Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is sending members of his Crime Victim Services Division to Fort Hood to work with victims of Wednesday’s attack. The Crime Victim Services Division will be assisting in victim applications for the Crime Victims’ Compensation Fund. Attorney General Abbott offered the following comment about the shooting:

By Michael Barone If you’ve been following events in Ukraine closely, you may have seen maps, available at electoralgeography.com, showing how the ethnic Russian areas voted heavily for one candidate and the ethnic Ukrainian areas for another. However, as the eminent historians of Eastern Europe Timothy Snyder and Anne Applebaum have written, the division is not […]

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas –  The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) will host a ranch gathering Thursday, April 17, at the Heart of Texas Events Center in Brady. Registration for the gathering begins at 5:30 p.m. followed by a complimentary beef dinner. The event is free and open to the public.

By Cal Thomas The Fiscal Times reported last week that the State Department has missing files or incomplete files for more than $6 billion in State Department contracts. Steve Linick, State’s inspector general, issued a “management alert” warning that “significant financial risk and a lack of internal control at the department has led to billions of […]

By Guy Benson As we discussed yesterday, Democrats are hoping to replicate their successful 2012 playbook by shifting voters’ focus onto ancillary issues, and away from the political fundamentals. This week they’re trotting out equal pay for women in an effort to underscore their “Republican war on women” meme. President Obama is signing two executive orders […]

By Joel Gehrke When Democratic National Committee operatives describe something as “undemocratic,” they mean it’s not good for the Democratic Party. “We believe that we should expand democracy — that expanding democracy is good for the nation; it is good for our party,” Democratic National Committee spokesman Mo Elleithee told reporters during a conference call in […]

“That it took six long years for America’s economy to simply return to break even for  Main Street jobs is compelling proof of President Obama’s disappointing economic leadership,” said Brady  Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX), chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, commented on today’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report showing that 192,000 nonfarm payroll […]

Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. –  U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX), Chairman of the House Rules Committee, today released the following statement regarding House passage of H.R. 1874, the Pro-Growth Budgeting Act:

By Ed O’Keefe Former Florida governor Jeb Bush said Sunday that many who illegally come to the United States do so out of an “act of love” for their families and should be treated differently than people who illegally cross U.S. borders or overstay visas. 

By Byron York “It’s only 800 bucks to qualify,” says Rep. Bill Cassidy, the leading Republican challenger to Louisiana incumbent Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu, of his state’s Senate race. “So if it’s on your bucket list to run for Senate, you move to Louisiana, pay your 800 bucks and run for Senate.” Even though a lot […]

Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, Rep. Hall (TX-04) voted in support of H.R. 2575, the Save American Workers Act. This pro-jobs bill – of which Congressman Hall is an original co-sponsor – repeals the 30-hour definition of “full-time employment” under “ObamaCare” and restores the traditional 40-hour definition in order to combat the negative […]

Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. – According to a Hoover Institution study, 2.6 million Americans – primarily low-income earners and those without a college degree – are at risk of losing needed income because employers are forced to cut their hours as a result of Obamacare’s 30-hour rule. Cong. Pete Olson (TX-22) today helped American […]

Rejects Obama-Style Attacks  Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – (HOUSTON) – Ryan Sitton, conservative Republican candidate for Railroad Commissioner, announced today the endorsement of the Immediate Past Chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission and former state representative, Elizabeth Ames Jones.  Jones served in the Texas House of Representatives from 2000-2005 and on the Railroad Commission from […]

Former Smitherman Supporter Backs Fellow North Texan  Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – (McKinney, Texas) – The Ken Paxton for Attorney General Campaign today announced the endorsement of Texas State Senator Craig Estes, who represents the fourteen counties of Senate District 30 in North Central Texas. 

By Star Parker The Supreme Court’s decision last week in McCutcheon v Federal Election Commission, eliminating the total limit that an individual can contribute in an election cycle to candidates and party committees, amounts to a shot of adrenalin to American democracy. The court ruled that such limits violate First Amendment free speech protection. Limits […]

By Conn Carroll In the April issue of Townhall Magazine, HotAir’s Erika Johnsen explains why the ban on crude oil exports was useless in the 1970s, and is actively harmful today. The United States’ shale revolution came almost out of nowhere. In the space of just a few short years, innovations in hydraulic fracturing and […]

By Rick Santorum The mainstream media are in full cry for the U.S. Senate to ratify the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Watch out. When the United Nations starts talking about rights, the truth about what it’s really up to is often carefully concealed. There are always plenty of people […]

“Texas leads the nation in wind energy production, generating more wind power than all but five nations. . . “ Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – Gov. Rick Perry today announced the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF) is awarding $2.2 million to the Texas A&M University (TAMU) Wind Energy Center for a collaborative project that […]