Gov. Rick Perry, who bitterly clashed with Mitt Romney on the Republican presidential primary campaign trail, voted for the former Massachusetts governor Wednesday and predicted he would prevail in November.... Read more»
Smart v. Stupid: As America grapples with a long-term decline, we have only Ronald Reagan to blame.... Read more»4
Citing an unprecedented level of unaccompanied illegal-immigrant minors breaching the U.S.-Mexico border, Gov. Rick Perry sent a letter Friday asking the Obama administration to address the “humanitarian crisis.”... Read more»
A district judge in Austin has ordered Texas to temporarily stop its enforcement of a rule that would have removed 49 Planned Parenthood clinics from the state’s Medicaid Women’s Health Program starting May 1.... Read more»
Rick Santorum is hoping a speech at a Jelly Belly factory will bring in needed campaign funds.... Read more»
Despite high emotions, strategic media campaigns and moral outrage, neither side in the debate over women’s health care in Texas was blindsided by the fight.... Read more»
A federal court on Wednesay upheld a lower court’s decision that a city ordinance banning illegal immigrants from renting housing in a Dallas suburb was unconstitutional.... Read more»1
Women are flooding Rick Perry’s presidential campaign Facebook page with angry comments over his efforts to defund Planned Parenthood.... Read more»1
Reaction to the news that the Department of Justice has rejected the state’s request for preclearance of its controversial voter ID law was swift and partisan, as expected.... Read more»
Millions of dollars are flowing to super PACs. Exactly who is donating, and what do they want?... Read more»
Texas, the state that led America in the largest number of executions last year, might be running out of the lethal drug used to administer the death penalty.... Read more»
After their first meeting with Joe Allbaugh, Rick Perry loyalists were left unimpressed. The competent Allbaugh of political legend — the one who had so effectively run George W. Bush’s 2000 campaign, a logistics man who had been part of the former president’s “Iron Triangle” — wasn’t the one who’d shown up.... Read more»
As the South Carolina primary revs up, it’s worth taking a step back and considering all the confusing names for super PACs, and all the confusing money that might be spent in the coming months.... Read more»
Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich used Thursday night’s lively CNN TV debate to criticize the media and deny a report that he asked his former wife for an “open marriage.”... Read more»1
Rick Perry, who jumped into the presidential race in August and shot to the front of the crowded field, dropped out of the race Thursday. He endorsed former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. An advisor said Perry might run again.... Read more»
There is no established fine for offenders of rules against coordination of PACs and candidates. It is up to the six-member FEC — split evenly between Republicans and Democrats — to decide on punishment, and punishment is rare.... Read more»
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