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Tag Archives: George P. Bush

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by Justin Miller

What Texas Republicans Are (and Aren’t) Saying About Trump’s Family Separation Policy

While desperate immigrant families are torn apart and children sent to “tent cities” in Texas, most of the state’s prominent Republicans are more than happy to get behind Trump.

Mon, Jun 18, 2018 |

Over the past couple of weeks, the nation has been forced to confront the realities of President Trump’s goal of stopping immigration at the southern border w...Read More

George P. Bush

Students Play Hooky to Rally for School Choice

Fri, Jan 30, 2015 |

Billed as the largest school choice rally in Texas history, hundreds of people, mostly children in matching yellow scarves marched on the Capitol on Friday. ...Read More

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by Andrea Grimes

Breitbart Texas: All Thunder, No Rain

Tue, Sep 23, 2014 |

Breitbart Texas has imported an inside-the-Beltway model of smear “journalism” that’s blatantly partisan, enthusiastically flakkish and of a type not comm...Read More

by Christopher Hooks

George P. Bush on Climate Change: Yes, No, Maybe So

Thu, Sep 4, 2014 |

In which George P. Bush suggests he might be concerned about climate change, then runs from it, in less than a week....Read More

by Forrest Wilder

WTF Friday: Defending Creationalism

Fri, Dec 20, 2013 |

Three stocking stuffers for you this week in WTF Friday: Dewhurst and "creationalism," Steve Stockman and rodeo clows and George P. Bush gets humble....Read More

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