The death of Nancy Reagan ended an era and is a reminder of a better era where politicians were statesmen and stateswomen: giants who ended a cold war without a nuclear exchange and gave the next generation a chance to rebuild the world while engineering an economic prosperity that lasted over two decades. Read more about The Death of Nancy Reagan and the End of an Era
A Maryland police officer was killed Sunday afternoon while responding to a call of shots fired at his police station. The shots were apparently designed to lure officers in for an ambush. Read more about Maryland Cop Killed in Police Station Ambush
Six days ago 2,500 people attended a Fox News/Megyn Kelly Town Hall meeting with Ted Cruz in Raleigh, North Carolina. I arrived at 10:30 with a Cruz Field Director to a sea of overflow supporters. As we walked through the line, we heard buzzing conversations of people who had waited from 8:00 AM, many traveling Texas-like distances to hear him speak. Senator Cruz’s thunderous standing ovations are commonplace in Texas. Read more about Tar Heel State Gives Ted Cruz Texas Welcome
Fifty members of the U.S. House of Representatives and I sent a letter to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, to express our disappointment on the recent statement by the High Commissioner on the Zika virus and its implications for abortion practices. Read more about House Members to UN Official: "Abortion is Not the Answer to Zika Virus"
Last week, movie-goers in Clifton, Texas might have felt like they’d gone Back to the Future, jumping from the 21st century to a cotton farm in the 1930s, a lion hunt in the 1960s, or an East Texas funeral home in the early 1990s. Read more about Texas’ Longest-Running Theater: A Throwback to Simpler Times
The title of this blog used to apply to me, in that I was an outrager. I was 'mad as hell and I wasn't going to take it anymore' when I first got involved in politics. I was taking out my anger on any and all incumbent office holders. They were, after all, the ones who got us into this mess in the first place, right? Not entirely, and before you dismiss me and call me a RINO, let me explain. Read more about Outragers Anonymous