Texas Politics
The Untold Story of Perry’s Win
The National Review Online ran a wonderfully contrarian take yesterday on Rick Perry’s primary campaign. James Gimpel, a government professor at the Unive...Read More
Ain’t No Sunshine When He’s Gone
Campaign Trail
We won’t have Farouk Shami to push around anymore. The father of hair-straightening was plowed under by his gubernatorial opponent, former Houston Mayor B...Read More
Reality-Free Republicanism
If you own a TV, you would have to be the planet’s luckiest person to have avoided infinite viewings of Gov. Rick Perry’s closing commercial of the primary ...Read More
Free Us from the Free Market
If anything good were to come out of the economic destruction wrought upon us, it should be the death of the free-market myth that propelled decades of policyma...Read More
Post-Primary: New Questions and Fond Farewells
What did it all mean? The upshot of the Texas primary results will be parsed, spun and microanalyzed to a fine fare-thee-well over the next days and weeks. (See...Read More
State Board of Education Races: Running With the Wingnuts
UPDATED AT 12:25 a.m.: It seems the State Board of Education has taken a turn back toward the mainstream tonight. Of the four key races, the social conservative...Read More
Hidalgo County’s Voting Machine Meltdown
The Irish have a word for it “shenanigans.” Hidalgo County’s having voting glitches, folks, according to News Channel 5 in the Rio Grande Valley. The Hida...Read More
Linda with a Landslide
Shortly before 10:00 p.m. Linda Chavez-Thompson gave a celebratory speech in San Antonio claiming victory in the Lieutenant Governor’s race. While most of the...Read More
Republicans for Governor: Hutchison’s End Game
UPDATED AT 9:30: Sen. Hutchison’s long, deranged trip of a campaign has ended in defeat. In Dallas, she just addressed a small, glum gathering and called ...Read More
Democrats for Governor: White Night
UPDATED AT 9:25: Looking appropriately cheerful, Bill White just celebrated his huge victory in the Democratic primary for governor with what—for White—cons...Read More