Articles tagged: Barack Obama
Obama to #SXSW Tech Bros: Your Country Needs You
President Barack Obama implored the tech bros of SXSW to use their skills to increase civic engagement and even improve national security....Read More
Paxton on SCOTUS Win: ‘Impossible’ Clean Power Plan a ‘Blatant Overreach’
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton kept his remarks surprisingly tame after winning a temporary victory against the new federal climate initiative....Read More
Strangest State: Errant Emus, a Reading Dog and a Giant Chair
Strangest State is a recurring feature on local news you might have missed from around Texas. From profiles of small-town doctors to monstrous swamp creatures f...Read More
Ted Cruz Still Thinks He’s Ronald Reagan. He’s Still Wrong.
Reagan is the ur-Republican, and when Cruz aspires to re-run the ‘80 election, he’s promising nothing less than the spiritual cleansing and rebirth of both ...Read More
King’s Gambit
Daniel King's quiet mission to transform public education in South Texas.
The early college movement is growing fast today — a free head start on higher education is especially alluring in a time of boundless student debt — and Da...Read More
Cruz Courts Tea Party and Channels Trump in Kingwood
On the campaign trail outside Houston, Ted Cruz delivers a bombastic defense of anti-gay Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis
Ted Cruz's little statewide tour took him to same-day events in Ft. Worth, Tyler and Kingwood, where he rallied the faithful and proved once again that no one i...Read More
Ted Cruz: Trump Hurts Conservatives, and I Love It!
If Cruz has enough brainpower to know that Trump is bad for both conservatism and the Republican Party — and there’s ample reason to believe that he does â€...Read More
Minding the Flock
In Granbury, evangelical leaders rally the faithful with talk of Hitler, slavery, sodomy and voter turnout.
On Friday, at the second annual Christian Values Summit, some 200 evangelicals met in the Granbury Resort Conference Center to consider America’s precipitous ...Read More
Legislators ‘Alarmed’ by State’s Refusing Birth Certificates for Children of Undocumented Parents
Two legislators have weighed in on the controversy over Texas’ refusal to grant birth certificates to some children of undocumented families. On Wednesday, Se...Read More