The news of Texas covered today includes:
Our Lone Star story of the day: “Our Republic Endures Only When Enemies Can Retire in Peace,” is a recent piece by our good friend Stephen Balch, Ph.D., in which he asserts that if losing elections is criminalized a vicious circle sets in rendering politics warfare by other means.
Steve Balch, Ph.D.
Dr. Balch is an American conservative scholar and higher education reformer. He was the founding president of the National Association of Scholars from 1987 to 2009. Balch received a bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, from Brooklyn College, City University of New York, in 1964. He received his master’s degree (1967) and Ph.D. (1972) in political science from the University of California in Berkeley. It was during the Berkeley riots that he became a conservative and he is now a Republican. 
Dr. Balch was awarded the National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush at the White House on November 15, 2007. The award cited him “for leadership and advocacy upholding the noblest traditions in higher education,” and went on to say that “his work on behalf of reasoned scholarship in a free society has made him a leading champion of excellence and reform at our nation’s universities.”
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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick asserts that Drinker of the House Phelan is breaking the law in avoiding state auditors over impeachment expenditures. Also, Speaker Phelan’s polling doesn’t look very good but it will be extremely difficult to defeat him in his home district.
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