Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas  — Texas Comptroller Susan Combs announced today that state sales tax revenue in October was $2.14 billion, up 5.4 percent compared to October 2012. “Growth in sales tax revenues was led by collections from the telecommunications sector,” Combs said.

“40% – 67%” of customers will not be able to keep their policies. By Gary Polland Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – As time goes on with the Obamacare rollout, we are learning more and more about the lies told to sell Obamacare. So what’s the latest? The Democrats own this turkey.  

Associated Press reports 3.5 million Americans have lost their health care coverage so far, and premiums will increase in 41 states Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. – You know things are bad for President Obama when New York Magazine, no bastion of conservatism, is producing videos pointing out his lies. In this video montage, Obama is seen stating […]

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – (Fort Worth, Texas) – Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association President Pete Bonds made the following statement today after Texas voters approved Proposition 6, a constitutional amendment that will provide for the creation of the State Water Implementation Fund for Texas and the State Water Implementation Revenue Fund for […]

By Mark Tapscott As expected, New Jersey voters gave their combative Republican governor a second term, while Terry McAuliffe, the Clintons’ favorite bagman and alligator wrestler, eked out a narrow win in Virginia. There was no surprise in the New Jersey results but the closeness of the Virginia balloting may have shocked strategists in both parties.

By Timothy P. Carne McLEAN, Va. — Democrat Terry McAuliffe beat Republican Ken Cuccinelli in Virginia’s governor race, outraising Cuccinelli nearly two-to-one and dominating in the richest part of the state. What’s going on here?

By Michelle Malkin Now that true horror stories of Obamacare’s wrecking ball are finally reaching the public, the White House doesn’t like “anecdotes.” Live by tale-telling; die by tale-telling. On Tuesday, White House press secretary Jay Carney huffed that stage-four gallbladder cancer survivor Edie Littlefield Sundby’s personal account in The Wall Street Journal of seeing her […]

By Hugh Hewitt OK, this will surprise: I was a Romney guy. Still am. Would have made a superb president. But after five years branded as “in the Romney camp” even when I wasn’t, I am staying very neutral in the 2016 contest, though this isn’t very hard since no one is running yet and none […]

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn It is one of the most important battles raging in Washington, a fight that will have far-reaching consequences for everything from health care and the regulatory state to gun rights and the war on terrorism. Yet most Americans have heard nothing about it. I’m talking about Democratic efforts to pack the […]

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – Gov. Rick Perry today issued the following statement in response to the passage of Proposition 6:   “Today, the people of Texas made history, ensuring we’ll have the water we need to grow and thrive for the next five decades, without raising state taxes.

By Rep. Jason Isaac Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – There are no words to describe our gratitude towards those who risk their lives to protect our families and our country.  The magnitude of their sacrifice is simply incomparable.  Thank you to our veterans and their families who serve our country and defend our freedoms. 

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 […]