Doubt Is Cast On McNamee's Story

A lawyer for Roger Clemens said Saturday the pitcher can prove he didn't attend a June 1998 party at Jose Canseco's home described by Brian McNamee in the Mitchell Report.

According to McNamee, Clemens first raised the subject of steroids not long after McNamee saw Canseco and Clemens meeting during the party.

Clemens' side has turned over evidence to congressional investigators, including an affidavit from Canseco, to support that the pitcher wasn't present at Canseco's home that day, the attorney, Rusty Hardin, said in a telephone interview with the Associated Press.

Hardin said video footage from telecasts of baseball games around the time of the party also were given to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. In the telecasts, Hardin said, TV announcers can be heard discussing Canseco's party and noting that Clemens wasn't there.

Are Brian McNamee Allegations True?

Brian McNamee told congressional investigators he injected Roger Clemens’ wife with human growth hormone as she prepared for a Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition photo session five years ago, the New York Daily News reported Friday.

McNamee testified during his Capitol Hill deposition on Thursday that he injected Debbie Clemens at her husband’s direction, the News said on its Web site, citing an unidentified Washington source.

The pitcher was in Washington to meet with congressmen for a second straight day, but his lawyer didn't waste any time responding.

Chuck Rosenthal's Legal Bills

Have you ever wondered who was paying DA's Chuck Rosenthal's legal bills for his contempt charges? Well, wonder no more; it's you.

District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal has hired former U.S. Attorney Ron Woods to represent him while the Texas attorney general investigates whether Rosenthal broke the law by using his county computer for political campaigning.

County taxpayers, meanwhile, are paying for other lawyers to defend Rosenthal from an effort to have him held in criminal contempt for deleting e-mail that had been subpoenaed for a civil lawsuit.

Woods' confirmation that he is now working for Rosenthal comes almost a week after attorneys for the county's top prosecutor halted a contempt hearing in which Rosenthal admitted making erroneous statements in a sworn affidavit about deleting several hundred e-mails.

What do you think about the taxpayers paying for Chuck Rosenthal's defense?

Kroger Offers Low Cost Generics

The grocery store chain Kroger has decided to offer low cost prescription drugs to its customers:

Kroger rolled out a program on Wednesday across the Southwest, including its 102 area stores with pharmacies, offering 30-day supplies of 300 generic medicines for $4. Generic versions of oral contraceptives Ortho Cyclen and Ortho Tri Cyclen, as well as one fertility drug, will cost $9.

Now Kroger will be more like Wal-mart and others in this highly competitive field of offering the lowest cost on prescription drugs.

Houston Agency Administer Housing Assistance

A small, Houston-based agency with 25 employees has been chosen to administer housing assistance for about 11,000 families around the country who were displaced by hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

The Harris County Housing Authority will pay rent and provide social services to about 6,000 families in the Houston area, 4,000 in New Orleans and neighboring St. Bernard Parish and about 1,000 more families in 37 states, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development officials said Tuesday.

This represents more than one-third of the roughly 30,000 families enrolled nationally in HUD's Disaster Housing Assistance Program, or DHAP.

The HUD program, which began Dec. 1, will require participating families to make gradually escalating payments toward their rent starting in March until the program ends in March 2009. It will provide case management and counseling services to help evacuees find jobs and take other steps to rebuild their lives.

Siegler Wants Chuck Rosenthal To Resign

Kelly Siegler, an assistant prosecutor, has joined the go Chuck go bandwagon. Although she hopes to replace Chuck Rosenthal, she has recognized that he is bad for the district attorney's office. Here are some recent statements she made about old "Chucky Boy":

Rosenthal “has made a lot of serious mistakes. Everybody here knows that; everybody in my office knows that,”. It's sad. It's tragic. And it's time for Chuck to resign.

“He's also my friend. He's not a bad man. He needs to go.”

“But do you really think that Chuck Rosenthal is me?” she asked. “And if you could only know how many conversations I have had with him to try to get him to do things differently or to listen. The problem is, Chuck quit listening to all of us a long time ago.”

Perhaps the only thing Chuck Rosenthal would hear is being found guilty for tampering with evidence and perjury. Sometimes it takes a tough strong message of impending prison time to get someone like him to listen.

Let's Pray For Texas Investigators Who Will Question The 'Baby Killer'

Every time I hear or read about this story, it just makes me sick to my stomach. I cannot fathom the psyche of an individual who would kill their own infant son. My prayers are with those Texas investigators who will question Travis Mullis in Philadelphia. After all, they re human, and it will be such a daunting task to talk to this man:

Mullis, 21, known as “T.J.,” surrendered to Philadelphia police Friday, telling them he placed the 3-month-old baby on the ground and then stomped on his head three or four times until he felt the skull collapsing, Trevino said.

Mullis has been charged with capital murder in Galveston and his bond has been set at $1 million. He also has a felony charge out of nearby Brazoria County of enticing a child. Alvin police are investigating an allegation that Mullis took an 8-year-old girl from her bed in January, took her to a school or park and asked her to remove her pants.

I hope no one else was involved with this horrendous murder and my prayers go out to this precious child's family. May he rest in peace.

Texas Illegal Immigrant Problem

There is a huge number of illegal immigrants in the state of Texas. This large influx is due to tougher laws to curb illegal immigration in Oklahoma and Arizona.

The Oklahoma statute, which took effect in November, makes it a crime to transport, harbor or hire illegal immigrants. Effective Jan. 1, the Arizona law suspends the business license of employers who knowingly hire undocumented workers. On a second offense, the license is revoked.

If Texas enacted tougher laws, I am sure they would see illegal immigrants fleeing Texas.

Chuck Rosenthal Admits To Deleting Email Messages

The embattled Harris County district attorney admitted before a federal judge here Friday that in violation of two subpoenas and a court order, he deleted as many as 3,500 e-mail messages sought in a civil rights lawsuit. He said he thought the messages were available on backup files.

Appearing at a contempt hearing in Federal District Court, the district attorney, Charles A. Rosenthal Jr., appeared to open himself to possible perjury charges by acknowledging that in earlier sworn testimony he had provided false information about how he deleted some messages. He called his earlier testimony “an error.”

What Will Happen To Chuck Rosenthal?

Harris County District Attorney, Chuck Rosenthal could be fined or jailed if U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt finds him in contempt of court. He did not testify Thursday but was expected to take the stand when the hearing resumed Friday. He declined to comment as he left the courtroom.

An attorney handling a civil rights lawsuit against the Harris County Sheriff's Department had requested all the e-mails Rosenthal sent and received between July and mid-October.

Rosenthal has handed over more than 1,500 e-mails that remained on his computer or were recovered. Hoyt released a batch of them in early January, including messages that contained pornographic, racist and political messages. Love notes between the married prosecutor and his secretary also were mistakenly released and then resealed.