Politics

Is a political yard sign causing issues among residents in a Lubbock neighborhood?

It seems that there are some conflicting messages going on in the Panhandle.

Just when you thought people could get along comes Mayor Johnny Isbell of the City of Pasadena, TX. At a recent council meeting, the mayor and councilman Cody Wheeler had a very, umm interesting exchange. The mayor called the councilman, boy...

As if having Donald Trump leading in the polls for the Republican nominee wasn't funny enough, the guys at Bad Lip Reading decided to jump in and make it even more comical...I didn't think that was possible.

Do Texas Tech students pay attention to politics? PoliTech set out to answer that question. You might not like the answer.

Congress couldn't get it together enough to agree on something, and now foreign tourists are going to miss their one chance to see the Statue of Liberty. The government has shut down (mostly)!

I know there were a lot of you who were very tired of hearing about the election, seeing the ads, the debates, everything about the entire process possible had you stressed completely out.

It's over, Barack Obama has been re-elected as the 44th President of the United States. I realize the results of today's election are only minutes old; but I already miss the candidates out on the campaign trail.

CNN reported that a Texas father killed a man he caught in the act of sexually abusing his daughter. So we asked you if you felt the father should be punished for his actions and the results are largely in favor of the father.

Amazingly, there are still people on the planet who are connected to the internet, but don’t know that The Onion is not a source for actual news. These dim bulbs and dull knives clearly don’t understand satire, and the fact that it is the basis of all Onion content. This ignorance is still running so rampant that there is even a blog that posts the Facebook commentary of the slow ones who surf amo

Big props to Jon Stewart for catching this.  You've got to wonder if these political talking heads think we're just stupid or what.  This is an example of one of the most amazingly ignorant attempts to "spin" the news that you've ever heard. Click through for the clip

I want to form a political party.  I either want to call it the "Focus" party or "The Big Picture" party.    My reasoning is simple, it seems our leaders are constantly getting distracted by the little crap.  I'm not saying that stuff doesn't matter, it just seems that they use those things as a distraction for real issues.  Read more after the jump if you dare.