News analysts described Gov. Rick Perry as the Tea Party darling when he announced his bid for the presidency. But at a recent Tea Party gathering in Waco, that status seemed tenuous.
Chris Hooks
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Tea Partiers Hear From Senate Candidates — Except Dewhurst
Five of the declared Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison met in Waco on Saturday night for a wide-ranging forum notable for the absence of the frontrunner, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst.
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Criminal Justice
Court Rules Against Individual Health Care Mandate
A federal appeals court today ruled that the individual insurance mandate in President Obama’s health care reform plan is unconstitutional, a decision Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott lauded as a step toward ending “Obamacare.”
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HuffPo Publishes Perry’s College Transcript
The Huffington Post published a copy of Rick Perry’s college transcript today — and it’s fair to say the governor barely made the grade.
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Energy
State Climatologist: Drought Officially Worst On Record
It’s official: Texas is now in the midst of the worst one-year drought on record, according to State Climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon.
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Aggie Years Launched Perry — and a Rivalry
At Texas A&M University in the late 1960s, a campus culture shift pitted Rick Perry, then a traditionalist cadet, against several other future Texas politicians who were reform-minded civilians.
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Energy
EPA Issues New Standards for Hydraulic Fracturing
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday issued new regulatory standards for oil and gas wells that use hydraulic fracturing.
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Perry, Lawmakers Blast Obama Over Shuttle Retirement
Texas lawmakers marked the end the of shuttle program and criticized NASA’s course on Thursday, hours after the shuttle Atlantis landed in Florida. Gov. Rick Perry singled out President Obama for criticism.
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The Final Frontier for Space City?
Houston’s official nickname since 1967: Space City. It’s NBA team: the Rockets. Its MLB franchise is the Astros, and they played in the Astrodome. No wonder the city is in a funk as space shuttle Atlantis makes its final landing today.
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Criminal Justice
Perry Blasts New Federal Gun Rules
Gov. Rick Perry is attacking new Department of Justice reporting requirements for gun dealers in states on the U.S.-Mexico border, calling the new rules “misguided” and “constitutionally questionable.”