January 6th, 2016
One of the many challenges facing the Department of Veterans Affairs in Texas is a shortage of primary care physicians and specialty care providers. Because of this, the VA has alternatives for veterans needing care...
January 5th, 2016
Investigators are working to piecing together an 18-minute gap in the timeline of the San Bernardino shooters' actions the day of the massacre, FBI Assistant Director in Charge David Bowdich said today.
January 5th, 2016
President Obama’s proposal to unilaterally thwart law abiding citizens’ Second Amendment rights is a blatant abuse of his executive authority.
January 4th, 2016
The small band of antigovernment protesters who took over a group of federal buildings in rural Oregon said Monday that they aimed “to restore and defend the Constitution,” in particular the rights of ranchers, and set off a...
January 4th, 2016
There are only a few days until the Iowa Caucuses, and Iowa is the first step in attaining the presidential nomination.
January 3rd, 2016
If Marco Rubio is not "conservative," then the word has been stripped of all meaning by paid dividers of the GOP, and "conservatism is now primarily a matter of aesthetics."
January 1st, 2016
The president plans to meet Monday with Attorney General Loretta Lynch before moving ahead with several gun-related executive actions that could also increase the number of accused domestic abusers barred from purchasing...
December 31st, 2015
Shortly before Christmas, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a report detailing deportations (henceforth “removals”) conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during fiscal year 2015.
December 30th, 2015
The authorities in Pennsylvania announced criminal charges on Wednesday against the entertainer Bill Cosby stemming from a woman’s accusation that he drugged and sexually abused her at his home in a suburb north of...
December 30th, 2015
Tuesday the Texas Supreme Court released rules for how courts handle judicial bypass proceedings regarding secret abortions on minors girls without parental notification or consent. The rules were created in response to HB...
January 6th, 2016
It’s not every day that a liberal paper like the San Antonio Express News calls a Republican “powerful” but it did! If you have ever met with Congressman Lamar Smith then you know that he is a mild mannered, polite man.
January 5th, 2016
I am going to make a controversial statement considering that Lucas is a Hollywood leftist, and I suspect that Lucas viewed Star Wars as a statement against the United States, but the reality is that his story has...
January 5th, 2016
In a New Year’s Day message, President Obama expressed his desire to use executive actions to restrict the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans. The President is expected to meet with the Attorney General today...
January 4th, 2016
It is about one hour from midnight as I write and as we reflect upon 2015, the best I can say is: It could have been worse.
January 4th, 2016
As the House returns to Washington this week, one of the top priorities for conservative members like me will be to pass a bill defunding both Obamacare and Planned Parenthood.
January 2nd, 2016
My thoughts and prayers are with all North Texas families who have been affected by the tornadoes last weekend. On Monday I met with the mayors of Garland and Rowlett, Mayor Doug Athas and Mayor Todd Gottel, to get an update...
December 31st, 2015
Congress is often characterized as a place of partisan bickering and gridlock—where debate and partisan rancor is widespread, but little is actually accomplished. Too often, this assessment has proven accurate. But last fall...
December 31st, 2015
The City of Lubbock, Texas, is still recovering from a historic blizzard that left massive snow drifts and power outages. The storm dumped the third largest accumulation of snow in the city’s history on the streets and...
December 30th, 2015
Each day, the United States’ economy is the target of over 100,000 cyber incidents. The status quo is failing and leaving the American people vulnerable to further data breaches of their most sensitive consumer financial...
December 29th, 2015
It’s clear that university students have become babies. College used to be a right of passage into adulthood, when a child left the nest. Now however, college provides young adults the opportunities to revert to being...