Showing posts with label Gov. Rick Perry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gov. Rick Perry. Show all posts
Monday, July 21, 2014

Perry pulls a 180 on immigration

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Once upon a time Gov. Rick Perry had a sensible position on immigration. He knew, as did most Texans, that Texas has a unique relationship w...
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Friday, January 24, 2014

The times they are a-changing

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I could start off with a rant about why taxpayers in Texas are being asked to pay for a security detail for Gov. Rick Perry while he rubs sh...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Limited means what I say it means - or something to that effect

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Sometimes it's easy to forget that Gov. Rick Perry and his wingnut disciples claim to believe in limited government. As I've pointed...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Judge strikes portions of Texas anti-abortion law

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On Monday a federal judge sitting in Austin declared parts of Texas' new stringent anti-abortion law to be unconstitutional . In particu...
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

A new installment of Travel with Rick Perry

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Rick Perry, he of the good hair and a love for limited government, is over in merry ol' London as you read this and is headed to Israel ...
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Thursday, May 9, 2013

You're more likely to die at work...

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On Patriots' Day in Boston two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon killing three people and injuring well over 10...
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Friday, February 8, 2013

Rick Perry's love of (un)limited government largesse

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In a continuation of a story that just never seems to get old, Governor Rick Perry has handed in another bill for the security detail that a...
Saturday, January 19, 2013

Rick Perry's praying for you

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“As a free people, let us choose what kind of people we will be. Laws, the only redoubt of secularism, will not suffice. Let us all return ...
Friday, January 11, 2013

The biggest loser

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14,278. That's the number of votes Republican judicial hopeful Brad Hart lost to incumbent Judge Maria Jackson this past November. T...
Monday, October 8, 2012

On hypocrisy and handouts

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Some things just never get old. There are few things more ironic than politicians who accuse the poor of mooching off the state who have n...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Update: One is the loneliest number

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So Rick Perry proved once again that he's man enough to preside over the murder of an inmate . This is the same man who has presided ove...
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

More limited government, Perry-style

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That champion of limited government, Rick Perry (he of limited intellect), racked up more than $1.7 million in travel expenses related to h...
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Thursday, February 16, 2012

The medicine cabinet is almost bare

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What is a bloodthirsty governor supposed to do when he runs out of one of the drugs in the lethal cocktail used to murder inmates in his sta...
Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Limited government? What's that?

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So, Mr. Limited Government, what should we do about the budget shortfall in Texas? Cut funding for public education, you say. Really? Is t...
Friday, November 18, 2011

Defending the indefensible

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The other night (at yet another televised "debate") three GOP presidential hopefuls, Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann and our own Ric...
Thursday, November 3, 2011

New members appointed to Texas forensic science panel

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It's out with the old and in with the new on the Texas Forensic Science Commission as the Fair-haired One appointed three new members an...
Monday, September 19, 2011

Welfare: Rick Perry-style

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It would appear that our local leader of the limited government movement, Gov. Rick Perry, has a bit of 'splaining to do over the trave...
Friday, September 9, 2011

Cheering on the state death machine

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That's right. You heard the audience cheer when Brian Williams stated how many inmates have been murdered by the State of Texas. You h...
Thursday, September 8, 2011

On statistics and the death penalty

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Doug Berman over at Sentencing Law and Policy  presents us a new statistic to measure the efficiency of state death machines - "Execu...
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Taxpayers subsidizing Perry's White House bid

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So Rick Perry is running for president. How long had he been contemplating his navel running for the White House? How many of those out o...