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Government
Put simply: We are for limited government that works. At TexasGOPVote, we will work as a watchdog to help our state lawmakers and our congressional delegation pull in the reins on unnecessary spending and government bureaucracy. You better believe we’ll expose politicians who seek to act outside the bounds set by the Forefathers in the Constitutions of Texas and the United States.
May 2nd, 2012
Over on my Facebook page, someone pointed out a review of a new book called The Self-Made Myth: The Truth About How Government Helps Individuals and Businesses Succeed. Not having read the book, I don’t know whether it or...
April 18th, 2012
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” -- Plato circa 400 B.C.This weekend, most of the counties and state Senatorial District...
April 1st, 2012
After the legislature gives the Emperor unlimited power in the Third Star Wars and the whole assembly breaks out in applause, Padme commented, “That is how democracy dies, with applause.” In a recent Scientific...
March 22nd, 2012
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is a political committee devoted to maintaining and increasing the 239-member...
March 20th, 2012
Take note of the Atlantic's cover:It’s the old something-for-nothing analysis: by buying stuff with money conjured out of thin air, by creating “liquidity” ex nihilo, disaster was averted. Financial disasters are...
February 22nd, 2012
The Draft Plan Has Finally Been Released!EVERY REPUBLICAN WANTING TO GET INVOLVED in the Republican Party of Texas Convention/Delegate Selection Process MUST READ THIS!It is very good and very intricate. It hopefully will...
February 17th, 2012
SAN ANTONIO – The First Amendment to the Constitution establishes our right to exercise our religious beliefs as we deem fit, without fear of persecution, intimidation or coercion from our government. Freedom of religion,...
February 1st, 2012
The Ron Paul college kids are too smart for such silliness. Then there are the rest of them.
January 20th, 2012
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) today issued the following statement in response to the Senate decision to postpone consideration of legislation to help combat online piracy.I have heard...
January 11th, 2012
The Utility of the Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection (continued)—Federalist No.10For Americans of all strata, individual freedoms are important. Our freedoms assure us the right to free speech...
April 25th, 2012
My friend Brad Thompson, whom I interviewed last year (see the second half of this YouTube video) on neoconservatism, sent along this talk he gave not long ago on the subject of why Marxism attracted (and in some cases still...
April 11th, 2012
RPT - Starting this Saturday, April 14th, Texas Republicans will begin assembling in various counties across the state to conduct County & District Republican Conventions. The process will also continue next Saturday,...
March 26th, 2012
Chuck Devore was in the CA state assembly from 2004 to 2010 and ran for US Senate in 2010. He has now moved to Texas. He wrote an article in National Review Online on reasons why Texas is succeeding as California is...
March 21st, 2012
The House Judiciary Committee Tuesday approved a bill to provide immediate relief to small businesses and freeze the implementation of significant regulations by the Obama administration. The Regulatory Freeze for Jobs...
March 5th, 2012
Numerous news outlets reported recently that conservative coalitions and organizations from Hawaii to Virginia, including Tea Party groups, the Ohio Liberty Council, the Kentucky 9/12 project, and many others that applied to...
February 19th, 2012
Update: The New Draft Plan has come out and all counties and senatorial districts will be able to have precinct conventions (if they want) and they can be whenever and wherever the county or senatorial district wants....
February 16th, 2012
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is a political committee devoted to maintaining and increasing the 239-member Republican majority in the U.S. House...
January 29th, 2012
Journalist Don Surber relayed yet another climategate email from the East Anglia gang, demonstrating not just the weakness of the man-made climate change science but also reinforces what those who believe in Natural causing...
January 15th, 2012
TexasGOPVote blogger David Bellow was recently on KTEK NBC in Tyler, TX to discuss the recent revelations that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been monitoring blogs and other social media sites like Facebook,...
January 4th, 2012
I issued this statement today after the White House confirmed President Obama will recess appoint Richard Cordray to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).Today’s appointment of another unaccountable czar is...
