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Montford’s get-rich-quick grassroots tour
These past several months John Montford has been travelling the state, trying to circumvent the Texas legislature on the issue of gambling expansion. Texans keep stubbornly (and smartly) electing...
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Texas conservative responsibility
The conservative movement in Texas is alive and well. Sadly, 46 states are languishing in Obama’s America, with a loss of hope that can only be described as un-American. Hope has been maintained in...
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Burka’s Dewhurst beat
A panicky Paul Burka has taken to writing David Dewhurst’s political obituary with some regularity. Why he doesn’t just make it a weekly column on his blog is anyone’s guess. Burka does it because the...
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Political arms surrender?
In the Austin-American Statesman’s “First Reading” John Tilove gave us the first glimpse of the conservative play that is likely to be performed in the House throughout the 83rd Legislature. He labeled...
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Rep. Hunter creates new gambling caucus?
Texans should keep close tabs on their legislators regarding Rep. Todd Hunter’s new Texas Tourism Caucus and gambling expansion. Hunter, a key Straus ally, has been touting gambling expansion since the...
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The fight can be won, must be won
The Obama Administration has gotten socialized medicine and higher taxes, and now wants to disarm the citizenry. As if we needed a reminder, the GOP as-is has again proven to be a dummy opponent. Lucky...
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The House’s self-inflicted time-crunch
We are in the second week of the 83rd session and, not even counting weekends, legislators have had more days off than on. They worked Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday the first week, then Monday and...
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Reflections on conservatives’ bad start to the session, pt.1
There is one permanent fact that can make a legislators job much less confusing: politics has only two power sources; the lobby and voters. All political actors, including media and activists, derive...
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Obama’s Hunger Games politics
Patriotic governors have a chance to expose the dangerous games Obama is playing against Americans, and Texans in particular. The rap against Obama since the beginning is that he resents America as it...
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Gambling and battleground Texas
Last week Politico reported that Democrats have their hearts set on turning Texas blue. For conservatives who have been paying attention to the push for expanded gambling, this comes as no surprise....
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Reflections on conservatives’ bad start to the session pt. 2
Grassroots issues must be visible to pass, so they must be simple and urgent, and they require build-up. Urgency comes from widespread knowledge of the problem. A grassroots legislative push may...
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KLBJ covers for City of Austin insult
KLBJ online reported that the city of Austin is giving Robert Rodriguez’ Austin-based Troublemaker Studios $200,000 of taxpayer money. The city of Austin seems to be filling the hole created when the...
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Anti-conservative GOP PAC will make their bad candidates easy to spot
“Karl Rove declares war on conservatism” was a Sunday headline on Breitbart.com, the news site named for deceased conservative champion, Andrew Breitbart. It seems Karl Rove, the architect of Romney’s...
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Committee appointment blues
House committees were finally announced last week. Mike Hailey, a reporter with establishment ties in Austin, made a lot of predictions about the appointments which we will examine. Writing after the...
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Ruling class funtime (judges, and educrats, and ParentPACs, oh my!)
Two days ago Austin Democratic Judge John Dietz sided with Democrats in a decision that public schools need even more tax money. To make matters worse for taxpayers, there is still a legislative...
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Access for obedience
The conservative movement is full of people who care deeply about the long term health of their country, activists and politicians who get into politics out of a sense of duty. They don’t see politics,...
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Reflections on conservatives’ bad start to the session pt 3.
Moving forward Grassroots power derives from primaries. Providing a clear conservative contrast with moderates makes it easy for the in-district grassroots to help conservatives defeat moderates. It...
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Why would CSCOPE be allowed to stay?
On what basis should CSCOPE receive political support from government officials to stay in Texas classrooms, and profit from Texas taxpayers? CSCOPE has been exposed engaging in the worst educational...
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Speaker sends important gun bills to D-chaired committee
Today, the Speaker dealt a significant blow to two important conservative gun bills when he referred them to a committee chaired by a Democrat. One of them, a campus carry bill, could have easily been...
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Immigration peer pressure = GOP blame shifting
The GOP is revisiting its stance on immigration because the GOP establishment is in need of a scapegoat to hang their 2012 failure on. Whatever conservative issues you care about, and they are all on...
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