Texas Politics

The libertarians over at the Reason Foundation recently named Texas Governor Rick Perry an "innovator in action" for his innovative approach to tolling and leveraging private money for a transportation called the Trans-Texas Corridor. Lew Rockwell recently blogged on the...  

Gov. Rick Perry said today that the economy in Texas is in much better shape than it is nationally but noted that state government can't take anything for granted.  

Submitted by Jessica Paxton on Sun, 10/05/2008 - 2:33pm. Start: Oct 7 2008 - 7:00pm Amid the turmoil of this year's national elections, Carleton students have not forgotten local politics.  

Lord mayoral candidate Catherine Ng accuses her opponents of dirty politics, the first serious spat in the race to lead the City of Melbourne.  

10010801 Hewitt: Hour 1 - Hugh broadcasts from San Diego to help out Californians Against Lawsuit Abuse. Joining him are Arizona Senator Jon Kyl with an update on the Main Street rescue plan being voted on tonight in the Senate, and then Texas Governor Rick Perry, former Virginia Attorney...  

In 2009, Texas lawmakers will decide whether to fund an expensive proposal from Governor Rick Perry to fight gangs in the state.  

Governor Rick Perry announced an aggressive new initiative at the State Capitol Monday designed to stop trans-national gangs -- like MS-13, the Texas Syndicate and the Mexican Mafia -- from terrorizing citizens and committing violent crimes.  

ASHEVILLE, North Carolina: Barack Obama hammered Republican White House rival John McCain for wanting to turn the page on the US economic crisis and engage in low-blow personal attacks a month from election day.  

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin expanded her attack on Democrat Barack Obama’s character Monday to include his relationship with an incendiary former pastor as well as his ties to 1960s-era radical Bill Ayers.  

The politics-fueled ratings train of "Saturday Night Live" keeps rolling along this election season with Tina Fey's impersonations of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin luring viewers.  

Someone threw stones through the windows of Liberal and Conservative campaign offices in Halifax overnight.  

TULSA, Okla. - The political ad begins with classical music playing, then a picture of Republican U.S. Rep. John Sullivan. A voiceover says, "Career politician. Member of an exclusive country club."  

In recent elections, the Republican hate word has been “liberal,” or “Massachusetts,” or “Gore.” In this election, it has increasingly been “words.” Barack Obama has been denounced again and again as a privileged wordsmith, a man of mere words who has “authored” two books (to use Sarah Palin’s...  

The Republican National Committee plans to file a fundraising complaint against Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign.  

David Zucker used to be part of the zany, irreverent ZAZ brothers (with his real sibling Jerry and their friend Jim Abrahams) team that invented the modern movie spoof with Airplane! More recently, he's been helming dreadful but lucrative Scary Movie sequels, as well as moving so far to the right...