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Neal Adams: Tarrant County’s Moderate Puppeteer

State Rep. Jonathan Stickland didn’t toe the grow-government line this session. He voted against a bloated budget that increased session-to-session spending 26.9% and a myriad of liberal policies. That sort of leadership earned him praise from conservatives, and a...

Lubbock Establishment Runs Tax Raiser Against Rep. Charles Perry

Is the Lubbock establishment challenging conservative Rep. Charles Perry because he won't raise taxes? This spring Perry was approached by members of the Lubbock chamber of commerce connected with "Imagine Lubbock Together." They were seeking special legislation to...

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Debra Medina: Comptroller Candidate, Straus Supporter

After months of speculation that she might run for office, Debra Medina – who finished in third place in the race for the Republican nomination for Governor in 2010 – threw her hat in the ring for Comptroller. Her bid had been the subject of much speculation,...

Freedom’s Unlikely Enemy

The free society has many adversaries hell bent on discrediting it.  The most pervasive examples are found in government institutions, political circles, academia and media outlets.  Arguments against freedom are fundamentally based on the fallacy that a select group...

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Terribly Liberal Republicans

As we have come to expect, advocates of big-spending corporate cronyism are rushing to the aid of liberal Republicans. They may have succeeded in the past, but taxpayers won’t be fooled again. A new group called “Texas Future Business Alliance” is mailing into the...

Government Feeding Frenzy

If all you watched were national news networks, you’d be led to believe that, in the absence of hundreds of federal bureaucracies planning your life, America would be reduced to anarchy. The facts suggest otherwise…Texans live under countless layers of local...

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How Out of Touch is Sen. John Carona?

John Carona has been in Austin for a long time. He was first elected to office in 1990. But how out of touch with his district is Carona, really? So out of touch that he put the wrong district map up on his Facebook profile. It is going to be very hard for Senator...

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Disappointing Attack

Yesterday, Texas Lt. Gov. candidate Todd Staples issued a press release misrepresenting the record of his opponent, Sen. Dan Patrick, on the Fiscal Responsibility Index. In 2007, Sen. Patrick voted against the bloated budget and had the fourth-highest rating of all 31...

A Good Steward…When Caught

Mireya Villareal, a CBS investigative journalist, recently uncovered an astonishing multi-million dollar abuse of funds by officials at the DFW International airport. In 2012, airport officials spent over $2.2 million on travel expenses to domestic and international...

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