Texas retreat brought together Perry, religious leaders
From Fort Worth Star Telegram, By Tom Hamburger and Matea Gold, Tribune Washington Bureau, 09/02/2011 – On a remote ranch more than 70 miles west of Austin, top evangelical leaders from across the country assembled last weekend for a private two-day retreat. It wasn’t a religious revival that drew the group of 200, which included [...]
Rick Perry Signs Law Exempting Disabled Veterans from Property Taxes
From Blue Star Chronicles – Texas Governor and presidential candidate Rick Perry signs a law exempting disabled veterans from property taxes. He is a veteran of the United States Air Force and has consistently been a strong supporter of our military throughout his tenure as Governor of Texas. Read more and see a photo and [...]
Kinky for Perry
Kinky Friedman once ran against Rick Perry for the Texas governorship. So would the singer and writer vote for him for president? Hell, yes! The world’s most famous Jewish cowboy on why he wants to live in Rick Perry’s America. From The Daily Beast, By Kinky Friedman,Aug 24, 2011 – Rick Perry has never lost [...]
President Perry – Elephant in the Room
From The Observer, By Mark Easeley, August 26, 2011 I know all of you care who I am going to endorse for the upcoming republican presidential nomination, therefore let me get it out in the open so that I have hard evidence to cite when I am proven correct. Not only am I picking Gov. [...]
Rick Perry Is a Higher-Education Visionary. Seriously.
From The New Republic, by Kevin Carey, August 25, 2011 | 12:00 am Rick Perry is wrong about many things, including (but not limited to) the reality of climate change, the treasonous nature of quantitative easing, and the execution of innocent men. But give the man credit: He’s got some smart ideas about higher education. [...]
Rick Perry’s views on the Constitution get closer scrutiny
From the Los Angeles Times -By David G. Savage, Washington Bureau, August 23, 2011 Now that Texas’ governor is a GOP candidate for president, opinions in his book – that Social Security is unconstitutional, for example – move into the spotlight. Texas Gov. Rick Perry with supporters in Austin. (Larry W. Smith, European Pressphoto Agency [...]
The Texas Jobs Panic
Liberals try to discredit the Lone Star State’s economic success. The Wall Street Journal – Rick Perry is not the subtlest politician, but he looks like Pericles next to the liberals falling over themselves to discredit job creation in Texas. We’d have thought any new jobs would be a blessing when 25 million Americans are [...]
Arne Duncan Can’t Quite Explain Why He’s Dissing Texas
School of Thought By Andrew J. Rotherham Friday, Aug. 19, 2011 U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, left, says the Texas school system “has really struggled” under Governor Rick Perry. Why is Arne Duncan messing with Texas? I asked the Secretary of Education about this a few hours after he injected himself into the presidential-election [...]
