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"2010 Is Sure To Be A Doozy"
In case you haven't noticed, there is troubling brewing in the Republican party. As I have said all along, the tea parties were not just about Obama, the Democrats, and the overreaching and over spending of government. It was also about the Republican party.
Harris County Tax Office Vindicated, but TDP and Houston Chronicle Spin It Otherwise
In the settlement, representatives of the Tax Assessor-Collector’s Office admitted no wrongdoing, and fundamentally changed nothing about its operations. Nonetheless, the TDP claimed a victory, and the Houston Chronicle today praised the non-decision in an editorial.
Born Alive - And Living To Tell
On Thursday night, Jessen – now 32 years old – told her story to a giant crowd of pro-life activists, politicians and Christian leaders at the annual Texas Alliance for Life fundraising banquet.
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Empathy and the Health Care Debate
This week, we received an email from a reader named “Calvin” suggesting that we need more empathy in our health care system. And if individuals do not show empathy, the reader suggests, then government should step in.
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Health Care Reform - What It Means For Texas
The U.S. Senate Finance Committee today approved a stripped-down health care reform plan on a mostly party-line vote, and even though the bill will likely get a huge makeover in the full Senate, some Texas policy groups are saying the pared-down bill will still be bad for the Lone Star State.
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Who Really Is Taking Care of Business?
The Texas Association of Business released its 2009 scorecard of the Texas Legislature. The report, called For the Record, tracks eleven key votes to score Representatives and twelve for Texas Senators.
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Washington D.C. Summit Focuses on Conservative Grass Roots
“It was a great opportunity to get people to network and share ideas and learn more about policies and strategies to get them enacted,” said Peggy Venable, Texas’ AFP director, who led a delegation of over 60 Texas activists to D.C. for the two-day conference.
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Donald May - "Politicizing The War On Terror"
Rather than acting with courage and doing the right things in the War on Terror, President Barack Obama has chosen to follow the voices of his Far Left political base. As one would expect from a Progressive, war has again been politicized just as health care, education, and welfare.
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Big Endorsement Livens Up Governor’s Race
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison today picked up a giant endorsement in the race for Texas Governor, but Gov. Rick Perry still leads by far in that category.
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Dallas Judge Throws Out Gay-Marriage Ban
A Dallas District Judge today ruled the state’s ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional. Ruling in a case of two gay men married outside of Texas seeking a divorce, state District Judge Tena Callahan ruled that the ban, enacted by the voters of Texas four years ago violates the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under law.
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Texas History: Settling West Texas - The Red River War, Part I
The Red River War commenced after the failed 1867 Treaty of Medicine Lodge and the “Quaker Peace Policy.” Under this policy, Indians were to remain on reservations overseen by Quaker missionaries in exchange for rations and security provided by the federal government. The policy was a complete disaster.
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Lone Star Report: Tina Benkiser Shocks SREC Members in Becoming Senior Advisor to Perry Campaign
In her speech, and in a subsequent interview with LSR, Benkiser went into more detail about her decision and why she made it. Here are a few answers to questions that haved been frequently asked about today’s events.
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Give Me A Break
John Stossel, whose investigative reporting on consumer issues turned him from an opponent of big business to a free market aficionado, spoke before a crowd of hundreds of legislators, policy wonks and ordinary people at an event sponsored by the Texas Public Policy Foundation in Austin.
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