Category Archives: Texas

Liveblogging the Texas Senate Debate Friday, April 13, 7 PM

I’m livebloggiong the debate here. This is announcement that I will be attempting to liveblog the Texas Senate debate happening this Friday, April 13, at 7 PM CDT. Some of the things I’ll be looking at most keenly: David Dewhurst’s … Continue reading →

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Some Texas Counties Have More Registered Voters Than Vote-Eligable Citizens

According to this article in the Houston Chronicle, “Sixteen small counties across Texas appear to have more registered voters on their rolls as of 2010 than qualified citizens of voting age.” In a completely unrelated story, the Obama Administration opposes … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for April 9, 2012

A LinkSwarm to start your day with: Today’s Democrat calling her fellow Texans bigots comes to you from Rep. Donna Howard (D-Austin). How the story of today’s media transformation is being written by the losers: “We should not expect anything … Continue reading →

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Texas Senate Race Update for April 5, 2012

Expect things to be a little slow for the Easter weekend: Ted Cruz appeared on Fox 26 in Houston: Cruz got attacked by Progress Texas for advertising on Rush Limbaugh. So Cruz reaches conservative listeners and gets liberals to attack … Continue reading →

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More Support for the “Rick Perry Hopped Up on Goofballs” Theory

After Rick Perry’s disastrous fall campaign, I floated the idea that he was still hopped up on goofballs (i.e, taking serious pain medication) following his back operation. Well now comes word that there’s at least some supporting evidence in the … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for March 30, 2012 (Including More ObamaCare Hearings Fallout)

A few nuggets of insight before you head off for the weekend: ObamaCare is bad already, but it’s going to get a lot worse. Why ObamaCare can’t work: “It is a perverse but very real fact of life that the … Continue reading →

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Texas Senate Race Update for March 29, 2012

Ted Cruz won the endorsement of Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn, which is a terrific pickup for him. He joins Jim DeMint and Rand Paul among sitting conservative Republican senators who have endorsed Cruz. Cruz appeared (again) on the Mark Levin … Continue reading →

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Interview With Texas Senate Candidate Craig James

After much back and forth with his campaign trying to find a date, I was finally able to interview Texas Senate candidate Craig James on March 21 at the Rudy’s on South 360 here in Austin. This was, alas, not … Continue reading →

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Texas Wins Another Round Against the EPA

Texas wins another skirmish in the war the EPA is waging against the state’s prosperity, this one over “minor pollutants.” The EPA was suppose to file any objection to the state’s plans within 18 months, but instead, displaying the lightning … Continue reading →

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Interview With Mario Loyola on the Constitutionality of ObamaCare

Given his background as both Solicitor General and a former fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation‘s Center for Tenth Amendment Studies, I was hoping to provide a mini-interview with Ted Cruz on the constitutional issues surrounding ObamaCare, but so … Continue reading →

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