- Desperate Straus Lieutenants Get Reckless
- Joe Boehner Straus gets promotion on GOP campaign committee – the big-gov’t GOP insiders are rewarding their own and working to push out conservatives from party-related institutions. Do you think the group will back conservatives over moderates across the country with Joe Boehner Straus “at the helm”? He’s a self-professed moderate which means antipathy for conservatives.
- Perry’s Chief of Staff Confirms Straus Tried to Get Wallace Hall to Resign
- Perry’s chief of staff backs up accusation made by embattled UT regent
- Whistleblowing UT Regent Wallace Hall Receiving the Torch of Freedom Award VIDEO
- In Bid for Speaker, Turner Looks to Beat the Odds – Turner can’t win because he’s turned many of the anti-Straus conservatives against him. He apparently doesn’t return phone calls to members, comes into their districts without communicating and other things one doesn’t do.
- Garcia: Yuletide election is Perry’s parting gift to Texas Dems – typical. Lose no matter what you do. Perry didn’t create the vacancies and they’d complain that a later election, not the first date available under law, would have left them unrepresented in the Legislature for more of the upcoming session.
- How to Earn a Bum Steer Award – piss off Austin liberals that’s how, in way they can lampoon. Funny how Texas Monthly’s libs are having to squirm at criticism from their Leftist buddies over picking Davis for the award!
- Texas Values talks Religious Freedom with FRC’s Washington Watch AUDIO
- The GOP Emboldened Barack Obama on Cuba
- The Buckley Rule — According to Bill, not Karl
- Why Gun-Control Advocates Lie about Guns
- Gov. Rick Perry likens Hanukkah to Boston Tea Party rebels
- Perry says he could decide on presidential run by May
- Cruz on Jeb: GOP will lose with another moderate
- Ted Cruz gets trolled after confirmation
- Ted Cruz: I’m Just the Uber of Washington VIDEO
- How the Bush family became a political dynasty
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- Proposed bill would give Texas a tax-free holiday weekend for guns, ammo, hunting gear
- ERCOT report re-ignites war of words over coal-fired plants
- 106th District Attorney accuses district judge of personal bias VIDEO
- Lawyers seek release of Houston youth after landmark ruling
- ————–Texas-News-In-DC—————–
- First Russia, then Iran, now Cuba: One More Very Bad Deal Brokered by the Obama Administration
- Ted Cruz and other GOP Texans fault Obama’s Cuba shift
- Texas Republicans rip Obama initiative on Cuba
- Sen. Cruz Stands with Texas Against President Obama’s Executive Amnesty
- Murders up, but El Paso still safe, Congressman O’Rourke says
- The Unified Ted Cruz Blame Theory Goes Up in Flames
- Senate confirms three Texas judges, including state’s first openly homosexual judge
- Senate passes sales tax deductibility provision; measure now heads to Obama’s desk
- Hensarling-led effort to extend Terrorism Risk Insurance Act dies as parties trade blame
- Texas Dems slam Farenthold over ex-aide’s allegations – but they love Bill Clinton he DID much more than Blake is accused of.
- Farenthold’s Challenges May Go Beyond Lawsuit
- McCaul Talks: Border Security & Amnesty Response Plans
- ————Business & Economy—————–
- TWU brings out the rat for Southwest Airlines contract picketing – fitting, unions are the rats
- Collin Creek Mall closer to being turned over to lenders
- RadioShack replaces adviser as part of cost cutting
- Bad Year for Big Country Cotton Growers VIDEO
- Fewer than 10% of Dallas homeowners are underwater in their loans
- Making unmentionables the talk of the town
- Map reveals when Texas counties hit their peak incomes
- Pollo Tropical and El Pollo Loco open more Houston locations
- Eastman Chemical to expand production in Longview
- As pump prices tumble, states feel pinch of lower oil prices
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- Former J.P., Eric Williams, sentenced to death for murder of DA, others
- Couple ‘joyous’ over Kaufman County slayings, killer’s estranged wife testifies
- Travis Co: Former Blazier Elementary teacher gets 16 years for assaulting student
- Victoria police officer on paid leave as Taser investigation intensifies VIDEO
- Woman Sentenced for Injecting Liquid Rubber into 30 Buttocks
- Generous Customer Pays Off Christmas Layaways at Wichita Falls Walmart
- KCEN-Waco Meteorologist Shot Multiple Times Outside Television Station
- Midland Police Officer Shoots Wife, Self in Apparent Murder-Suicide, Officials: Condition of Midland Police Officer’s Wife Unknown, City: Status of officer’s wife unknown
- 33 pounds of cocaine nabbed in Panhandle traffic stop
- Lubbock Police Arrest Suspect After Bank Robbery and High Speed Chase
- Killeen resident finds body hanging from a tree in wooded area
- Gunshot victim found dead in car in Houston
- Illegal gambling raided in Henderson County
- Union pacific crews continue repairs near Saturday’s train derailment near Longview
- Tyler man arrested for hiring a man to kill his wife
- Man sets himself on fire outside Harris courthouse
- Report: Texas man killed by El Paso police was on drugs
- Houston: Fake police officers invade home, shoot resident in the head VIDEO
- Two dead after police shooting, dispute at Taco Cabana on San Antonio’s West Side
Political and other Texas news for 12/17/2014
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