Tag Archives: Rick Perry
The Radical Theology That Could Make Religious Freedom a Thing of the Past
Even devout Christians should fear these influential leaders' refusal to separate church and state.
Dominion theology explicitly rejects the United States' venerable separation of church and state, and Dan Patrick and the gang like it that way....Read More
Can the GOP Protect Us From Johnny Football and Dennis Hastert?
If the Republican Party is so concerned about 'safety,' it should ditch bigoted anti-trans bathroom bans and focus on a threat much closer to home.
Republicans are afroth about keeping women and children "safe" from a fabricated threat — trans people in bathrooms — meanwhile defending admitted abusers....Read More
Texas Lawmakers Aren’t Actually Supposed to Try to Make Things Worse, Right?
The state excels at creating solutions in search of problems, making life more difficult for the most marginalized Texans.
To me, it looks as though the problem the state has is with some Texans. Texans who aren’t wealthy white folks, or who aren’t likely to be turning up to vot...Read More
Eye on Texas: Texas Politics in Black and White
Heroes, villains and mediocrities, all captured on film.
From grainy, grim photos of early Texas patriarchs (Mirabeau Lamar, José Antonio Navarro) to Ann and Rick and W., Picturing Texas Politics is a thuddi...Read More
Adios, Mofo: Perry Cashes Out
Was Perry too good for this world, they’ll ask? Rick will be fine. He should know that politics is cruel: He’s been the one wielding the meat cleaver too ma...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
The Borderlands, So Far from Austin
Many a Lone Star politician has made, or boosted, his career by treating border communities as a theater of operations, where the normal rules don’t apply....Read More
Greater State: Rick Perry Emerges as GOP’s Voice of Reason
Maybe Rick Perry’s hipster glasses cleared up his vision in more ways than one. After a lifetime of governing Texas like a bully — and a brief period as a n...Read More
Meet the Millionaires and Billionaires Behind Ted Cruz, Rick Perry and Jeb Bush
Of the $217 million raised by the top 10 Republican presidential Super PACs, more than $50 million, or 23 percent, came from Texas. Some of them are well-known ...Read More