Politics and Policy:

Two more items I gotta mention before I get to studying…
• First, if you live in Texas… for everythign that is good and right, DO NOT vote for John Cornyn for US Senate. Cornyn as Texas AG actually argued that indigent criminal defendants facing the death penalty are not entitled to have their attorneys awake for the entire trial!! If Cornyn has this little respect for the Constitutional rights of the accused who are facing the death penalty, then he should NOT be a US Senator. US Senators should support American values. Cornyn does not.

  I implore you, vote for ABC — Anybody But Cornyn.

• Predictions and Commentary on Oklahoma elections from The Washington Post (Also, the WashPost’s coverage on Texas.