No matter where they stand on Obamacare, America’s governors agree on one thing about President Barack Obama’s controversial healthcare overhaul: It’s not going away. “We’re just trying to make the best of a bad situation,” said Republican Gov. Terry Branstad, of Iowa at a meeting of the nation’s governors in Washington, D.C., this weekend.
Twin storms to douse parched cities, crops Meteorologists forecast a pair of storms that could dump several inches of rain on parched cities and croplands throughout California in the coming week, bringing welcome news to a state that has just endured its driest year in recorded history.
Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – “I’m proud to support Lt. Governor David Dewhurst for re-election! Thanks to his leadership more pro-life legislation has been passed during his tenure than during any other time in our history,” remarked Cathie Adams (right,) President of the Texas Eagle Forum, a former RNC National Committee member from Texas […]
From Congressman Bill Flores Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. — The last few weeks in Washington have been quite busy. The president delivered his annual State of the Union address to Congress; the House and Senate passed a conference report for the farm bill; the debt-limit was extended; the House passed a bill to improve […]
Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas — Today, the Texas Attorney General Peace Officers Association (TAGPOA) endorsed Dan Branch for Attorney General. TAGPOA represents the peace officers who serve in the Office of the Attorney General and report to the Texas Attorney General.
Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C. – The Obama Administration’s outrageous abuse and executive overreach has prompted House leaders to declare this week, “Stop Government Abuse Week.” The House is expected to consider a series of measures, including a bill titled “Stop Targeting of Political Beliefs by the IRS Act of 2014.” The bill would prohibit the […]
By Star Parker When Kentucky Senator and Republican presidential aspirant Rand Paul re-surfaced the Monica Lewinsky scandal as relevant to Hillary Clinton’s presidential candidacy, fellow Republican Karl Rove immediately took him to task on national television. “Frankly, Rand Paul spending a lot of time talking about the mistakes of Bill Clinton does not look like […]
By Debra J. Saunders On the day that Facebook paid $19 billion for the aptly named WhatsApp, San Francisco’s Gap Inc. announced it would raise its minimum wage for American employees to $9 per hour this year and $10 per hour in 2015. The announcement probably won’t make a dent in the income inequality gap […]
By John Ransom I got a pen; I got a microphone. And they can have them when they pry them from my cold, dead hands. While it looks like the FCC has at least temporarily backed down from their threats of putting monitors into newsrooms, we haven’t seen the last of it. This has been […]
Today’s Logic Letter, By Lynn Woolley Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – Dear Lojiks, Were this 178 years ago, we would be in day two of the siege of the Alamo. William Barret Travis would not yet have written his “Victory or Death” letter. Texas was not yet a Republic. But it was on its […]
The Wall Street Journal Workers prove to be smarter than their bosses in Tennessee. The decision by workers at the Volkswagen VOW3.XE -0.64% plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee to reject the United Auto Workers is the best news so far this year for the American economy. Even with Volkswagen management on its side, the union that […]
By Congresswoman Kay Granger Texas insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. — We are all familiar with identity theft when it comes to our credit cards and bank accounts. But another type of ID theft is on the rise. Over the last two fiscal years, the federal government has sentenced 661 individuals for ID theft tax refund fraud.
‘It’s a sad day when the White House & Congressional Democrats are celebrating the prospect of a smaller American labor force.’ By Sen. John Cornyn Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN — It’s hard to deny that the Obama Administration has declared a war on the American worker. One need look no further than two recent reports […]
Sen. John McCain, called President Obama “the most naïve president in history” Thursday, slamming the administration’s inept handling of relations with Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin “played us so incredibly,” the Arizona Republican said on Phoenix radio station KFYI. “This is the most naïve president in history.”
Son of Conservative Civil Rights Icon, a Member of Project 21, Issues Statement–FBI, Local Police Investigating Apparent Hate Crime Washington, DC – Members of the Project 21 black leadership network condemn the apparent February 16 hate crime on the campus of the University of Mississippi in which a statue of civil rights icon and prominent […]
By Aaron Blake The White House on Thursday called for Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to remove his security forces from the scene of protests in Kiev — its most forceful statement to date on the quickly escalating conflict. At least 50 people were killed Thursday morning after a tentative truce fell apart, according to a […]
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee The bloodshed in Syria is unacceptable we must remain committed to peacefully resolving a civil war that has claimed about 154,000 Syrian lives and displaced hundreds of thousands of women and children, says Rep. Jackson Lee.
Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas — (Fort Worth, Texas) – “The Cattle Raisers Expo is the largest expo in Texas and Oklahoma designed specifically for ranchers,” said Pete Bonds, TSCRA president. Nearly 200 exhibitors will showcase their products and services to cattle producers across the state at the 37th Annual Cattle Raisers Expo during the […]
