Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas — Texans for Dan Branch announced today that the DPSOA-PAC, the political arm of the Texas Department of Public Safety Officers Association, has endorsed Dan Branch for Texas Attorney General in 2014.  As one of the largest groups of law enforcement officers in Texas, DPSOA represents nearly 3,800 men and women […]

EEOC’s guidelines unlawfully prohibit Texas from imposing the State’s absolute ban on hiring convicted felons for certain jobs Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today filed a legal action challenging unlawful hiring guidelines issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that limit the ability of employers – including the […]

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – (SAN ANTONIO) – State Senator Donna Campbell earned another key endorsement in her bid for reelection in Senate District 25.  Young Conservatives of Texas gave the sitting senator high marks for her conservative voting record and endorsed her campaign. 

State’s most current employment data for September and October will be available Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas –  As a result of the federal government shutdown, the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) announced today that Texas labor market data, including the total nonfarm jobs and the unemployment rate for September and October, have been rescheduled for […]

“At the same time the president was making the promise, his own administration acknowledged the regulations they were passing would make it impossible to keep it.” Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. – “We now learn that the Obama Administration itself issued the very regulations which have made this – keeping this promise – impossible,” said […]

“Our Founding Fathers declared we are, ‘One nation under God,’ and you better believe I’ll fight like mad to keep it that way. . . ” –Congressman Sam Johnson Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, DC – In response to the U.S. Air Force Academy’s unilateral decision to make the phrase, ‘so help me God’ of the […]

By John C. Goodman A death spiral occurs when pricing in an insurance market spins out of control. If an insurance pool turns out to be more expensive than originally thought, the insurer must raise its premiums. As the premium rises, some healthy people drop their coverage. With a sicker group of enrollees, the average […]

Conn Carroll – The Washington Examiner Who is better to “run” the economy, the big-name experts with the deepest credentials, or the eccentric unknowns who often labor in obscurity? A recent story in the Wall Street Journal highlights the importance of this question by pointing out that the experts missed both the housing debacle in 2007 […]

By U.S. Senator Ted Cruz In 2006, Carol Anne Bond of Lansdale, Pa., burned a woman with caustic chemicals as revenge after the woman became pregnant by Bond’s husband. Ordinarily, Bond would have been prosecuted for assault, aggravated assault or harassment — in other words, for violating Pennsylvania criminal laws. Instead, federal prosecutors charged Bond […]

By David Freddoso   Millions of Americans’ individual market health plans are being canceled because of President Obama’s health care law. Now embarrassed by his oft-repeated and false promise that “if you like your health plan you can keep it,” Obama has retreated to a new line of defense: Your old health plan had to be […]

By Byron York What does the word “affordable” in the Affordable Care Act mean? Many people might assume it means Obamacare will make health coverage less expensive. That’s certainly the impression President Obama gave when he promised his national health care scheme would “cut the average family’s premium by about $2,500 per year. But Obama and […]

By Star Parker The presidential election of 2016 will be a defining moment for the nation and for the Republican Party. Not so for the Democratic Party. There’s no controversy among Democrats about what America should be and what their party is about. Big government, welfare state socialism, and secular humanism. The only question about […]

By Lt. Governor David Dewhurst Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – Throughout our state’s illustrious history, we have experienced droughts of various duration, severity and impact. The worst to date brought us the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s or the “time it never rained” in the 1950s. Since late 2010, Texas has suffered through […]

By Lamar Smith The Statue of Liberty has long been a symbol of freedom and opportunity around the world. Inscribed at the base is a poem that has welcomed newcomers to the New World for over 100 years.

Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the Justice for All Reauthorization Act of 2013.  Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas), is the lead Republican author of the bill.  “This bill provides law enforcement with the resources they need to protect victims of sexual assault and punish their assailants. 

Greets Employees as the New Director and Gets to Work Washington, DC – Earlier this morning, Katherine Archuleta was sworn-in as the 10th Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, the Federal government’s personnel chief, and the first Hispanic to lead the Federal agency.  Acting Director Elaine Kaplan officiated the private ceremony, and Director […]

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – This afternoon the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans temporarily overruled the order of the lower court in Austin that prevented HB 2 from fully going into effect. HB 2 is the pro-life bill passed by the Texas Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Perry […]

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas –  Gov. Rick Perry today announced Oracle is expanding its operations in Austin, establishing an additional office and creating 200 jobs. The company plans to invest $5.4 million in the project. The state is providing $1 million through the Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF) to close the deal on this expansion […]