The Real Scandal with the IRS: Organizing for Action and the Chicago-style Misuse of Governmental Power
In recent posts I have addressed two distinct issues: the attempt by the Democratic Party to use new technology to nationalize the urban-machine approach to party building mastered in Chicago during the 20th Century; and the coerced conformity at the root of the modern progressive view of society. Now I want to show how these [...]
Texas House should just say no to giving driving permits to illegal aliens
On the surface, I suppose, it would be easy to agree with the proponents of giving driving permits to people in the state of Texas that either entered the country illegally or overstayed their visas and are here illegally. After all, we want drivers on our roads to be qualified and insured, right? But when [...]
Why did Texas news sites not publish the “Turnaround Specialists” school district bill number?
From KXAN in San Antonio, let’s put forth some questions. Do Texas news outlets know that in Texas, on BOTH sides of the political aisle, activists are very savvy on navigating the websites of news outlets that report on bills moving through the Texas Legislature? Do nervous Texas Legislators know citizen journalists & community activists [...]
Why Sheila Jackson Lee Interrupted Darrell Issa: Magner v Gallagher
As Mandy Nagy noted in her post on the Legal Insurrection blog, on May 15th the House Judiciary Committee (on which the CONGRESSWWOOMMAAANN sits) conducted an interview of Department of Social Justice Attorney General Eric Holder. One of the tense moments circulating on the web (and links via email into my inbox) that the Houston [...]
Abusive IRS Tactics Stymied the Katy Tea Party Leading up to the 2012 Election
Abuses like those other Tea Party groups suffered at the hands of the Internal Revenue Service stymied the Katy (Texas) Tea Party’s efforts at a critical time leading to the 2012 elections, said the group’s former president, Darcy Kahrhoff. Darcy this week disclosed the written demands different IRS offices issued from 2010 to 2012, detailing [...]
Secret tribunal bill, aka runaway grand jury bill, goes down
As I noted here, SB834 by Estes would have protected and even increased the possibility of runaway grand juries, such as the one in Judge Susan Brown’s 185th District Court. Fortunately, the Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee killed it by leaving it pending in committee. The only chance it has now of being revived is [...]
Will Houston’s version of Kermit Gosnell be investigated and charged?
As shocking as the photos and stories from ex-employees are in this report from Operation Rescue, I can’t say that I’m surprised: The three informants, Deborah Edge, Gigi Aguliar, and Krystal Rodriguez, have come forward to tell of their horrific experiences working for abortionist Douglas Karpen, at one of three of his Texas abortion clinics, [...]
Clear Lake Tea Party Reveals IRS Misconduct in 2010
Received this press release from the Clear Lake Tea Party: CONTACT: Mary Huls 832-618-6575 mhuls912@gmail.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Clear Lake Tea Party Reveals IRS Misconduct in 2010 May 20, 2013 (Clear Lake, TX) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) conducted an intrusive and illegal intelligence gathering and intimidation effort against the Clear Lake Tea Party (CLTP) [...]
The IRS Scandal and Obama’s Magical Kingdom
When I first saw the excerpts of President Obama’s commencement speech at The Ohio State University, I shook my head over what seemed to be his increasingly bitter and false critique of the conservative view of limited government. Then as the news of the IRS scandal expanded, including the local angle of its impact on [...]
Faux grassroots groups fear transparency, attack Texas Republicans
Do you call it hypocrisy when a group pretends to be grassroots but is actually funded by one person? Is it hypocrisy when these same faux grassroots groups demand transparency from politicians but want their own finances to remain protected under the cover of darkness? If it isn’t hypocrisy, what is it? The reason for [...]
Shoreacres voters take new direction, ousting incumbent council members
I rarely write about my little home city of Shoreacres because I live here and people get mighty upset when I say something they don’t agree with. But Saturday’s election is an example of what happens when incumbent politicians either do not listen to the citizens or are perceived as not listening to the citizens. [...]
A Jerry Patterson Double-Header
Last week’s NRA Convention brought a record 86,228 attendees to the George R. Brown Convention in Houston and, to kick off the excitement among Second Amendment civil freedom-lovers, Thursday May 2nd served as a “Jerry Patterson for Lieutenant Governor” double-header day Downtown. Current Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson spoke to a full house of Downtown Pachyderm [...]
Felicia Cravens declares candidacy for Harris County Republican Party Chair
Not totally surprised by this: As a tea party leader, I’ve wanted to be independent of the Republican Party for many reasons. I wanted to be free to hold Republicans accountable. I wanted to avoid the charge of being a Republican auxiliary. I wanted to focus on the core beliefs of tea party: fiscal responsibility, [...]
Republican Hispanic Citizens in Action Sends Children with Spina Bifida to Camp
“The beauty of our land is our legacy to our children. It must be protected by us so that they can pass it on intact to their children.” (Ronald Reagan, The New Republican Party, February 6, 1977) When was the last time you attended a Republican meeting where the focus was on the interests of [...]
OMG! Harris County Republican Party infiltrated by pasta!
I cannot even begin to tell you how disturbing this is: Follow Bill Kneer · 193 followers Yesterday at 7:22am near Houston · Apostasy can be defined ask a falling away or turning away from what you once believed. There are those who have embedded themselves within the local Republican party who are fighting So we change our core [...]
Fort Bend County GOP Joins Forces with Fort Bend Chinese-American Republicans
This past Wednesday the Fort Bend Chinese-American Republican Club held their first meeting. Club members had the opportunity to meet Fort Bend County Judge Robert Hebert, County Attorney Roy L. Cordes, Jr., and Fort Bend ISD Trustee Dave Rosenthal , founder of ISupportFBISD.org, who is running for re-election this May 11th. Some of the club [...]
Local Government: The GOP and the School District Dilemma
I want to follow-up on my last post about the importance of local government to the principles that we conservatives and Republicans hold dear, and to return to the issue of education reform as an example of the challenges we face at the local government level. To set the stage for this discussion, let’s establish [...]
Golf, Baseball, and Community Building
Recently, I became involved with a little league on the east side of Houston. When my son asked me if he could play baseball I chose this little league because it was the one I played in when I was his age. It is the Magnolia National Little League, located at Hildago park. Needless to [...]
Pigford Seminar Location Served as 2010 Sheila Jackson Lee Campaign HQ
What do Big Jolly Politics, Breitbart, and the Houston Chronicle all have in common? All three now share a bond through coverage of the Pigford Fraud scandal. After Lee Stranahan of Breitbart wrote about the Houston Chronicle’s advertisement of the Pigford Workshop held at the Communications Workers of America union hall, he called for May [...]
Lessons I learned Over the last Few Days
It goes without saying that some days or weeks are more eventful and consequential than others, and that we often don’t fully appreciate the full impact of such moments in time until long after they occur. As I have been trying to make sense of everything I have witnessed over the last 10 days, a [...]
