Texas Voter ID “Clown Show”
A bit late, I post this tremendous account by Christian Adams of the almost criminally incompetent (and ideologically nuts) Justice Department behavior in a key trial over Texas’ voter-ID law. Amazing...
View Article35,000 People Want Texas to Secede
A story in the Houston Chronicle on being careful what you wish for: When the White House promised that any online petition getting more than 25,000 signatures would get a thorough review and an...
View ArticleTexas’ Ted Cruz in the Mix for 2016?
Politico excerpts some of an intriguing speech by U.S. Senator-Elect Ted Cruz (R-TX) to a conservative audience last night in Washington, D.C.: While the 41-year-old Cuban-American warned that...
View ArticleMore on the Growing Charter School Movement
Nationwide, there are 5,277 charter schools serving 1.6 million K-12 students. But not all of them are urban minority, low-income students. Some serve suburban middle class families looking for an...
View ArticlePro-Texas Ad Campaign in Anti-Business Blue States
Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry is once again visiting Democratic strongholds in an attempt to lure businesses to relocate to the Lone Star State. Perry is set to meet with business groups in New...
View ArticleHolder Can’t Wait to Revive Stricken Piece of Voting Rights Act
Less than a month after the Supreme Court lifted an outdated “preclearance” formula off the backs of states like Texas, Eric Holder’s Justice Department is trying to reinstate the restrictions by...
View ArticleToyota Votes for Texas over California
Toyota is moving its U.S. headquarters from Torrance, CA to Plano, TX. The move is estimated to generate a combined $140 million annually in local property and sales taxes for the Dallas suburb. The...
View ArticleTexas Tea Party Knocks Off GOP Lt. Gov. in Run-Off
It’s been a tough two years for outgoing Texas Republican Lt. Governor David Dewhurst. First, he lost a bitter U.S. Senate primary fight to Ted Cruz in 2012, and yesterday he was blown out 64-36...
View ArticleTexas Not Turning Blue While Obama in State
President Barack Obama went to Texas this week, and all he got was a few million dollars in campaign donations amid a bipartisan smackdown. Obama was in the Lone Star State to help fundraise for...
View ArticleLaughable Indictment Could Actually Help Perry in 2016
Today, Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry had to suffer the indignity of turning himself into local law enforcement on absurd charges that he abused his office. The upshot is that this whole...
View ArticleTexas Launches 17-State Lawsuit Against Obama’s Immigration Amnesty
Hello, Greg Abbott! In my column this week I mention that Abbott, the newly elected Republican Governor of Texas, would file a lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama’s unilateral and...
View ArticleNow, 24 States Are Suing to Stop Obama’s Unilateral Amnesty
Nearly half of the States in America are now suing the Obama administration to stop the president’s unilateral and unconstitutional directive to grant temporary amnesty and work permits to as many as...
View ArticleObama’s Amnesty Program Halted for Failure to Follow the Rules
President Barack Obama seemingly loves to invite controversy and criticism for using executive discretion to rewrite or ignore federal law. He and his allies apparently believe that when critics say...
View ArticleGov. Abbott: 20,000 Crossed Texas Border Since January 1
It looks like the surge of illegal immigration across the southern border isn’t getting any better. “Already this calendar year, since January 1, we have had more than 20,000 people come across the...
View ArticleIs Obama’s Diva Status a Reason to Accelerate Amnesty Lawsuit?
Consider the following as an example of how much President Barack Obama and his administration think the rule of law should bend to suit their political calculations. The Justice Department asked a...
View ArticleFed Regs May Level Playing Field between California & Texas
Texas has long been held up as the free market alternative to California’s regulation-heavy approach to public policy. Companies like Raytheon and Toyota have relocated because of the cheaper price of...
View ArticleFifth Circuit Grants Fast-Track Appeal of Obama’s Amnesty Order
Mark your calendars because today the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the Obama administration’s plea to grant a fast-track appeal of a lower court decision blocking a controversial amnesty...
View ArticleObama Admin Also Pressuring Kansas, Tennessee to Expand Medicaid or Lose Funds
First Florida, then Texas, and now Kansas and Tennessee have been told by the Obama administration that unless they expand Medicaid under the rules laid out in ObamaCare the federal government will...
View ArticleWSJ News Item Debunks Leftists’ Anti-Texas Myth
Texas illustrates the real-world success of less government and free market principles, yet leftists like oft-discredited New York Times columnist Paul Krugman attempt to dismiss it as some sort of...
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