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June 14, 2008
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Around Texas
Presidential Election
DeLay Hammers Obama
Around Texas
Dallas Morning News Editorial
Not being one to fawn over politicians of any stripe, I'm surprising even myself today: If I could, I would send Gov. Rick Perry a bouquet of yellow roses. I'd buy him a beer.
by Wayne Slater
Pastor Carl Rohlfs had hardly finished preaching to the choir Friday when somebody jumped up and asked why he was preaching to the choir.
It's shaping up to be a long, hot summer, even by Texas standards, as the State Board of Education gears up to determine the curriculum standards for the state's new science textbooks. Science includes evolution - the phenomenon whereby the species on Earth today evolved from species now extinct. That fact is what creationists on the board don't believe in.
 
Gov. Rick Perry took personal responsibility Thursday if Texas "stepped across some legal line" in the April raid on a West Texas polygamist sect's ranch while defending the state's action, The Dallas Morning News reported.
 
A couple from a polygamous West Texas sect won a small victory Monday, even as their custody hearing was put on hold.

FLDS Couple Notches Another Court Victory
An FLDS couple won another court victory Monday.  But their quest to obtain full legal custody of their children from Texas officials is still up in the air.
 
The attorney for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints said Tuesday that the polygamist sect intends to sue state and county officials over the April 3 raid on the Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado.
 
 
Presidential Election
 
by E. J. Dionne, Jr.
The scene has stayed with me for six years: Democrat Jill Long Thompson, in the midst of a fiercely competitive race in Indiana's 2nd Congressional District, was being pressed by supporters to criticize what they saw as President Bush's rush to war in Iraq.
 
by William McKenzie
There were delegates to the Texas Democratic convention last weekend who could explain how Barack Obama would move Washington beyond its partisanship.

New PAC Seeks to Court Christians for Obama
A fund-raiser is being held tonight in Washington for a nascent political action committee that is hoping to reach out to Christian communities on behalf of Senator Barack Obama.
Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain outlined on Tuesday sharply different approaches on how to revive the nation's economy and provide aid to struggling workers, giving voters a clear choice on the issue that Americans say they are most concerned about.
by Carolyn Barta
What's up with this? Presumed GOP nominee John McCain can't make it to the Texas Republican Convention running Thursday through Saturday in Houston but can be in the convention city on Tuesday for a big fundraiser at the home of a restauranteur and his wife who previously raised money for Bill Clinton and last year donated to Hillary.  The general reception is $1,000 but a private reception and photo op with McCain is $10,000 (give or raise) or $2,300 without the photo op.  See more details on the Chronicle's Houston politics blog.  

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 DeLay "Hammers" Obama
 
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Gary Bauer
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who was nicknamed "The Hammer," spoke to the Washington Times recently about the current political environment and the stakes confronting conservatives in 2008. In his usual blunt and non-politically correct manner, DeLay offered some harsh criticisms of Obama's radical agenda, which, in my view, underscore the importance of conservative unity in the days and weeks ahead.

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