Stratergy

The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with… oh, the heck with it. We now take you to the Lone Star State. The victim of an armed home invasion in Houston has turned the tables on the brazen intruders after they stuffed him into a closet that [...]

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An educational field trip, if you will.

As I mentioned earlier this week, President Obama is visiting Texas today to mark the beginning of yet another of his (now infamous) “pivots” to jobs and the economy, talking up all of the reasons why the government needs to do more to “stimulate” the economy so we can keep spending and centrally planning our [...]

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Oh joy, rapture.

Just what we’ve all been waiting for! At last, yet another pivot to “jobs,” because every other time President Obama has gone out campaigning — oops, I meant, jobs-touring — he’s been so effective at producing wonderful, real-world economic results, and definitely not merely creating an opportunity to air his many grievances about those obstructionist [...]

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Contender.

In my short tenure, my focus has been — and will remain — on two things: fighting for conservative principles in the Senate, and working to help elect strong conservatives to win a majority in the Senate in 2014. The Senate is the battlefield to defend liberty. I was elected because thousands of grassroots conservatives [...]

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Appreciation.

It has become an awkward ritual of the modern presidency that the current occupant of the Oval Office is called upon to deliver a generous historical judgment of the previous one. With the opening of each new presidential library, the members of the world’s most exclusive fraternity put aside partisan differences to honor the shared [...]

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Spot the news!

Look, I’m happy to talk about the different approaches Fox and MSNBC took to the gun debate. Frankly, I think it reflects quite well on Fox, as New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter’s complaint against Fox illustrates. Fox is usually accused by other media sources of cheerleading for a conservative cause, but in this [...]

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Inferno.

First came the fire, then the blast. Assuming the EMS reports are correct, a terror attack on U.S. soil is responsible for only the second-largest mass-casualty event this week. Dwell on that. Unbelievable: West EMS Director Dr. George Smith says as many as 60 or 70 people died and hundreds were injured Wednesday night in [...]

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"Come on down!"

Last week, Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy signed into law what advocacy groups are heralding as the strictest gun limits in the nation, including measures that expand the state’s list of banned ‘assault’ weapons and restrict magazine capacities to ten rounds — and it didn’t take long for one of Connecticut’s gun manufacturers to follow suit [...]

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Six of which are in...

I’m starting to think that President Obama should probably drop Gov. Rick Perry and some other red-state governors a quick thank-you note for contributing more than their “fair share” to this economic “recovery” we’re in. As Ed summarized last week, final fourth quarter GDP growth came in at 0.4 percent with overall 2012 GDP growth [...]

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Yeehaw!

Aw heck, it’s been a slow day and it’s kinda’ fun, so why not? Stopping in for what the Bush family no doubt thought would just be a routine photo op at the Texas A&M Bush School of Government and Public Service on March 1st (the school apparently withheld the video until yesterday), the 41st [...]

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Trends.

California Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration yucked it up when Texas Gov. Rick Perry offered an open invitation to California companies to come on down and check out the Lone Star state’s business climate, chiding that maybe Texas should devote a little more of their time and resources to fixing their own domestic troubles and claiming [...]

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“If she’s the nominee, I would say that this is a ‘lean Republican’ state but not a ‘solid Republican’ state.”

Look on the bright side: She might not run. In which case we won’t have to worry about Texas imposing a Democratic stranglehold on the White House for the foreseeable future until, oh, 2024 or so. Or maybe 2020? Much depends on the time frame for that path to citizenship that Schumer, McCain, Rubio, et [...]

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Identity.

They’d be attacking him no matter what just because he’s a rising star from the other party, but yes, of course it’s true that a rising star who’s Latino complicates Democratic plans for a permanent majority in a way that some other Republican wouldn’t. (In theory. At this very early moment, Rubio’s favorable rating among [...]

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Shots fired.

I love federalism. Which is to say, really, that I love competition. When states, like businesses, compete for their desired goals in a free-market scenario, everybody wins in the long run, because the policies that really work and appeal to the most people will come out on top. Texas and California are often compared as [...]

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Giving back.

On the (all-too-rare, harumph) occasion that a particular state ends up with a budget surplus, that state might use the leftover money to pay down debt, add cushion to a rainy day fund, put down payments on infrastructure projects, and etcetera. Several GOP governors are currently looking into their respective states’ tax codes and revenue [...]

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Federalism.

While we all wait with bated breath for President Obama to figure out if he wants to be more or less of a stickler on domestic energy production, i.e. as he dithers at the fork in the road of letting the economy do what it does best and take fuller advantage of our abundant energy [...]

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Don't mess.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), an international organization that works with the United Nations and takes it upon itself to promote the causes of human rights, freedom, and fair elections, has often monitored the election processes in various countries — and in horribly corrupt and even violent places like Sudan or [...]

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Tracking for dollars

Is this a story of the nanny state gone (further) awry, a community ensuring the safety of at risk children, or just a group of bureaucrats trying to glam onto some extra cash? The San Antonio Times brings us the story of a school district which will begin “tracking” students in middle and high school [...]

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and Texas

There were so many great speeches and moments at the convention last night that we couldn’t get to them all. One of the speakers will be no stranger to grassroots activists in conservative circles… Ted Cruz, the man who will almost certainly be the next Senator from Texas. But for all the fame and following [...]

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Al Armendariz's first interview

Al Armendariz’s big mouth cost him his job as a regional administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Now that he’s working for the Sierra Club, Armendariz appears even more opinionated about the industry he once regulated. In his first comments since resigning from EPA in April, Armendariz unloaded on the coal industry, called President Obama [...]

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Another NY Times columnist who needs to get out more.

In her column today, New York Times author Gail Collins launched into a tirade against Ted Cruz, the Tea Party, and Republican (especially Texas) voters in general. While Collins’ disdain for conservatives is no surprise — her February 8 column against the Catholic Church’s position on the contraception/abortifacient/sterilization mandate was similarly caustic — this piece [...]

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So much better than the Beltway...

Over the last eight days I have traveled throughout Texas with the Tea Party Express (TPE) in order to help Ted Cruz beat David Dewhurst in the Texas GOP Senate primary. During the trip I got to meet Cruz, Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), Sarah Palin, Representative Michael Burgess (R-TX), and dozens of Texas Tea Partiers. [...]

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Tea time.

Polls close at 8 p.m. ET. Two months ago, PPP had Dewhurst leading — by 25 points. As of yesterday, Cruz leads by 10 and is poised for arguably the most momentous upset in the brief but successful history of grassroots conservative challenges. How’d he do it? Not so much with sharp policy differences (although [...]

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Tea time.

Despite being outspent more than 3-to-1, having never run for office and being tasked with penetrating the Lone Star State’s 20 media markets with virtually zero name recognition, Cruz is well positioned to upset Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst Tuesday. It’s a scenario that would send shockwaves through the political elite and embolden the thousands of [...]

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Texas toast?

The predicted tight race in the Republican runoff for the open US Senate seat in Texas may never appear.  According to a new PPP poll on the eve of the election, conservative favorite Ted Cruz has a ten-point lead over Lt. Governor David Dewhurst.  If Dewhurst is Texas toast, he can thank Texas tea: PPP’s [...]

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