By Katie Kieffer Ah, Hillary Clinton. Let me count the ways she doth love to be feminine. 1. She will not bake cookies. She will put down other mothers who stay home and bake cookies. Hillary once said: “I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to […]

By John Stossel Global average temperature has been flat for a decade. But frightening myths about global warming continue. We’re told there are more hurricanes now. We’re told that hurricanes are stronger. But the National Hurricane Center says it isn’t so. Meteorologist Maria Molina told me it’s not surprising that climatologists assumed hurricanes would get worse. […]

“Oil and gas are the backbone of Texas’ economy and the shale oil boom has had an immense impact on business owners, towns, and cities throughout my District, TX-28. . .”–Congressman Henry Cuellar. Texas Insider Report: Washington, D.C. – Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX28) co-chaired the first meeting of the Texas […]

Texas Insider Report:  AUSTIN, Texas – During the summer months, door-to-door salespeople may become more frequent in neighborhoods across Texas. One particularly common door-to-door sale involves security systems. Texans may get a knock on their doors from individuals claiming to be selling security systems or components, or claiming to work for their security system companies […]

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – (Houston) – Congressman Gene Green invites media and members of the community to his upcoming August recess events in the 29th District.  Your assistance in spreading the word to our community would be appreciated.  More information on these events can be found on Congressman Green’s website at http://green.house.gov/events or […]

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Comptroller Susan Combs announced today that state sales tax revenue in July was $2.2 billion, up 7.3 percent compared to July 2012. “Texas sales tax revenue has increased for 40 consecutive months,” Combs said.  “The retail trade sector bolstered the latest growth in monthly revenue, and collections from the […]

Cruz: It Must be Defunded and Repealed Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) today released the following statement regarding Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ visit to Texas to promote Obamacare:

By Andrew Evans Conservative activists send Boehner, McConnell letter urging GOP to seek delay A letter sent by 19 conservative activists urging congressional Republicans to pursue a delay of Obamacare highlights a growing dispute over how to oppose the president’s signature healthcare reform legislation.

By Paul Bedard In a remarkable admission that is likely to rock the Internal Revenue Service again, testimony released Thursday by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp reveals that an agent involved in reviewing tax exempt applications from conservative groups told a committee investigator that the agency is still targeting Tea Party groups, […]

By Brian Hughes – Washington Examiner President Obama, with his snubbing of Russian President Vladimir Putin, showcased one of the more glaring shifts between candidate and commander in chief: Talks with foreign leaders come with preconditions. Ahead of 2008’s presidential election, Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, praised Presidents Kennedy and Reagan for speaking with the Soviet […]

By U.S. Sen. John Cornyn In a pair of recent speeches, President Barack Obama outlined his second-term economic agenda. At Knox College in Illinois, he declared that income inequality is a bigger problem than slow GDP growth and mass unemployment. At an Amazon.com facility in Tennessee, he proposed raising the corporate-tax burden and using the […]

By Michelle Malkin Yuck. Is there a woman in his sights that pervy Democratic San Diego Mayor Bob Filner hasn’t harassed, molested, insulted, propositioned, groped, headlocked or slobbered on while holding public office? In less than a month, the number of victims and witnesses coming forward has skyrocketed from three to 13. And the details have […]

By John Ransom Gosh, we just keep getting it wrong folks. It seems that Obama meant something entirely different when he claimed that he killed bin Laden and saved Detroit. Because, you know, like a lot of problems Obama has tried to tackle, the result has been the exact opposite of what we’ve been told. In […]

By Peter Baker and Steven Lee Myers – New York Times President Obama on Wednesday canceled next month’s Moscow summit meeting, ending for now his signature effort to transform Russian-American relations and potentially dooming his aspirations for further nuclear arms cuts before leaving office. Four years after declaring a new era between the two former cold war […]

By Brian Huges  President Obama told U.S. troops on Wednesday that Americans would not shrink in the face of terror threats that forced the closure of nearly two dozen diplomatic facilities overseas. “The United States is never going to retreat from the world,” Obama said to Marines at Camp Pendleton, near San Diego. “We don’t get […]

Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, DC –  Rep. Pete Olson (TX-22) recently reintroduced his pro-life legislation requiring states to report how Medicaid funds are spent on organizations that perform, promote, or refer for abortion services. This bill would provide greater accountability of taxpayer funds that go to organizations that perform or promote abortions.

“In Texas, we’ve been fighting Obamacare from the beginning . . . ” Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – Gov. Rick Perry today issued the following statement on U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ Obamacare tour in Texas: “Today, Secretary Sebelius is back in Texas to again explain the increasingly-convoluted, and […]

Phillip Watrous ordered to stop land transactions, bring residential lots into compliance and pay civil penalties Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has resolved the State’s enforcement action against a Cameron County developer who unlawfully subdivided and leased several residential lots in violation of state colonias prevention laws.