Grits for Breakfast

See Part I . Why is Sun Tzu relevant to opposition research? In the military classic, On War, Clausewitz taught that war is politics carrie...

See also Sun Tzu and the Art of Opposition Research, Parts Two , Three , Four , Five , and Six . Criminal justice reform represents my polit...

Okay, Nate's right , Blogger's headed south on me, and I need to switch to a more reasonable hosting service. Until I do, though, th...

Here's a few recent items worth linking: First, whatever you do, don't save anyone from drowning in San Marcos. Apparently, pol...

Friends and close readers know I was the court-appointed guardian of a child of an incarcerated parent (her father was deceased) from age ...

Another Texas drug task force may shut down rather than comply with Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) rules and supervision. The West ...

Crime is neither random nor inevitable. It always occurs in a context, in particular the context of the individual who engages in it. While ...

As America prepares to celebrate Independence Day on July 4th, it's worth recalling for a moment that personal freedoms are still the ba...

Via Burnt Orange Report , excerpts from Austin state Rep. Mark Strama's recent buzz-generating talk on the use of the Internet in elect...

For those who care, a few updates about the Grits site: First, the new look. No, it's not the result of some long-anticipated re-design ...

I was an economics major in college (never graduated) so ever since I began thinking about criminal justice issues, I've been fascinated...

Asset forfeiture opportunities offer some perverse incentives for law enforcement. In Weatherford, defrocked Parker County Sheriff Jay Brown...

Judges fear the worst , says the June 26th Beaumont Enterprise, after Governor Rick Perry vetoed HB 2193 which would have strengthened Tex...

Here's one to watch: In Conroe, TX, prosecutors are seeking an indictment against a dry cleaner for positioning a hidden surveillance ca...

Sam Jimmy Mann, formerly police chief of a small hamlet called Kendleton in Fort Bend County, Texas, was convicted last week of extorting m...

Doc Berman at Sentencing Law and Policy refers us to bellwether stories from California and Arizona about how long prison sentences are b...

This is one of those stories that helps explain why so many of those statues of Lady Justice with the blindfold and scales always seem to sh...

Millions of Americans had their personal identity information stolen or lost in the last few months from a handful of government and corpora...

Somehow I'd missed when the U.S. House earlier this month approved a 44% cut to the federal Byrne grant program that finances Texas'...

Governor Rick Perry apparently thinks Texas' overincarceration crisis will go away if he ignores it, but local officials must still mana...