- —-Texas Legislature / government / issues —–
- Judge Rejects Texas’ Bid to Block Syrian Refugees, more
- Momentum Continues To Build In Support Of State Refugee Security Act VIDEO
- Texas House Committee Hearing on ‘Undocumented Immigrants’ – Invited Speakers Only – the Speaker’s fix is in. Can’t say the proper legal words “illegal aliens” and don’t let the public speak.
- Pro-Illegal Alien Groups Fight Texas Detention Centers Licensing
- Lt. Governor Patrick sends letter to President Obama on border security
- House lawmakers taken aback by catastrophic failures in upgrading child support system
- Comptroller: Time to Renew Your Ag/Timber Exemption
- What Employers Should Know About Child Support
- Texas police chief, others urge citizens to arm themselves
- Texas applauds new bill that will take place of No Child Left Behind
- Judge says he will rule on Wallace Hall’s suit for documents next week
- ‘Jane Does’ Ask Court to Keep Planned Parenthood in Medicaid
- DPS Chief blasts Tea Party-backed requirement that the agency delete 10 point fingerprints – screw DPS on this one.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Racist Affirmative Action Argument
- Justice Thomas on Racial Preferences and Mismatch
- Leubsdorf: Two Texas cases in Supreme Court with big implications
- Analysis: In Redistricting, Somebody Will Be Slighted
- Lone profitable ACA insurance co-op losing millions
- —- Texas campaigns / elections / other political —–
- Oops! Straus Political-Cover Operation Brands Democrats “Effective Conservatives”
- Texas Railroad Commissioner drops re-election plans, more
- Porter withdraws from RRC race, former Land Commissioner Patterson considers a run
- RINO Rep. Jim Keffer says he is also considering a run for Railroad Commission
- Source: Former state rep. Wayne Christian filing for Railroad Commission
- Deep pockets of Gary Gates may have turned RRC race on its head
- Former state rep. Rick Green running for Supreme Court, Place 5 in GOP primary
- HD20: Terry Wilson files to challenge Rep. Marsha Farney in GOP primary
- HD49: State Rep. Naishtat Changes Mind, Will Not Seek Re-election
- HD84: Stickland Endorses Landtroop, Details Frullo’s “Crony” Record
- For Abbott, A Balancing Act of Religion and Politics
- Mock mass shooting changes location after warnings from UT
- Kurt Russell: “absolutely insane” to believe that more gun control will curb terrorist attacks.
- WaPo Acknowledges That Present Gun-Control Proposals Wouldn’t Have Stopped ‘Major Shootings’
- Obama’s ‘Gun Control Executive Action’ Is Almost Certainly a Big Nothing
- Lawful gun owners aren’t the problem
- Shock: Released Gitmo Detainee Spurns Quiet Retirement, Rejoins al-Qaeda
- No one cares about UWEX 16, aka Jade Helm 2
- How Billionaire Techies Hope To Reshape The Immigration Debate
- ——- 2016 Race for the White House ——–
- GOP preparing for contested convention
- Poll: Donald Trump back on top, with Ted Cruz climbing into second VIDEO
- Hopkins: Don’t demonise Trump, he speaks for millions of Americans. And who can blame them for not wanting to end up like us?
- Donald Trump is stripped of honorary degree at Scottish university
- Trump stripped of his role as a Scottish business ambassador
- Several officers claim Donald Trump is right about policing in London
- Noonan: GOP Can’t Win Presidency with Trump and They Can’t Win Without His Supporters VIDEO – B.S.
- This bald eagle seriously doesn’t like Donald Trump
- How Trump Can Become Person of the Year
- Top Iowa Evangelical Leader Endorses Cruz
- Iowa Republican kingmaker Bob Vander Plaats endorses Ted Cruz
- Viguerie endorses Cruz, asks other conservatives to follow suit
- Ted Cruz is positioned to win Iowa, insiders say
- The underreported storyline of Ted Cruz’s Iowa surge
- Ted Cruz betting big on southern evangelical voters
- Sen. Cruz: Keeping America Safe at Home and Strong Abroad VIDEO
- Cruz: Wall Street Journal Should Change Its Header to the ‘Marco Rubio for President Newspaper’ VIDEO
- Cruz Talks Foreign Policy, Deflects Question on Trump, Carson
- Ted Cruz Questions Donald Trump’s ‘Judgment’ to Be President
- Are Jeb Bush’s Campaign AND Super PAC Nearly Broke?
- Lindsey Graham: Donald Trump ‘Declaring War on the Muslim Faith’
- Marco Rubio’s Statement On Mass Shootings Rated TRUE By Washington Post Fact Checker
- Fearing Both Hillary and the Donald
- Dallas council member endorses Martin O’Malley in Democratic presidential race
- —————Texas-News-In-DC——————
- U.S. House Passes Red River Private Property Rights Act, On to Senate
- House Clears Bill Aimed At Red River Confusion
- Senate Bill on Missing Airport IDs Notes NBC 5 Investigation VIDEO
- Women Now Subject to Involuntary Assignment to Combat Units, Selective Service
- Committee Passes Neugebauer’s Bipartisan Data Security Act
- Cornyn Votes for Bipartisan Education Overhaul
- Cornyn: A Year of Bipartisan Accomplishments in the Senate
- Eleven GOP members vie for spots on Steering Committee
- Sanctuary City Advocate Wrong to Lead Border Patrol, Senate Homeland Security Chairman Warns
- —————Business & Economy—————-
- KPMG says Texas holiday shopping season ‘lukewarm’ so far
- Staffers Say Texas Regulator Should Nix Oncor Deal – crazy
- Hilcorp Energy Gives Every Employee a Huge Six-Figure Christmas Bonus VIDEO
- Jerry Reynolds Seeing Major Increase In Demand For SUVs
- Texas Scientist Aims to Revolutionize Electricity Grid
- Stalled carbon capture coal project in Texas begins to move forward
- Billions of barrels of oil vanish in a puff of accounting smoke
- ConocoPhillips to cut budget by 25 percent next year
- OPEC report and US dollar tag-team to pummel crude once more
- Brownsville on verge of landing major industrial project
- Law firm Vinson & Elkins coming to Uptown kicking off $200 million development
- Grand entry gates at Uptown’s Crescent are gone in project redo
- St. Bernard Sports changing its name to Saint Bernard as focus expands
- New CEO for top contractor Austin Commercial
- Federal haze rules target seven Texas coal facilities
- —————-Statewide general——————-
- Starr County Tax Collector, 15 Others Including Staff Arrested
- Milam Co. Tax Assessor Pleads No Contest To Attempted Theft Charge
- Boy, 11, Dead After Accidentally Shooting Self: Dallas Police
- Student Stabbed at a Fort Worth High School: Officials VIDEO
- Mexican Cartel-Connected Group Attempts Ambush of Breitbart Border Reporters in Texas VIDEO
- Man Suffers Serious Burns in Oil Field Accident in Clay Co.
- Sheppard AFB Airman Found Guilty On Sex Abuse Charges VIDEO
- Girl, 13, who jumped from moving Galveston ISD bus in dies
- Displaced Seminole residents confront company about gas leak VIDEO
- Lazy Dallas Burger King robber uses drive-thru to pull heist
- 36,000 child porn images net South Texan 10 years in prison
- Police find woman’s body on bank of San Antonio River Walk
- Family Seeks Answers After Inmate Is Beaten In Bell Co. Jail
- Body found in Clint; 3rd body found in 3 days in Fabens area of El Paso County
- Francisco Colorado found guilty in Zetas money laundering case
Political and other Texas news for 12/10/2015
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