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Category Archives: Austin
Public Integrity Unit Oversight Removed From Travis County
Democrats won’t be able to launch partisan witch hunts against statewide Republican officeholders from the Travis County Prosecutor’s Office anymore, as Governor Greg Abbott has signed the bill stripping oversight of the statewide Public Integrity Unit from the Travis County … Continue reading
Gov. Abbott Signs Open and Campus Carry Bills
This afternoon, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed the Open Carry and Campus Carry bills into law at Red’s Indoor Range in Pflugerville. (I can tell you from experience that it’s hard enough to get a shooting lane at Red’s even … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Guns, Texas
Tagged Austin, campus carry, CHL, Guns, open carry, Pflugerville, Texas, Texas 84th Legislative Session
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Kroll Report Whitewashed Low LSAT Scores at UT Law
Remember the Kroll Report, the look into the University of Texas’ system of preferential admissions for unqualified friends and relatives of the well-connected? The one that showed UT Regent Wallace Hall was right and his critics were wrong? Now it … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Texas, Waste and Fraud
Tagged Austin, fraud, Jon Cassidy, Kroll Report, University of Texas, Wallace Hall
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Round Rock Bass Pro Shop Opened Today
Today at 6 PM was the grand opening for the new Bass Pro Shop in Round Rock. People who have shopped there assure me that this is a Really Big Deal. At first glance the gun prices don’t look great … Continue reading
LinkSwarm for May 5, 2015
Happy Cinco de Mayo! My efforts to move the LinkSwarm back to it’s usual Friday position by posting early have failed, so I’m trying to get it there by letting it drift back one day later each time… “Canadian Partnership … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Border Control, Communism, Crime, Democrats, Economics, Elections, Foreign Policy, Global Warming, Guns, Jihad, Media Watch, Military, ObamaCare, Regulation, Republicans, Social Justice Warriors, Texas, Uncategorized
Tagged 2016 Election, 2016 Presidential Race, Austin, Austin American Statesman, Ben Carson, Border Controls, Bosch Fawstin, Carly Fiorina, Charlie Hebdo, Clinton Foundation, Communism, Crime, Democrats, drug lords, Elections, Everytown for Gun Safety, Garland, Garland Shooting, genocide, gun control, Hewlett-Packard, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton Scandals, Holodomor, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Jalisco, Laurence Tribe, LinkSwarm, Media Watch, Mexico, Mike Huckabee, Military, New Generation drug cartel, ObamaCare, Regulation, Republicans, Russia, Texas, Ukraine, Yezidis
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Texas vs. California Update for April 24, 2015
Time for another Texas vs. California roundup: The Manhattan Institute has a new report out discussing how California’s pension spending is starting to crowd out essential services. (Hat tip: Pension Tsunami.) Austin is the number one city in the country … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Budget, Democrats, ObamaCare, unions, Waste and Fraud, Welfare State
Tagged Austin, California, Democrats, drought, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, Marin County, ObamaCare, pension crisis, Texas, unemployment, unions, University of California, waste, Welfare State
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Texas House Votes To Defang Runaway Travis County Public Integrity Unit
More good news from the Texas legislature: The Texas House has voted to remove jurisdiction over statewide elected and appointed officials from Travis County’s corrupt, partisan Public Integrity Unit. Instead, such investigations would be handled by the unimpeachable Texas Rangers … Continue reading
Wallace Hall Fires Back at Straus
After the grand jury failed to indict him, Wallace Hall fired back at Texas House Speaker Joe Straus: “The campaign by Speaker (Joe) Straus, Representative (Dan) Flynn and Senator (Kel) Seliger to criminalize my service as a Regent constitutes abuse … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Texas
Tagged Austin, Joe Straus, Jon Cassidy, Texas, University of Texas, Wallace Hall
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Grand Jury Declines to Indict Wallace Hall
That should be the headline as yet another establishment attempt to punish UT regent Wallace Hall for the crime of actually doing his job fails. Or, if you prefer: “Wallace Hall: More Honest Than a Ham Sandwich.” But chances are … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Texas
Tagged Bill Powers, Texas, Travis County, University of Texas, Wallace Hall
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