by PhilFountain | May. 27, 2010 | State
Texas Democrats are continuing their march to bring full-scale casino gambling to the Lone Star State. In a recent article, Empower Texans discussed whether casino gambling would be a “no-new-taxes” proposition. Since it’s clear there will be a concentrated effort to...
by Pratt on Texas | May. 26, 2010 | State
I believe I was among the first to notice a specific War on Texas, as I termed it, from the Obama Administration. Just after the Leftist ideologue took office, various Federal regulatory agencies began to descend upon Texas. At first these raids on Texas only made...
by PhilFountain | May. 26, 2010 | Local
The City of Grapevine, in North Texas, recently hired a lobby firm, Solutions for Local Control, LLC, to assist “in developing political and legislative strategies.” Behind the firm is mainly one individual, former state Rep. Fred Hill (R-Richardson), who scored only...
by Michael Quinn Sullivan | May. 26, 2010 | State
Transparency is good policy, on its face. Given how much taxpayers are charged for the cost of government, we should get a chance to view the receipt. Texas has led the nation in state-level expenditure transparency, and Comptroller Susan Combs reports the savings...
by PhilFountain | May. 25, 2010 | State
Last week Bill White, the Democratic candidate for governor, issued a press release on the state of public education in Texas. His campaign quoted an Empower Texans critique that “Texas taxpayers are ‘not getting our money’s worth’ in...
by Michael Quinn Sullivan | May. 24, 2010 | State
Legislative liberals are howling like scorned lovers over the appointment of Republican State Rep. Larry Taylor to the Sunset Commission. The Democratic Caucus is indignant, saying House Speaker Joe Straus isn’t providing the “inclusiveness” and...
by Fernando Trevino | May. 23, 2010 | Local
Out here on the border, in Val Verde County, there will be what could be a major “vote harvesting” trial coming up. “Vote harvesting” is nothing new, but what gives this trial the potential to be large is that it has already led to the...
by Fernando Trevino | May. 23, 2010 | Local
You know, I had a lot of respect for Debra Medina. She really ran an impressive grassroots campaign for Governor, but then she goes and does something ridiculous and I can’t keep my mouth shut. Earlier this week the Republican Party of Texas denied Mrs....
by Pratt on Texas | May. 22, 2010 | Local
It would be hilarious if it were not so irritating and costly to West Texas: Once again, even after primary elections have passed, we find the opinion page at the Lubbock Mudslide filled with lament about how the area will suffer by having three freshman state reps....
by David Smith | May. 21, 2010 | Federal, State
In part two of this series we discussed the childishness of socialism. It’s also deadly. The Soviet Union showed us that strong poison kills quickly. Greece is showing us that diluted poison kills less quickly, but kills nonetheless. The Obama Administration is...
by PhilFountain | May. 20, 2010 | State
This week, the Texas AFL-CIO held a press conference to offer Gov. Rick Perry, and the First Lady of Texas, use of a “single-wide” manufactured home they had hauled to their parking lot and placed on cinder blocks in downtown Austin. While reasonable...
by Michele Samuelson | May. 19, 2010 | State
Despite recent claims to the contrary, HD 45 erstwhile Democratic representative is no friend to Texas taxpayers or Texas business. And yes, it’s true – Speaker Joe Straus, a Republican from San Antonio, lent his name and presence to a fundraiser for Rose...
by David Smith | May. 19, 2010 | Federal
In part one of this series we discussed European socialism, Marxism’s second try, bribing people out of their freedom. Franklin D. Roosevelt took advantage of a scared American populace in the 1930’s to do just that. FDR was shrewd, though. Even though his...
by Michael Quinn Sullivan | May. 19, 2010 | Local
As we close out this school year, taxpayers may wonder want kind of bang we’re getting for our educational buck. Texans now spend more than $11,000 per year on public education – with less than half going toward instructional expenses. In the 2008-2009 school...
by PhilFountain | May. 18, 2010 | State
Former Republican state Sen. David Sibley is in a runoff election to get back his old job in the Texas Senate. But there’s a problem. After he left office in 2003, to become a lobbyist, he made a habit of contributing to very liberal Democrats. It’s not...
by Pratt on Texas | May. 17, 2010 | Federal
Last week there was a leaked Texas Department of Public Safety memo related to border security and the safety of Texans. Also we saw a report from the Rio Grande Valley on KRGV detailing how “Middle Easterners, some with ties to Islamic terrorism,” are paying big...
by David Smith | May. 17, 2010 | Federal
Full-fledged communism failed first. The genuine, undiluted article sank the Soviet Union in 1991 and vindicated generations of capitalist, freedom-loving people who had hated communism from the start. Still, it’s important to remember, capitalists were on the ropes...
by PhilFountain | May. 17, 2010 | State
In what The Houston Chronicle described as an “unusual appearance,” Texas’ House Speaker, Joe Straus (R-San Antonio), gave public guidance to the Appropriations Committee last week to prepare a “no-new-taxes” state budget. This was welcomed...
by Michael Quinn Sullivan | May. 14, 2010 | State
State Rep. Leo Berman called Empower Texans today with great news: Texas’ Attorney General, Greg Abbott, has issued an opinion today preventing school districts from diverting pay checks into political action committees. This is great news for conservatives in Texas....
by PhilFountain | May. 14, 2010 | Federal
As dean of the Harvard Law School, President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, attempted to block military recruiters from the campus, but only relented when the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government could withhold millions of dollars of funding to...
