Category Archives: Texas

LinkSwarm for November 14, 2014

There’s been so many people offering up so much information on “GruberGate” that I assume anyone reading this blog has seen coverage of it already. The fact that Jonathan Gruber not only lied to the American voters he called “stupid” … Continue reading →

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Battleground Texas Pledges We’ll Be Able To Kick Them Around Some More in 2016

Battleground Texas says we’ll have it to kick around in 2016: The head of Battleground Texas is telling supporters that despite an Election Day-shellacking, the group plans to stay put for the next round of elections in 2016. In a … Continue reading →

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More Post-Election Tidbits

A few more bits of 2014 election analysis: Instapundit offers up six bills a Republican congress should pass. Can’t disagree with any of them. How the Obama years have hollowed out the Democratic Party. “The more serious problem for Democrats … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for November 7, 2014

A Friday LinkSwarm after a very eventful week… So exactly when was it that the UK became the child rape capital of the Western world? First Rotherham, now Manchester. Government of Burkina Faso falls. Evidently people there thought that 27 … Continue reading →

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Two Dissections of Democrats’ Failure to Turn Texas Blue

Enjoy these two moderately lengthy dissections of liberal failures to turn Texas blue: First, here’s this Jay Root/Texas Tribune piece by way of the Washington Post on why Wendy Davis lost the election. The piece soft-peddles Davis’ incompetence as a … Continue reading →

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Texas Statewide Race Oddities

With all the votes in, we can start analyzing some of odder aspects of the Texas statewide race results. For those watching the race, it’s no surprise that (discounting 2006’s strange four-way race) Wendy Davis was the worst-performing Democratic gubernatorial … Continue reading →

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Brief Blurbs on a Brilliant Bloodbath

Democrats didn’t just lose last night, they got slaughtered up and down the ballot: Republicans took control of the Senate, flipping seven Senate seats in North Carolina, West Virginia, Arkansas, South Dakota, Colorado, Montana, Iowa, giving them 52 and control … Continue reading →

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Go Vote!

Williamson County voting information. Travis County polling locations. I hope to live tweet/live blog election results tonight.

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Election News Roundup for November 3, 2014

Election day is tomorrow! Now would be a good time to locate your voter registration card… Democrats come up with a brilliant new strategy to get their voters to the polls: threaten them. And yes, that letter did actually come … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for October 31, 2014

Happy Halloween! This week’s example of Democratic elected official defrauding a non-profit comes to you from Philadelphia congressman Chaka Fattah. Democratic Representative Alan Grayson, the 17th richest man in congress, has cut off funds to estranged wife, and now both … Continue reading →

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