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After First Laughing Off Recession, Gov. Perry Admits 'This Whole Country's In A Recession'
Seeded on Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:48 PM EDT (Think Progress)
Perry admitted that Texas has been "shedding jobs" in the oil and gas industries and pins the blame on federal decision-makers.
texas, economy, politics, gop, republicans, perry, depression, capitalism, recession, rightwingers, rightwingnutjobs
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Perry refuses to apologize for his consultant's remark that Hutchison is making the GOP into a 'whorehouse.'
Seeded on Wed May 20, 2009 12:15 PM EDT (Think Progress)
On Saturday, the Dallas Morning News published an article about the battle between Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Gov. Rick Perry for the Republican spot in the Texas gubernatorial election.
texas, conservatives, politics, gop, republicans, perry, hutchison, rightwingers, neo-confederates, rightwingnutjobs, gop-whorehouse
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Houston Teabaggers List Corporate Lobbyists as Sponsors & Glenn Reynolds Looks Like a Fool
Seeded on Fri Apr 17, 2009 2:48 PM EDT (Firedoglake)
Just go read Gavin. When you're done, come back and read about Americans for Prosperity (listed on the Houston Tea Party site as "local sponsor") and its President, Tim Phillips:
texas, conservatives, politics, gop, republicans, houston, lobbyists, rightwingers, glenn-reynolds, rightwingnutjobs, teabaggers
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DeLay defends Gov. Perry, explains how Texas could secede from the Union.
Seeded on Thu Apr 16, 2009 6:25 PM EDT (Think Progress)
Yesterday, Texas Gov.
delay, texas, politics, perry, secession
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Beck endorses Texas secession.
Seeded on Thu Apr 16, 2009 3:00 PM EDT (Think Progress)
While speaking at a "tea party" yesterday, Texas governor Rick Perry (R) suggested that his state might have to secede "if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people." Last night on Fox News, Beck seemed to agree with Perry's call, insisting that …
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NYT Editorial: Evolutionary Semantics, Texas-Style
Seeded on Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:01 AM EDT (The New York Times)
The Texas Board of Education gave grudging support last week to teaching the mainstream theory of evolution without the most troubling encumbrances sought by religious and social conservatives.
texas, evolution, conservatives, education, intelligent-design, creationism, editorials, the-new-york-times, edits, rightwingers, sound-science, rightwingnutjobs
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The iron fist in Texas is on his way out
Seeded on Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:04 PM EST (People's Weekly World )
The iron fist in Texas is on his way out. No, not George Bush. Texas House Speaker Republican Tom Craddick has withdrawn his candidacy for a fourth term as Speaker of the Texas State House of Representatives.
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Guns for Texas school's teachers
Seeded on Sat Aug 16, 2008 2:48 PM EDT (BBC News)
Teachers in one part of the US state of Texas are to be allowed to carry concealed firearms when the new school term opens this month.
texas, guns, us-news, texas-schools, teachers-guns, concealed-firearms
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Why Doctors Are Heading for Texas
Seeded on Sat May 17, 2008 3:54 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)
From the WSJ: When Sam Houston was still hanging his hat in Tennessee in the 1830s, it wasn't uncommon for fellow Tennesseans who were packing up and moving south and west to hang a sign on their cabins that read "GTT" – Gone to Texas.
texas, doctors, wall-street-journal, us-news, tort-reform, malpractice-insurance
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Evolution Debate Led to Ouster, Official Says
Seeded on Fri Nov 30, 2007 8:23 AM EST (The New York Times)
The [Texas] state's director of science curriculum said she resigned this month under pressure from officials who said she had given the appearance of criticizing the teaching of intelligent design.
texas, evolution, intelligent-design, us-news, creationism
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