Grits for Breakfast

Most of what's wrong with drug task forces may be summed up by examining a recent, massive drug bust in Anderson County, TX by the Dogwo...

My house in Austin backs up to the Featherlite tract that was purchased by former Dell Chief Financial Officer Tom Meredith . Meredith actua...

Loving this new podcasting offering, " Takin' My Country Back ." Listen to it now! Forward it to your friends. Call your local...

Presently Texas has 2,540 separate law enforcement agencies licensed with the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Edu...

I noted earlier that drug task forces across the country are rife with corruption, despite the Kerry/Edwards desire to continue their fundin...

I was disappointed to find that John Kerry expressly backed Byrne-grant funded drug task forces when the Republicans tried to kill the prog...

Having just included The Tipping Point in a review of two newer books, I was interested to see the new Malcolm Gladwell book is coming out i...

My friends at The Texas Observer published a 2,500 word three-book review authored by yours truly in their Oct 8, 2004 issue. Even though ...

Friends and readers know that imbroglios involving drug task forces have occupied much of my time since the infamous 1999 Tulia drug sting ....

Frequently it has occurred to me that the best political campaigns (I'm speaking of issue campaigns, not candidates, though it's tru...

One of my biggest beefs is the use of drug enforcement strategies that create new crime instead of investigating current ones. A Tennessee d...

What can be done to solve Texas ’ problem of “gypsy cops,” who float from department to department without their bad records ever catching u...

Grits for Breakfast is the private weblog and nom de plume of Scott Henson, a former journalist turned opposition researcher/political consu...

Here are brief bios of Grits for Breakfast writers. Scott Henson, aka, Grits for Breakfast Scott Henson is presently interim Executive ...