiling and joking when he responded to the question, and he did praise Apple and its iPod. "Motorola...

New Orleans Didn’t Just Go Nuts -- It’s Been Nuts by Mac Johnson Posted Sep 6, 2005 Where to even begin in being one more idiot talking about Hurricane Katrina? I hate the subject. It should be a news item and a humanitarian cause --a huge recovery and reconstruction effort joined in by all. It should not be a political issue fit for “commentary.” But the Hurricane tore at more than just the weaknesses in New Orleans’ inadequate levees. The shortcomings of the levee system were known to all who ever lived on the Gulf Coast, and in the end,...

Katrina Costly, but Not As Big As Expected Aug 30 5:38 PM US/Eastern By MATT CRENSON AP National Writer news://newsclip.ap.org/GARF10208302126@news.ap.org In terms of economic damage and lives lost, Katrina may turn out to be one of the worst hurricanes in U.S. history. But the storm actually turned out to be much less powerful than predicted. Meteorologists say a puff of dry air coming out of the Midwest weakened Katrina just before it reached land, transforming a Category 5 monster into a less-threatening Category 3 storm. The last-minute gust also pushed Katrina slightly to the east of its Big Easy-bound trajectory,...

Is This a Great Country, or What? By Gene Weingarten Have you seen the list of 100 people nominated to be the greatest American of all time, as chosen in an online poll? It's a hoot. It's going to be the basis of a month-long series on the Discovery Channel in June, featuring runoff elections where the public will finally choose a winner. I decided I owed it to history — the history of American humor — to phone a Discovery Channel spokesperson for comment. Me: So, are you happy with the 100 nominees? Elizabeth Hillman: Well, we were pleased...

Paris Hilton eager to make leap from globetrotting sex kitten to savvy business titan. 'I'm glad I got the partying out my system when I was young, because now I'm so over it and I can focus on my career,' Hilton said. 'Now I'm trying to build an empire'... DEVELOPING...

Bush Lays Out Energy Plan As Prices Soar By H. JOSEF HEBERT WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush, facing economic and political damage from soaring gas prices, offered proposals Wednesday to speed construction of nuclear power plants and oil refineries and boost sales of energy-efficient vehicles. Bush outlined his initiatives in his second energy speech in a week, reflecting growing concern in the White House that high energy prices are beginning to slow economic growth and undercut the president's approval rating. Speaking to small business leaders, Bush lamented that he was powerless to cut gas prices. ``I wish I could,'' he...

Two traveling penguins from Seaworld in San Diego went through regular airport screening at Denver International Airport recently. Here, Pat and Penny are removed from their carry-on case so they can walk through the metal detector. For the slideshow, see: http://www.thedenverchannel.com/slideshow/4402056/detail.html?qs=;s=1;w=320

Bush's Second Chance -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hadley Arkes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (c) 2005 First Things 152 (April 2005): 13-19. Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety (Henry IV, Part 1). The sense of relief, felt so deeply in the pro-life community on November 3, 2004, seems to have drifted away in the weeks and months since the presidential election. It is already easy to forget how great a threat the election posed: even the most sober observers of the political scene recognized that a Kerry presidency would mark the end of any prospects for the pro-life cause in Congress or...

MIT Builds Alarm Clock That Hides By Nate Mook, BetaNews March 25, 2005, 11:24 AM MIT Media Lab might have the answer for individuals who just can't get out of bed in the morning. Research associate Gauri Nanda has created an alarm clock, called "Clocky," that drives off a bedside table and hides as soon as the snooze button is pressed. And to ensure its owner awakes, Clocky hides in a different spot each day. Clocky sports wheels and is enveloped in a shag carpet to prevent damage during its fall. Inside, a processor calculates a new hiding place each...

