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Texas gambling industry and Mexican drug cartels
The Texas horseracing industry has given Texans another reason to oppose gambling expansion, as the brother of two Zeta cartel kingpins was sentenced to 20 years in prison for using the horseracing...
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No, thanks
Thomas Ratliff, desperate to find a way to spin the ugly CSCOPE fiasco he sits at the center of, wrote a press release claiming parents must not care about CSCOPE if they aren’t using their money,...
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Texas Tribune – guardians of the Texas trough
Corrupt members of the Texas ruling class, including the Texas Tribune, have been targeting UT Regent Wallace Hall for trying to limit influence peddling in Austin. Hall has recently disclosed...
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Feel good and work harder, Texans
Grassroots Texans should be very encouraged. Paul Burka and Bud Kennedy are moaning about Texans rising up and demanding common sense be applied to government. Theirs is the song of the embittered...
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Flynn’s committee breaking the rules to silence Hall
Dan Flynn’s House Select Committee is breaking its own rules in order to deny persecuted UT Regent Wallace Hall his right to cross-examine witnesses the government brings against him. House Rule 4,...
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Schaefer has a lobbyist challenger
Matt Schaefer (R-Tyler) is being challenged by an ex-lobbyist named Skip Ogle who has donated to Democrats in the past. Schaefer courageously and vocally opposed the moderate liberal Speaker Joe Straus...
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TX Dems show weakness, establishment GOP stupidity
The newest move by the Texas Democratic Party is a laugher, but one with strong teaching power. The party responsible for over 55 million dead babies now wants to take the “party of life” tag from the...
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Methadone
To say western government is mortally hooked on spending is true, but not as true as another statement: western government is hooked on power, growing government-granted fiefdoms is how power is...
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The Jackass Patrol
The Obama donkeys are in Texas under the name “Battleground Texas”, aka “The Jackass Patrol”, and their tricks are as tired as a jumped-the-shark President. Their game is to fashion attacks out of what...
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Makin’ hay while the sun shines
The establishment narratives in Texas have been fired out of their potato guns, and aren’t any more compelling than they’ve been in recent years. For instance, Quorum Report reported as bad news for...
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Smart local control/dumb local control
The assumption that ‘local control’ is automatically good has helped make our state debt a very dangerous embarrassment. The reason is not complicated – bond elections are practically a slam dunk for...
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Texas 2 – Wendy Davis 0
A campaign spokesman for Wendy Davis said that her description of herself, a radical pro-abortion candidate, as “pro-life” was “taken out of context.” Of course, this was after she was hammered for...
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Power bias in media
The Columbia Journalism Review got into the media bias measurement game, finding a pro-surveillance bias in coverage of NSA surveillance. Despite this, the nation is overwhelmingly against the NSA...
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TREPAC’s insider-liberal money
Texas Real Estate PAC (TREPAC) is backing a pro-income tax Democrat named Celia Israel in the House District 50 (north Travis County) special election run-off with Republican Mike VanDeWalle. During...
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TX’s fraudulent political media
We at AgendaWise spend time and effort pointing out that the mainstream media is manipulative and corrupt, and often acts more like the departments of propaganda we associate with nazi or communist...
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Media stymied by O’Keefe
It seems the left is having trouble spinning James O’Keefe again. One trial balloon reaction to the Texas media blackout of the Navigators scandal is that James O’Keefe is an unreliable source. This...
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Abbott takes first step against tax-funded lobbying
Gubernatorial candidate Attorney General Greg Abbott has come out against tax-funded lobbying in the case of school districts, their boards, or their associations. This is an excellent step in the...
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GOP consultant scorecard
The primary election is only months away and Texans need to evaluate candidates. With words and promises clouding the picture, it can be difficult to get a clear read on candidates, most of all when...
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TLR gives 9x more to “Fs” than “As”
Texans for Lawsuit Reform spends millions on candidates who harm the agenda of conservatives in the state of Texas, a review of Texas Ethics Commission data reveals. In 2012 TLR gave just 3% to...
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YCT gold
The would-be hysteria drummed up by the ruling class over YCT’s illegal immigrant round-up publicity stunt is predictable and quite funny. First, it is a sad state of affairs when law enforcement has...
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