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| Around the State |
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Peggy M. Venable, the director for Americans for Prosperity Texas (APT), a non-profit grassroots organization, issued a press release today announcing that it won a lawsuit against Texas Association of Counties (TAC) and Williamson County.
What happens next with Kay Bailey Hutchison, Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst is the focus of an even bigger hubbub than notly political Texas is accustomed.
When Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison signaled last week that she might leave her seat early to run for governor in 2010, Texas House Republicans didn't exactly whoop and holler. It's not that they don't like the idea of Hutchison in the statehouse; rather, they're reluctant to see incumbent Gov. Rick Perry - who has a distinctly chilly relationship with the Lone Star State's congressional delegation - name a successor to fill out Hutchison's term before a special election is scheduled.
New Education Chief Vows to Try Harder to Listen, Learn
Unlike most people who have held the job of education chief, Scott is not an educator. He is not a former principal, superintendent or school board member. He doesn't have the instant credibility commanded by former commissioners with extensive academic credentials in education.
The departure of San Antonio lawyer Mikal Watts from the U.S. Senate race Tuesday gives Houston state Rep. Rick Noriega a possible clear run for the Democratic nomination and a general election challenge to Republican U.S. Sen. John Cornyn.
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| Presidential Election |
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney narrowly won a Republican presidential straw poll of Christian conservatives on Saturday, while Rudy Giuliani persuaded few to look past his support of abortion rights.
Fred Thompson may have failed to impress Beltway insiders when he finally launched his run for the White House last month, but he is winning over a critical segment of the Republican coalition, new polling suggests.
Iowans Give Huckabee a Second Look
Mike Huckabee, who strums a bass guitar and cracks jokes at campaign stops, is quietly establishing himself with Iowa voters as a serious candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.
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| National News |
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A Navy SEAL who was killed while leading a reconnaissance mission in Afghanistan will receive the nation's highest military award, the Medal of Honor, today.
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| Immigration |
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One supports amnesty. Another wants to rewrite the constitution. Only one strongly favors a fence along the Texas-Mexico border.
Bill Is a Dream for Migrants
The Senate is expected to vote today on a bill that could legalize thousands of students in Dallas and across Texas brought to the U.S. as children by parents in this country illegally.
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| Commentaries |
by Geoff Metcalf
The new epitome for turning lemons into lemonade goes to talk show giant Rush Limbaugh. In the frothy wake of the perpetual acrimonious partisan spitting match between left and right, Limbaugh has eviscerated his petty mean spirited critics AND gifted a worthy charity with a financial windfall.
by Tom Pauken
On Nov. 6, Texans will have the opportunity to pass a constitutional amendment, Proposition 3, which limits the increase in property taxes on one's homestead to not more than 10 percent above the property's most recent appraisal.
by Gary Palmer
Now that President Bush's veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) reauthorization bill has been upheld, liberals are turning the propaganda machine loose on the President and Republicans in Congress. But people need to see through the distortions and understand what is at stake with this bill.
by Peggy Venable
Taxpayers, it's time to open your wallets. November ballot initiatives total almost $10 billion in state spending. School districts are asking for almost $7 billion more in taxes, and local governments are seeking $9 billion in bonds.
by Newt Gingrich
Of all the leftwing calls for surrender in Iraq -- of all the insults to our troops and hysterical attacks on our President -- one stood out this week.
by Donald Lambro
George Bush was asked last week whether he had become irrelevant in the decisions of government, a question that has been posed before in previous presidencies.
by Dinesh D'Souza
It seems atheists have developed a comprehensive strategy to win the minds of the next generation. The strategy can be described simply: let the religious people breed them, and we will educate them to despise their parents' beliefs.
by Bill Peacock
Galileo, the 17th Century Italian astronomer whom Albert Einstein called the father of modern science, was willing to change his views based on observation. For this, he was forced to spend the last years of his life under house arrest by those who refused to believe the sun was at the center of the solar system.
by Michael Barone
Things are not working out as Democratic congressional leaders expected. For the first eight months of this year, they struggled to find some way to shut down the American military effort in Iraq.
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| Miscellaneous |
GOP Congressman Bobby Jindal Wins Louisiana Governor's Race
U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal easily defeated 11 opponents and became the state's first nonwhite governor since Reconstruction, decades after his parents moved to the state from India to pursue the American dream.
Justice Interrupted: Clarity Denied in Holy Land Foundation Mistrial
What a disappointment yesterday's mistrial in the Holy Land Foundation federal trial was. What the public wanted was clarity and closure in this long-running case, which Dallas first began to learn details of years ago in the groundbreaking reporting of this newspaper's Steve McGonigle. What the jury delivered after 19 days of deliberation - and an additional four-day delay in unsealing the verdicts - was confusion.
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Tim Lambert
Texas Home School Coalition PAC |
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) committed the biggest blunder of her tenure by pressing the Armenian genocide resolution and then having to back down when her support vanished. She should have taken the advice of Rep. Rahm Emanuel(D-Ill.), who has opposed the Armenian proposal dating back to his days as an aide in the Clinton White House. Democratic support, once at more than 225 members, collapsed when Gen.David Petraeus, the Iraq commander, briefed congressmen individually and pointed out serious problems with Turkey created by the genocide resolution.
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