Rick Perry

I was disappointed when I stumbled into the article “UT Dumps National Merit Program” by Gary Scharrer that reports that my alma mater, The University of Texas at Austin will “stop giving scholarships to some of their best and brightest students” due to “economic pressures.”

The program costs the university about $4.4 million a year and honors about $13,000 per student who maintain at least a 3.25 GPA.  Read More »

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to meet Governor hopeful Tom Schieffer who is a Democrat from Fort Worth, Texas. Schieffer has represented the United States as Ambassador to Japan and Australia and was a Texas House Representative in the 70s.

His political career began at the young age of 24 when he was nominated to represent Democrats in Tarrant County after beating incumbent Speaker Pro-Tem Tommy Shannon in the Democratic Primary.

In response to Governor Rick Perry's assertion that Texas is the "envy of the nation," Tom Schieffer has carefully reminded us all of the harm that Perry has subjugated our state to.

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Tory Gattis offered interesting commentary on a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed titled, “Soak the Rich, Lose the Rich.”

The opinion piece’s main assertion is that high taxes states have suffered from a mass relocation to no-income tax states such as our own Texas. Gattis adds, “Texas created more new jobs in 2008 than all other 49 states combined.”  Read More »

It seems that tin-foil wearing conspiracy theorist will have a field day telling everyone how we are on the path to a Big Brother state and how can I blame them?

The Houston Chronicle shed light into “a state-funded Web site that allows people to monitor footage from surveillance cameras along the Texas border.”

The website went live about 1 month ago and boasts over 21,000 “virtual deputies” while getting over 5 million hits. The program allows anyone with an Internet connection and time to kill ... the ability to monitor 13 cameras for suspicious activity along the southern Texas border with Mexico.  Read More »

When I heard that Barack Obama was meeting with the Governors of the United States, I was ecstatic. Finally, we were getting the ball rolling about stimulating the economy. Obama was meeting with the Governors to discuss about federal aid aimed at the state level.

My only problem was that two Governors did not participate in the meeting. And no, it was not Sarah Palin … she actually showed up. To my disgrace, one of the Governors that did not show up was no other then Rick Perry of my home state of Texas. Editor's Note: It cannot be confirmed that Rick Perry did or did not attend the event thus we shall assume that he did attend.
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