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Category Archives: Austin
Texas vs. California Update for December 17, 2014
Time for another Texas vs. California update: California’s unfunded health care obligations for retired employees hits $72 billion. (Hat tip: Pension Tsunami.) Meanwhile, the state comptroller says that California’s unfunded pension liabilities has hit $198 billion. (Ditto.) California may extend … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Border Control, Crime, Democrats, Texas, unions, Welfare State
Tagged amnesty, Austin, Border Controls, California, Conroe, Costa Mesa, Crime, Democrats, pension crisis, Texas, unions, Welfare State
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Guns and Crime Round for November 11, 2014
Veteran’s Day seems like a good time to have another gun and crime roundup. Includes some stuff held from before the election: In case you missed it, Eric Holder’s Justice Department performed a 65,000 page Fast and Furious document drop … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Crime, Democrats, Guns
Tagged Austin, Crime, Democrats, Eric Holder, Fast and Furious, Guns, Michael Bloomberg, Richard Overton, Washington
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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
Posted in Austin, Foreign Policy, Jihad, Media Watch, Military, Texas, Waste and Fraud, Welfare State
Tagged 2014 Election, Austin, Blaise Compaore, Burkina Faso, Democrats, Elections, Fatah, feminism, fraud, Gaza, Hamas, Jihad, Jonathan Chait, Koch Brothers, Manchester, Media, Military, Pakistan, Rotherham, Russia, sex offender, Texas, UK, Ukraine, waste, Wendy Davis
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Go Vote!
Williamson County voting information. Travis County polling locations. I hope to live tweet/live blog election results tonight.
Posted in Austin, Elections, Texas
Tagged 2014 Election, Austin, Elections, Texas, Travis County, Williamson County
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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
Posted in Austin, Democrats, Elections, Republicans, Texas
Tagged 2014 Election, 2014 Governor's Race, ACC, Austin, Austin City Council, Austin ISD, Democrats, Elections, Iowa, Louisiana, North Carolina, Republicans, Round Rock ISD, Texas, Wendy Davis
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Antonio Buehler Found Not Guilty
From the Austin legal beat, Antonio Buehler was found not guilty of refusing to obey a police officer’s instructions while filming an arrest on January 1st, 2012. Chalk up another small but real win for the right to monitor government … Continue reading
LinkSwarm for October 20, 2014
I was at a writer’s workshop this weekend, so it’s slow going getting back into the swing of things: Early voting in Texas starts today. Find your polling place here. ObamaCare is failing to control costs. Sure, it’s screwed over … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Democrats, Elections, Jihad, Media Watch, Military, Obama Scandals, ObamaCare, Texas
Tagged #GamerGate, 2014 Election, Aitazaz Hassan Bangash, Archer, Austin, black, Books, Bruce Braley, Democrats, Duke lacrosse case, Ebola, Elections, feminism, Holly Hansen, Houston, Iraq, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Jihad, Jimmy Carter, Jonah Goldberg, Kay Hagan, Marc Ellis, Military, MoveOn.org, Natalie Tennant, New York Times, Pakistan, PETA, Round Rock ISD, Steve Crowder, Syria, Texas, Tom Harkin, video
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Alternative to What? Evidently Profitability
Via Dwight comes word that alternative weekly the San Francisco Bay Guardian has ceased publication. Alternative weeklies used to have a market niche as carrier mediums of left-wing opinion, music gig listings and porn ads. The Internet has taken over … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Democrats, Media Watch
Tagged California, Democrats, Media Watch, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Guardian
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A Quick Look At Texas Migration Patterns
Will Franklin of WILLisms put up an interesting link on his Twitter feed: A PDF of Texas relocation data from the Texas Association of Realtors. There’s lots of interesting information to be gleaned: The 2014 Texas Relocation Report shows that … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Texas
Tagged California, Dallas, Harris County, population, Travis County, Williamson County
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Gun and Crime Roundup for September 23, 2014
Been a while since I did a roundup on gun news and examples of criminal stupidity, so here it is: Study shows that banning “assault weapons” has no effect on crime. The Missouri House and Senate override the veto of … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Crime, Guns, Media Watch, Texas
Tagged Austin, California, Crime, gun control, Guns, Houston, Media Watch, Nevada, New Jersey, New Jersey Star-Ledger, Pennsylvania, police, Texas
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