January 20th, 2012
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States threw out the judge-drawn interim maps for voting districts in Texas, citing the lower-court judges should have been guided more by the maps drawn by the State Legislature.It is...
January 20th, 2012
It looks like somebody remembered that the Constitutions (of Texas and the US) don’t say that judges get the important decisions and the Legislatures get the unimportant ones. I do wish the SCOTUS had said “hands off,” but...
January 19th, 2012
Today, in a move that surprised hardly anyone, Texas Governor Rick Perry announced he is suspending his campaign for President of the United States. During his concession, Gov. Perry endorsed former Speaker of the House,...
January 19th, 2012
Governor Rick Perry announced today, just hours before the South Carolina debate, that he is suspending his bid for the GOP presidential nomination. Perry is putting all his support behind Newt Gingrich.
January 18th, 2012
U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX-Dallas), a Member of House Republican Leadership, today released the following statement in response to President Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline construction which...
January 18th, 2012
If you’ve browsed the Internet today, you know that a handful of websites, including Wikipedia, TwitPic and WordPress, have blacked out in protest of the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA).Other...
January 18th, 2012
For those trying to access the English-language Wikipedia today, you will only be able to find directions for reaching members of Congress to protest the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Privacy...
January 17th, 2012
The presence of a life, is without a doubt, a miracle. An unborn struggles, unknown what it means to exist, inside this sack of fluids in the womb. This unborn is uncertain about what it is to be alive. We, as a society...
January 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 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 20th, 2012
I was pleased to see that, in the Presidential debate in South Carolina Monday night, Newt Gingrich came out in support of a proposal I presented in testimony before Congress on February 2011. It deals with the issue of...
January 19th, 2012
TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. In this video, Clay Shirky, American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies, discusses the negative implications of...
January 19th, 2012
I wrote this to conservative commentator and talk show host Dennis Prager:To begin with, relative to what you are currently discussing and so often do: You are absolutely right in your thoughts about assessing people by...
January 18th, 2012
Provisions contained within the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Privacy ACT (SOPA) put an unconstitutional prior restraint on your freedom of speech on the web. Any discourse, be it vocal or...
January 18th, 2012
U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) released the following statement amidst reports that the State Department will be denying a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline this afternoon:The President has said he wakes up...
January 18th, 2012
U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined Sens. Grassley (R-IA), Hatch (R-UT), Sessions (R-AL), Coburn (R-OK), and Lee (R-UT) in sending a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry...
January 17th, 2012
Newt Gingrich earned continued cheers in Monday nights South Carolina Debate after Fox News correspondent Juan Williams questioned Gingrich on his characterization of the poor. In the past, Gingrich has asserted that poverty...
January 17th, 2012
Featuring Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Dr. Arthur Laffer, Coach Lou Holtz, Dr. Bill Bennett, & Texas AG Greg AbbottWhen you argue/discuss policy with your friends, liberal or conservative, you have...
January 16th, 2012
There are many great stories that have been told about the events of 9-11. All of us know exactly where we were that day and remember what we felt. We saw hundreds of thousands of lives changed in an instant.