Texas Republican Liberty Caucus Compiling Perry Dossier
As the newest entrant into the GOP presidential race, Texas Governor Rick Perry is finding some tough sledding in the early going — from a group of Republicans in...
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Rick Perry and the Largest Tax Hike In Texas
In Rick Perry’s August 13 presidential announcement speech in South Carolina the Texas Governor (photo at left) stated: .…we have led Texas based on some just really pretty simple...
GOP Presidential Candidate Rick Perry
After much networking, private fundraising, and even some preliminary campaign staffing, Texas Governor Rick Perry finally tossed his Stetson into the GOP 2012 presidential ring on August 13, the...
Texas Gov. Rick Perry Now Running for President
Texas Governor Rick Perry announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for President of the United States at a RedState bloggers gathering in Charleston, South Carolina, on Saturday. The...
“The Help” — A Review
Kathryn Stockett could not have written The Help 50 years ago. Which is the point of the story. But the Jackson, Mississippi, native has joined Margaret Mitchell, Harper Lee,...
Rick Perry China’s New Best Friend?
With Texas Governor Rick Perry expected to make an "announcement" on Saturday at a conservative conference in South Carolina, scrutiny of his record is more important than ever —...
Texas Corridor Developer In Danger of Default?
Texas woes regarding the Trans Texas Corridor (TTC) may be getting even worse. Ever since the State partnered with Madrid-based Cintra, to build the wildly unpopular mid-continent trade corridor,...
Rick Perry and the Texas Enterprise Fund
For some time conservative Texans, especially constitutionalists, have raised eyebrows at Rick Perry’s Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF). The Texas Governor’s website calls the fund a “development tool” providing the state’s...
Gov. Rick Perry: Rhetoric, Record on Immigration
As Democrat-turned-Republican Texas Governor Rick Perry continues to tease Americans with “will he or won’t he?” run for President, many Lone Star State voters are taking a closer look...
ATF to Investigate Purchasers of Two or More Rifles in Five-day Period
Two weeks ago, concerned about news reports that President Obama would order the investigation of citizens buying two or more rifles at a time, a licensed Texas gun dealer...
U.S./Mexican Border Violence Continues: Another American Murdered
According to Borderland Beat (BB) of July 21, a “puzzling web of events” has resulted in the death of yet another American in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez,...
Tiny Alto, Texas, Not the First to Mothball Its Police Dept
The city council of tiny Alto, Texas — population 1,200, about 140 miles southeast of Dallas — shuttered its police department on June 15 because of a budget shortfall....
Anti-TSA Groping Bill Fails in Texas
Texans around the state, and other Americans who have followed the travails of passing an anti-TSA groping bill in Texas this year, were stunned and disheartened when the Lone...
Texans Still Fighting for Traveler Dignity Anti-TSA Bill May Pass
Texans in support of the exceedingly popular anti-TSA groping bill, which garnered national attention, experienced yet another harried ascent on the roller-coaster that has been the bill’s life in...
Texas Anti-TSA Groping Bill Halted in House; Alive in Senate
Those paying attention to recent events in the Texas Legislature know that a battle royal has been raging for weeks over the Travelers' Dignity Act, the anti-TSA groping bill...