Land Commissioner to share vision at Groundwater Summit Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – (SAN MARCOS) – This year’s Texas Groundwater Summit will be held not far from where the Texas General Land Office launched a major effort to convert brackish water to drinkable water last year.

Vice Chair of the House Defense and Veterans Affairs Committee and Local Small Businessman Seeks Re-election Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – (TEMPLE) – Republican Representative Ralph Sheffield announced today his intentions to seek re-election to the Texas House representing District 55. Sheffield is the owner and operator of the local restaurant and catering service, Las […]

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – (PLANO, Texas) – Today, State Representative Jeff Leach announced strong community support for his re-election to the Texas House of Representatives, receiving endorsements from 80% of the Republican Precinct Chairs in House District 67.  

Open enrollment in the federal Health Insurance Marketplace begins October 1 Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – (Houston) – Congressman Gene Green invites media and the Houston community to his Affordable Care Act Forum tonight.  Congressman Green will be joined by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Regional Director Marjorie Petty and representatives from […]

By David A. Díaz  Legislativemedia@aol.com A bipartisan coalition of state legislators, including Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, Sen. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa, D-McAllen, Rep. Sergio Muñoz, Jr., D-Mission, and Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, are working to rally voter support during the November 5, 2013 statewide constitutional amendment election in favor of Proposition 6, which would help communities […]

By Thomas Sowell | Many years ago, I was a member of a committee that was recommending to whom grant money should be awarded. Since I knew one of the applicants, I asked if this meant that I should recuse myself from voting on his application. “No,” the chairman said. “I know him too — and […]

By Mona Charen It’s ironic that President Obama so often carps about politics — blaming “politics as usual” or “hyperpartisanship” for everything from the lack of economic growth to joblessness to climate change — when he is the most relentlessly partisan president in recent memory. Obama is a staunch left/liberal who finds it very difficult to […]

By John Hawkins Bizarrely, racism in America is no longer mainly about race. Sure, race is involved in a peripheral manner, but racism has mainly become an excuse, a dodge, a way to escape responsibility. When a black liberal is criticized, he cries racism. When liberalism fails, liberals cry racism. When the Democrat Party gets in […]

By Byron York DUBLIN, N.H. — “I’m sick of Republicans letting Obama walk all over them,” says Denise Roberts, a Dublin, N.H., Republican who has come to a grand old home in the shadow of Mount Monadnock to get a first-hand look at Sen. Ted Cruz, perhaps the hottest might-be-candidate in the GOP 2016 presidential field.

By Hugh Hewitt “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.” — President Obama, Aug. 11, 2009 So said President Obama again and again through 2009 and 2010 as he sold Obamacare to the country. He promised. He put his personal integrity on the line. His word. How many UPS […]

By Conn Carroll President Obama will have to decide how to respond to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s apparent use of chemical weapons soon, but whatever Obama does do, do not expect him to run it by Congress. Calling Obama’s bluff As The Weekly Standard‘s Lee Smith notes, Assad’s apparent use of chemical weapons on a Damascus […]

By U.S. Reps. Michael McCaul & Ted Poe New bill demands catching 90% of illegal crossers  Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, DC – Americans know better than the Obama Administration; they have heard the claims that the border is secure, but they know we’re not anywhere near that goal. For Texans, this border insecurity isn’t just close, […]

From Senator Donna Campbell It has been a pleasure to serve you in the Texas Senate. I look forward to continuing to work hard to represent your values. Now that the legislative session has come to a close, I am also looking forward to spending more time with you at events across the district. Already, […]

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – Gov. Rick Perry today issued the following statement on the conviction of Nidal Hasan:  “Nidal Hasan’s cowardly attack on our military was a deliberate act of terror against our country. This guilty verdict affirms we are a nation of laws, honors the victims of this heinous act, and proves […]

By Bartlett D. Cleland A self-proclaimed Tea Party member, Mayor pro tem David Hagan of Victoria, Texas, is trying to pressure Congressman Blake Farenthold into supporting the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act, which would radically expand the power of government, harming Texas small businesses along the way. But Mr. Hagan is wrong about virtually every point […]

By Hugh Hewitt The use of chemical weapons against hundreds if not thousands of civilians in Syria and the burning of scores of Christian churches in Egypt raises the central question of our time: Will America stand by and allow pure evil to kill thousands on the basis of ethnic and religious identification? This month’s thousands […]

By Harry R. Jackson, Jr. In the 1961 movie Paris Blues, Sydney Poitier portrays Eddie Cook, a jazz musician who flees American racism to live in France. Even when Cook falls in love with the beautiful Connie Lampson (played by Diahann Carroll), he resists returning to America to be with her. To Cook, as to many […]

By Bill O’Reilly One of the highlights of my summer experience was the 50th reunion of my graduating class from St. Brigid elementary school on Long Island. Back in 1963, 60 children sat in a small classroom hoping for big things in the future. We had spent eight years together, but now high school beckoned, and […]