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Unlike Bush in mid-1999, no runaway GOP leader right now (including Perry)

By | 06.23.11 | 1:13 pm

A look at polling numbers illustrates how muddled the GOP presidential contest presently is, compared to the outlook at this point in the 2000 White House campaign, when then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush was already the clear frontrunner.

Current Texas Gov. Rick Perry may see the crowded field as evidence More…

Statesman, Chronicle put spotlight on Perry, TPPF, UT, A&M

By | 04.04.11 | 1:32 pm

Recently, the Austin American-Statesman and Houston Chronicle each ran a story summing up the controversy swirling around a conservative think tank’s influence on higher education policy at Texas’ major universities — and Gov. Rick Perry’s role in the narrative.

Read the Texas Independent‘s most recent story in More…

Houston Newspaper Attacks ‘Birthers’ in Texas House Delegation

By | 07.30.09 | 10:12 am

This is getting to be a theme today. The Houston Chronicle takes note of the six Texas Republican congressmen (the editorial was apparently written before Louie Gohmert joined in yesterday) who have co-sponsored Rep. Bill Posey’s (R-Fla.) “birther bill,” and chides the two members from the More…