Kelly Horsley
June 24th, 2020
You can take the girl out of politics, but you can't take the politics out of the girl. Or something like that. I have almost always been one to focus on local government like school boards and MUD boards, etc.. It should...
September 12th, 2018
Oh, hello out there in internet, social media world! It's me, The Political Chicken! There's been lots going on lately, but I haven't forgotten about you! From Kaepernick and Nike to now New Balance and President Trump,...
August 21st, 2018
Everyone remembers special foods that they ate growing up. Some of them were prepared with love by family members or neighbors. Some were snacks purchased at the grocery store. Case in point, Nabisco Animal Crackers,...
July 11th, 2018
Can we just stop? I know it's the fault of people on the left AND the right, but could we just stop politicizing EVERY issue and every item? We're politicizing food; most recently with Blue Bell ice cream, and over the past...
July 6th, 2018
Andrew Breitbart once said, "If you can't sell freedom or liberty, you suck." Yep, that pretty much sums up my weekend at the Texas GOP convention a few weekends ago. Let me expound.
June 8th, 2018
Imagine having an ailment and going to the doctor for it. The doctor examines you, runs blood work and tells you in no uncertain terms what you have.
June 4th, 2018
Free speech. Do you have a right to speak your mind freely at work? If you think that you do, you could be mistaken. Well, hang on. You're free to say what you want, you just aren't free from the consequences your speech...
April 5th, 2018
You've heard it before; "Keep Harris County Red". Or, "Turn Harris County Red." Some others out there want to "Turn Harris County Blue". What does all of that even mean??
October 25th, 2017
You've heard "trust but verify" from none other than Ronald Reagan, no doubt. The Tea Party movement taught us to do that, and I hope you still are. Especially in the case of John Culberson, my congressman.
September 29th, 2017
"We're all in this together." To quote Bill Lumberg from the cult classic Office Space, "I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with you there." Many of you know that Mayor Turner is proposing a temporary tax hike to...
March 16th, 2020
Ronald Reagan once said, “If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education...
August 28th, 2018
Yep, you read that right. It's back to school time, people! To help you get prepared, I thought I'd help you to bone up on your rights as a parent.
August 16th, 2018
Oh, irony. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways...Here are a few illustrations of irony. Or stupidity. Or both.
July 9th, 2018
Y'all done gone and done it. No, seriously. Y'all, and by y'all, I mean Empower Texans done gone and made me defend John Cornyn. It's absolutely the last thing I thought I'd ever do since he has been the subject of...
July 4th, 2018
To my true liberty loving friends, something I heard when I first became involved in politics; liberty is messy. I couldn't agree more. So, light the bar-b-que and crack open a cold one this Independence Day to celebrate...
June 7th, 2018
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few." -Wendell Phillips
May 1st, 2018
Hello out there all of you beautiful people! It's TPC back to write about a topic that I could 'write' about with my eyes shut! Can you guess what it is? If you guessed local, unheard of elections, then you guessed...
November 28th, 2017
Okay, I hear you. You're thinking, 'judges'? Like, the book in the Bible? No, silly. I'm talking about black robes and white powdered wigs and gavels. You know, the people who are elected at the ballot box to make...
October 11th, 2017
I always talk about local elections and the importance of making your voices heard. School board elections, college system trustee elections and city council elections are ones that I often think of when I think local. As...
August 16th, 2017
You've heard about the Confederate Statues being torn down in other areas of the United States. Seems that the Spirit of the Confederacy statue in Houston is not immune to that same fate. Mayor Sylvester Turner has just...