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Texas congressmen, recipients of AT&T cash, dial in support for T-Mobile merger

By | 10.10.11 | 2:10 pm

Image by Matt MahurinA Texas congressman is behind a letter sent to President Barack Obama last month disagreeing with the U.S. Department of Justice’s choice to block the merger between AT&T and T-Mobile, a deal that would give the nation’s largest wireless carrier an even greater share of the market.

Conservative Media Mogul Plays Defense on Racism Story

By | 02.05.10 | 11:00 am

On Wednesday morning, Salon.com published “James O’Keefe’s Race Problem,” an article by author Max Blumenthal that dug into the past of the 25-year-old activist whose hidden camera sting of ACORN offices devastated the community organizing group. Blumenthal described O’Keefe’s career as “a series of More…

Congressman Who Sponsored Resolution Honoring O’Keefe Criticizes the Landrieu Sting

By | 01.26.10 | 6:12 pm

In October, freshman Rep. Pete Olson (R-Texas) introduced a resolution honoring James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles for their ACORN sting. Thirty-one Republicans co-sponsored the resolution. Tonight, I asked Olson’s office whether the resolution would be withdrawn and got this response:

Individuals who lawfully expose wrongful activities by an entity

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Ailes 2012: The Early Odds

By | 10.28.09 | 10:41 am

Five days after Mike Allen reported that friends of Fox News creator Roger Ailes wanted him to run for president, and four-and-a-half days since Ailes laughed the story off, the Ailes-for-president bubble–as ridiculous as it seems–is still serving as a way for conservatives to frame what they see More…

Resolution to Honor ACORN Sting Video Stalls Out

By | 10.28.09 | 9:22 am

At the beginning of the month, with very little fanfare, Rep. Pete Olson (R-Texas), a freshman member who holds Tom DeLay’s old seat, introduced H. Res 809 to honor James O’Keefe III and Hannah Giles, the young conservatives who filmed the ACORN sting that grabbed headlines More…

NY-23: DeMint Endorses Hoffman, Pete Olson Holds His Fire

By | 10.27.09 | 4:22 pm

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) gives the exclusive to RedState – the third such exclusive a conservative leader has given to that blog, by my count.

America needs more people like Doug Hoffman, Pat Toomey, and Marco Rubio to run for office and bring real reform to Washington. Americans fundamentally

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