Texas GOP Vote

My intentions, which can wait a day or two, were overwhelmed by Barack Obama’s statement this week on homosexual marriage and the ensuing breathless flutter of the media. Notwithstanding many comments that the economy was the real issue and that this one would have negligible political importance, only affirming existing inclinations, the matter was front and center on the Sunday “News” programs (the quotation marks seem especially appropriate in this case).

America is now governed by an individual whose pathological contempt for the energy sector promises to destroy American economic strength for future generations. President Obama has openly pursued policies that accurately can be described as suicidal in their economic consequences.   Read more »

Wednesday, Fernando Trevino and I had the pleasure of spending the day with congressional candidate Adela Garza before a political forum hosted by various local media outlets. Garza is in the race to be the first representative for the newly created Congressional District 34.

Over coffee and sandwiches at her home in Olmito, Texas, we discussed why Garza was running for office.   Read more »

I had a chance last month to speak to the convention of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association. I talked about nullification, the book and the concept. (I note that Amazon has only six copies left at $10; after that it’s back to the $16.47 ones.) Not much new here for longtime readers; I gave my basic overview because I assumed the audience was relatively new to the subject. The main significance is

I am pleased that President Obama’s State of the Union speech spent less time than usual attacking Republicans. Unfortunately, his speech was filled with statements that will play well on the campaign trail, but it contained little substantive policy.   Read more »

Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. Abraham Lincoln

The Iowa caucuses have come and gone and are now part of the political history we will revisit in 2016. I went to Iowa to volunteer for Rick Perry’s effort in seeking the presidential nomination. My stay was short, flying in on January 1st and departing on January 4th, which was just enough time to make phone calls to get out the vote and to be a surrogate on January 3rd.

Today, December 15, is the day we commemorate the first ten ratified amendments to the Constitution of the United States, more popularly called our Bill of Rights.

There were twelve Amendments proposed, but only ten ratified by the states. (The other two dealt with expanding the number in the House of Representatives as the population increased, and preventing Congress from voting themselves immediate pay raises.)   Read more »

The renaissance of the famed Lincoln Douglas debates was held Saturday in The Woodlands, Texas north of Houston. Rather than the sound-bite world of 30 and 60 second responses to “gotcha journalism” that is promoted on televised debates, this one was very lightly moderated, the questions posed for discussion were substantive, and the candidates

Thursday morning, members of the Tenth Amendment Task Force and I announced proposed legislation aiming to preserve states’ rights. To commemorate the 224th Anniversary of the signing of the Constitution, I have introduced two bills that will restore sovereignty as our Founders first intended.

As the federal government continues to spend money without state

Some familiar themes here, but I am emphasizing that the most significant thing about state nullification, about which I have written a book, is that the very discussion of it involves straying from the ideological concentration camps in which our political and media establishments would   Read more »