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Perry & Texas, less than meets the eye
June 19, 2013; Updated: 11:58 pm
Texas Gov. Rick Perry appeared to be a strong contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. Conservatives pointed to his low-regulation, pro-business agenda for helping Texas weather the recession and quickly recover.
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Steering a better course for the Amistad
June 18, 2013; Updated: 11:10 pm
The state Senate found ample time in the recent legislative session to figure out how to spend taxpayer money, but it ran out of time when it came to passing a law that would provide better accountability about how that money is spent. How... The fallout continues from the Boy Scouts of America's decision on May 23 to allow gay youths to join the century-old organization, with camps divided on whether the change in policy goes too far or not far enough. By reversing its...
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Lembo law needed June 17, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm
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Altering history, and other silliness June 16, 2013; Updated: 1:22 am
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Scouts half-measure satisfies few June 14, 2013; Updated: 6:56 pm
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Stop overpaying the hospitals
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Two recent newspaper editorials illustrate the double-mindedness some feel about President Obama's decision to provide small arms and ammunition to Syrian rebels.
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If you've been following the fallout from the NSA surveillance revelations, you may have seen repeated reference to a certain "recent MIT study." "Unique in the Crowd: The Privacy Bounds of Human Mobility," published in Nature's Scientific...
COMMENTS (0)Prop 13: Message from another time
If the national tax revolt has bookends, the first bracket was placed 35 years ago this month. That's when California voters passed Proposition 13, a law curbing tax increases.
Of course, taxes have been a subject of complaint in this land...
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