TX Progressives recent thoughts

Yours truly has been on vacation, including during the first Cruz-O'Rourke debate, which had the post-debate spin I expected when the debates over debates started. Brains offers a roundup of debate hot takes, while noting, as I have, that he's still undervoting.

Anyway, here's Brains' roundup of this week's debate-focused wrangle, and below selected takes from the week before.

SocraticGadfly wonders why states' rights wingnuts like Ted Cruz can't talk more about the truly overlooked Ninth Amendment and less about the un-overlooked Tenth Amendment, especially in judicial confirmation hearings. And here are some posts of interest from other Texas blogs. BeyondBones catalogs what the devastating fire at the Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro means to the world. Kevin Curtin says goodbye to the iconic Threadgill's World Headquarters in Austin. Raise Your Hand Texas reads between the lines of the Texas Education Agency's budget request. Mean Green Cougar Red and Eric Berger look back at Hurricane Ike ten years after. Sanford Nowlin takes measure of Beto O'Rourke. See Brains for more from last week, too. Note also his hot take on Beto's chances.