BY COLLIN NASH STAFF WRITER March 17, 2005 James Neville achieved a rarity in American politics on Tuesday night. He ran unopposed for a third term as mayor in a North Hempstead village, and lost. He is the first to admit that he let his guard down. "I got lazy," he said. Running with the Unity Party in the tiny North Hempstead village of Baxter Estates, Neville shrugged off campaigning. A two-term village mayor, Neville, 51, came to office in March 2001, edging out challenger and two-term trustee John Maher by two votes. By the time the short flurry of...

The Associated Press reports that biologists with the Idaho National Guard have discovered a new species of fairy shrimp in a desert lake bed. Dana Quinney and Jay Weaver first found the forked-tailed shrimp nine years ago and will publish their findings in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Crustacean Biology. Why does the National Guard need biologists who study shrimp?

Britney Spears, Paris Hilton Most Googled By Ed Oswald, BetaNews December 23, 2004, 3:08 PM Pop star Britney Spears and actress and hotel fortune heiress Paris Hilton were the two most popular queries in 2004, according to Google's Zeitgeist which was released Thursday. The term "zeitgeist" is German in origin, and means "the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era" according to Webster's Dictionary. Google took a broad range of topics in its survey, ranging from technology to types of clothing. Some notable popular queries: - Movie star Orlando Bloom was the most frequently queried male celebrity, with...

Great political cartoon on Murrow's Ghost upstairs at CBS. Click on the link.

Brown's gold sale 'cost the UK £1.5bn' By Tony Freinberg (Filed: 28/11/2004) Gordon Brown has cost the British taxpayer almost £1.5 billion by selling off half of Britain's bullion reserves just before the gold price soared. The Chancellor sold 395 tonnes of gold at an average price of $275 an ounce between 1999 and 2001, raising £2.3 billion for the Exchequer. At the time, gold was at a 20-year market low. It has now risen to more than $450 an ounce. Had he waited, he would have raised a little over £3.77 billion, a difference of more than £1.47 billion....

Close Where is that gold dinar? by Jude Wanniski Wednesday 24 November 2004 11:01 AM GMT When Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Muhamad last November retired from his 22 years in power at age 77, I had hoped he would devote his energies to a monetary reform of the Islamic world built around a gold dinar. But after a few speeches and press releases on this subject, he has disappeared, practically dropping out of sight.With the dollar price of gold now soaring and the US dollar sinking against the euro, the whole world could now make good use of Mahathir's idea,...

MOST CHARITABLE STATES--RED OR BLUE? By Michelle Malkin   ·   November 10, 2004 08:46 AM Several readers have sent me this ranking of states by IQ, purporting to show that people in red states are dumber, on average, than people in blue states. Like a lot of what the Democrats have spewed this election cycle, the IQ chart--pushed most prominently by Bush-hater Howard Stern--is a hoax.The Generosity Index, compiled by The Catalogue For Philanthropy, is for real. It is computed by taking each state's average income and average charitable contribution, then subtracting the second rank from the first to get a...

AIM Users Streamed Political Video Ads By David Worthington, BetaNews October 27, 2004, 7:10 PM In the finals days before voters go to the polls in US Presidential election, partisans are doing nearly everything possible to reach out to voters in so-called "swing states." No one is immune to their unrelenting efforts to sway public sentiment -- not even users of America Online. For the past several ad cycles, AOL Instant Messenger users who volunteered their zip code are now receiving geo-targeted streaming video political ads as they chat. An AOL spokesperson told BetaNews that the ads were spread across...

Rick Ackerman Sep 29, 2004 Excerpt from the current Rick's Picks (website). You can subscribe here. Will the U.S. simply declare victory and pull out of Iraq after the election? My colleague Gary North thinks so, and he's in good company, since conservative columnist Robert Novak also thinks so. "Novak says that plans are now being made at the highest level to pull out of Iraq next year," notes North in his latest letter." Here's how Novak himself sees things playing out: "Inside the Bush administration policymaking apparatus, there is strong feeling that U.S. troops must leave Iraq next year....