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Rand Paul, who has surprised a lot of people by becoming a real contender for a U.S. Senate seat in Kentucky, bows to political reality — he’s blasting the Obama administration’s policy on terror trials and proposing to “try, convict, and lock up terrorists in Guantanamo.”
Paul’s father, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), is one of the [...]

Not the blue states.
There are roughly 46 million people living in America without health insurance coverage, representing about 15 percent of the nation’s population, according to the most recent numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau. But they aren’t distributed evenly around the country.

“This bill represents a textbook example of how not to deal with the economic challenges that our country faces,” said Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas).

Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas), who’s become something of an icon to the Tea Party movement with his unapologetic defenses of the 10th Amendment and states rights–probably culminating with his April 15 remarks that seemed to endorse Texas secession–gave a lively speech to the Value Voters Summit that was fascinating for its specificity. Perry spoke without [...]

Speaking of Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) — who apparently is weighing a run for the Senate seat being vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) — Kate just passed along the all-time money-est Barton quote ever (and that’s saying something) about how wind power might aggravate climate change. From a March 10 House Energy and Commerce [...]

Last week, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) invited the public, via Twitter, to join him for a Texas A&M football game in October. The suite was reserved, he said. All you need to do is bring $2,000.
Yesterday we learned why Barton, the senior Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee who won his last [...]

In the Texas gubernatorial race, a new Rasmussen Reports survey of Texas Republicans finds Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) falling slightly behind Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) for the first time this year. Hutchison leads 40-38; in the summer, Perry led by 10 points.
How is this happening despite Perry holding huge job approval numbers among GOP [...]

Little evidence backs claims that medical malpractice suits are driving up health care costs.

Conservatives who attended a town hall meeting with Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) have uploaded video of her being peppered with questions, including this one from a man named Ed Dickey. (It’s at the seven-minute mark.)
During the 1950s it’s admitted that the federal government engaged in what is called the Tuskegee Experiments, where they injected [...]

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 city’s suburbs.

A group of five Texas congressmen, including Reps. [...]