Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – “Lawmakers passed a conservative budget that meets the needs of the state, puts us on a sound financial footing, and cut taxes and fees by $1.4 billion,” said the Texas Taxpayers & Research Association’s (TTARA) President Dale Craymer (right) today, releasing an analysis of Texas’ 2014-15 budget, finding it to be one of […]

By Paul Kane and Wesley Lowrey After a dramatic vote, the Senate cleared the critical 60-vote threshold Wednesday that allowed for passage of legislation to suspend the Treasury’s borrowing limit. The cliffhanger vote was scheduled for 15 minutes, but it lasted an hour. It ended when Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his leadership […]

Comptroller Combs Returns $802 Million in Monthly Sales Tax to Local Governments Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas — “Sales tax revenue has increased in Texas now for 46 consecutive months. Increases were seen across all major sectors of the Texas economy,” said Texas Comptroller Susan Combs today, reporting state sales tax revenue in January was $2.3 billion, up 8.3% compared […]

Today’s Logic Letter, By Lynn Woolley Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – Dear Lojiks: Politicians often seem to think they are better than the rest of us. Remember, we have massive inequality, according to President Obama. Here’s HOW unequal we are: the Presidential dogs eat out of fine china and crystal — according to the […]

By Cal Thomas “If at my convenience I might break them (laws), what would be their worth?” — Charlotte Bronte, “Jane Eyre” We’ve come a long way since Justice Charles Evans Hughes remarked a century ago, “…the Constitution is what the judges say it is.” Or have we?

By George F. Will  Many “Downton Abbey” watchers are nostalgia gluttons who grieved when Lord Grantham lost his fortune in Canadian railroad shares. There are, however, a discerning few whose admirable American sensibilities caused them to rejoice at Grantham’s loss: “Now perhaps this amiable but dilettantish toff will get off his duff and get a […]

By Thomas Sowell Some supporters of President Obama may be worried about how he and the Democrats are going to fare politically, as the problems of ObamaCare continue to escalate, and it looks like the Republicans have a chance to win a majority in the Senate. But Democrats may not need to worry so much. Republicans […]

Democrats who oppose Keystone invested $1,000’s in competitors By Timothy P. Carney Any time government intervenes in the economy, somebody’s making money. Environmentalists’ efforts to block the Keystone Pipeline will be good news for those who own the alternative means of shipping oil. Lachlan Markay at the Free Beacon poked around and found this interesting tidbit.

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – BASF Corp. has partnered with Brazosport College to provide job training using a $510,834 Skills Development Fund Grant from the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC).

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – Today Barry Smitherman, Chairman of the Railroad Commission and conservative candidate for Attorney General, announced that the Houston Metro Police Union has endorsed his campaign for Attorney General. “After careful consideration and going through a board process, I am pleased to say the Houston Metro Police Union will endorse […]

Guest speaker talks to Harris County Republican Lincoln-Reagan Day Dinner Texas Insider Report: HOUSTON, Texas – “Texas will be a Democratic state within 10 years if you don’t change. That doesn’t mean we give up on what we believe in, but it means we have to be a more welcoming party. Sen. Paul, whose father is […]

Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. –  U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today released the following statement regarding his objection to any effort to raise the debt ceiling with a simple majority vote: “If you ask anybody outside of Washington whether we should keep increasing the debt ceiling without fixing the underlying problem of out-of-control spending, […]

Texans Lloyd Doggett, Henry Cuellar’s muscular progressivism may boost prominence. By David Hawkings With the recently announced departure of Henry A. Waxman, the 7th member of the U.S. House Democratic Caucus moving on to retirement, Democrats will be saying farewell to more than a century and a half of House experience come January. Potential losses by just a […]

Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. –  “We suffered under intimidation during the civil rights era, the anti-war era, and now with conservative and Tea Party volunteers,” said Cong. Kevin Brady (R-TX) as he helped lead the House Ways & Means Committee investigation into IRS targeting. The committee approved the Stop Targeting of Political Beliefs by […]

Texas Insider Report: HOUSTON, Texas –  “It is a cruel irony that those who fight to defend our democratic system are being disenfranchised in the process.  It’s unacceptable, and we owe it to our military voters to remove as many obstacles to voting as we can,” said Sen. Cornyn (R-TX) earlier today, as he was joined […]

Congressman Joe Barton Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. – It has been a busy time in Washington. This week I took part in two important roundtable discussions. The first, Conversations with Conservatives, was hosted by the Heritage Foundation and focused on immigration reform and the upcoming debt ceiling debate. Then I had a chance to […]

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – Bolstered by a very strong showing of support from physicians across the state, Attorney General Greg Abbott has earned the endorsement of the political arm of the Texas Medical Association (TEXPAC) in his race for governor.

Michelle Malkin Put on your super-shocked faces, everyone: Former Obama administration official Hilda Solis, who is now running for yet another government position in Los Angeles, is embroiled in yet another union corruptocracy scandal. The Hope and Change hits just keep on coming. Solis served as President No More Business As Usual’s first secretary of […]