I Hope Dan Brown Has The Catholic Church On His Christmas Card List
Thursday, June 19th, 2008 Posted in Other | 2 Comments »How do you take a mediocre novel and turn it into a phenomena of success? You get the church all riled up about it, just ask Dan Brown. He, of course, authored the Da Vinci Code, the biggest lottery jackpot in literature ...
Who From The Legislature Stands Ready To Run As VP?
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 Posted in The House Gone Mad | No Comments »As I sat watching the news this evening, jumping with glee at the report of a driver service that will ride a toy buggy out to your drunken ass and drive both you and your car home, I found myself ...
Book Review: Barack Obama - The Audacity of Hope
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 Posted in Book Reviews | No Comments »I know, I can hear you all collectively asking of me, "WTF?" Well, what can I say? Don't confuse this post with me endorsing his campaign, but the man might be our next President, so I thought I would get to know ...
Texas Lobby Examined
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 Posted in Talking Policy | 2 Comments »Join me in a drill. I want you to close your eyes and picture before you a lobbyist. What comes to mind? What do you see before you? Likely you see a pot-belly older man in a two thousand dollar suit ...
The Game Of Musical Chairs Is Upon Us
Monday, June 16th, 2008 Posted in Election Commentary | 2 Comments »It's growing harder and harder to think that Senator Hutchison will pass on running for Governor in 2010. Less than a month ago, her harsh words before the Texas Association of Business against the business franchise tax that Governor Perry signed ...
Republican Messaging: Fiscal/Tax Policy
Saturday, June 14th, 2008 Posted in Keeping The Right In Line, Talking Policy | No Comments »It was an interesting experience to cross my own party in pointing out my perceived flaws with our illegal immigration message, and even naming certain lawmakers that I feel are doing more harm that good. It was liberating. It was fun to ...
BOR Has No Problem Hitting Below The Belt
Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Posted in OGR On Other Blogs | 3 Comments »Staying consistent with their usual demonstration of no class and no sense of responsible reporting, the baby bloggers over at BOR put up a despicable post today bashing Secretary Phil Wilson's resignation from the state to go join the private ...
Donna Howard on Johnston High - “Congratulations”
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 Posted in Getting After The Left | No Comments »And she didn't mean it in a sarcastic way either. In her AAS editorial, Rep. Donna Howard offers her sincere congratulations to Johnston high and says that the problem is not the school system, but the state. In doing so ...
Texas Lottery: Time To Put Out Or Get Out
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 Posted in Talking Policy | 6 Comments »So the bean counters over at the Texas Lottery Commission say we have a little problem with lottery revenue for the year, a 70 million dollar problem to be exact. According to the Austin American Statesmen, that is exactly how far ...
I’m Not Usually One to Gloat, But…
Monday, June 9th, 2008 Posted in Election Commentary, OGR On Other Blogs | No Comments »I can't help myself with this one. I'm sure troubled by the discrepancies between their own US Senate poll and Mr. Mike Baselice's take on Texas' Senate race, Rasmussen decided to go back to the drawing board and try it ...