Joe Barton

All of the CPL schools will be represented at the state track meet this weekend. The LaCrosse and Macksville boys won regional titles at their respective Class 1A meets. Central Plains As the big school in the CPL, the Oiler track teams were the only...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Months before the futuristic glasses become publicly available, Google Glass is already getting scrutiny from Capitol Hill. Eight members of Congress on Thursday sent a letter to Google Chief Executive Larry Page to ask what his company...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Data brokers who collect vast amounts of information on Americans will be the ones turning over information this time. The Federal Trade Commission has ordered nine data brokerage companies to tell the agency how they harvest and use...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The prospect that thousands of drones could be patrolling U.S. skies by the end of this decade is raising the specter of a Big Brother government that peers into backyards and bedrooms. The worries began mostly on the political...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House’s solid bipartisan vote for a cybersecurity bill sends a message to the Senate: Now it’s your turn to act. Ignoring a White House veto threat, the House approved the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel today said that if asked, he will appear before a Congressional panel investigating the now-bankrupt solar power firm Solyndra. “Listen, if I’m called I’ll testify,” Emanuel said during an unrelated news...

A spending bill aimed at preventing a federal government shutdown would block enforcement of new energy-efficiency rules for light bulbs, letting old-style incandescent bulbs stay around a bit longer. The provision was a high priority of congressional...

Texas Rep. Joe Barton introduced a law to ban the BSC championship game and replace it with a playoff system to determine college football's national champion....

FOOTBALL LEGEND: The Governor of Colorado lost Pikes Peak to Texas in a football bet. Bets between politicians are a common tradition in the world of professional sports. Just this past year, before the Major League Baseball (MLB) World Series......

"If anything I said this morning has been misconstrued to the opposite effect, I want to apologize for that misconstruction." That was Texas Rep. Joe Barton's apology for an apology — his ridiculously noncommittal backpedaling after telling BP...