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Can Turner Win His Latest Race?
Rep. Sylvester Turner of Houston is a long shot in the race for speaker of the Texas House, although surprises could happen if the behind-the-scenes politicking drags on much longer.
Big Show of 2009 Will Be All About Hutchison's Job
by W. Gardner Selby
After November's elections, Dallas lawyer Ken Emanuelson launched a Web site to draft Michael Williams, the Texas Railroad Commission chairman, for the U.S. Senate.
A Conservative's View of the Republicans' Problems
by Paul Burka
Since most Republican lawmakers go to church, they've probably sung the refrain, "On Christ the solid rock I stand. All other ground is sinking sand. All other ground is sinking sand." It's a hymn that kept going though my head as I watched the election results come in. The GOP has built its foundation on quicksand, and Tuesday, the voters told the GOP - nationally and in Texas - that they've had enough. The voters sent the same message in 2006 and it didn't register with the GOP leadership. Perhaps the second time is the charm. The quicksand here is the Austin lobby, a handful of purely self-interested major campaign contributors, and large corporate bureaucracies.
Heiligenstein Tapped to Lead Protective Services Department
Texas Health and Human Services Executive Commissioner Albert Hawkins on Thursday tapped one of his deputies to take over the state agency that earlier this year oversaw the seizure of hundreds of children from a West Texas ranch owned by a polygamous sect.
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History Favors Republicans in 2010
by Karl Rove
Political races are about candidates and issues. But election results, in the end, are about numbers. So now that the dust is settling on the 2008 presidential race, what do the numbers tell us?
Do We Need the Big Three?
by George Will
"Nothing," said a General Motors spokesman last week, "has changed relative to the GM board's support for the GM management team during this historically difficult economic period for the U.S. auto industry." Nothing? Not even the evaporation of almost all shareholder value?
Big Three on the Brink
An emergency effort to send billions of dollars in aid to the ailing American carmakers fizzled on Wednesday, as Senate Democrats failed to strike a compromise with Republicans and the White House.
Markets Collapse, Obama AWOL
by Gary Bauer
Thursday was another day of carnage on Wall Street, and the stocks of many major U.S. corporations are now selling in the single digits. Big Media, of course, are continuing to bash President Bush for the declines. But what about our president in waiting? Read more National News.... |
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Giving Thanks for Liberty's Bounty |
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We think we know the story of Thanksgiving: That the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, faced a harsh winter, famine and disease, and then only with the help of friendly natives learned how to survive. It's nice for bed-time stories, and feel-good paintings, but it ignores the most important lessons of our early history.
The pilgrims weren't city slickers ill-prepared for wilderness life; nor were they misguided about the challenges facing them in the New World. Sadly, the travails and trials of those pilgrims weren't the result of recklessness, ignorance or chance.
No, the problems the pilgrims faced, and overcame, were of their very own making through a misguided ideology.
William Bradford, governor of Plymouth Colony, explains clearly in his own hand what happened in his "History of the Plymouth Settlement." They imposed on themselves what he call "communal service" - what we today would recognize as socialism.
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