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October 21, 2014
Ebola in Dallas: October 21
With 17 days until the last person in direct contact with one of Dallas' three Ebola patients finishes monitoring, here's the latest: The condition of the patients: Amber Vinson's mother, Debra Berry, discussed her daughter's condition on Good Morning America early Tuesday. Mom says Vinson remains ... More >>
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September 8, 2014
Is This the Best Rick Perry Photo of All Time?
This morning, Texas Governor Rick Perry tweeted a photo encapsulating what is no doubt a very special approach to international relations. The picture largely speaks for itself, but let's ponder some of the major questions.
Blogs
August 29, 2014
Rick Perry Feels the Love at Americans for Prosperity Summit
The irony that Americans For Prosperity's Defending the American Dream summit is being held in a hotel paid for with taxpayer funds can be a little overwhelming. Everyone you talk to opposes regulation and taxes with a religious fervor while at the same time praising the setting and the glory of Gov ... More >>
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August 22, 2014
You Can Now Buy a Rick Perry Mugshot T-Shirt from Your Friends at RickPAC
Continuing to make hay while the sun shines, RickPAC, our esteemed governor's political action committee, is now selling T-shirts featuring his mugshot. See also: Rick Perry Wisely Strikes Back with Video Targeting Travis County DA The shirts, available for a minimum donation of $25, feature the a ... More >>
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August 20, 2014
Our Favorite Rick Perry Mugshots
Now, we're not sure if you live on the moon, under a rock, or under a rock on the moon, but you probably noticed Rick Perry handed himself in yesterday to face his indictment on felony charges for abuse of power. If you've ever heard of a thing called "Twitter," you may also have noticed that Rick h ... More >>
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August 19, 2014
Rick Perry, Second Coming or Poker-Cheating Cannibal? Who the Hell Knows?
This is a first. In an editorial this morning The New York Times is defending Rick Perry. Sort of. They offer major caveats, calling him, "one of the least thoughtful and most damaging state leaders in America, having done great harm to immigrants, abortion clinics and people without health insuran ... More >>
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August 19, 2014
Rick Perry Wisely Strikes Back with Video Targeting Travis County DA
That image you see above is of a surprising email that just hit my (and probably yours) inbox from RickPac, Governor Rick Perry's federal political action committee. The surprising part isn't that Perry's PAC is using his recent indictment to solicit contributions. All's fair ... when life gives y ... More >>
Blogs
July 21, 2014
Perry Will Cement That Strong National Image If He Sends the Guard to the Border
The Austin American-Statesmanand The Houston Chronicle this morning are reporting that Governor Rick Perry will hold a press conference this afternoon to announce he's sending 1,000 Texas National Guard troops to the Mexican border to defend Texas against an invasion of unarmed Central American chil ... More >>
Blogs
June 17, 2014
Rick Perry Doubles Down on Stupid Talking About Conversion Therapy
We should probably be used to it by now. Governor Rick Perry went on CNBC earlier this week and said something that, were it to have come from anyone else, would've been stunning for its intellectual dishonesty. In the midst of an interview, which you can see in full below, Perry told Squawk Box's ... More >>
Blogs
June 13, 2014
More Or Less Everyone Agrees That Rick Perry Is a Moron for Comparing Homosexuality to Alcoholism
If nothing else, Rick Perry deserves points for hubris. In California to stump up business for Texas -- including a proposed factory to build batteries for Teslas -- the governor responded to questions about the Texas GOP platform's endorsement of dangerous reparative therapy for LGBTQ individuals ... More >>
Blogs
June 2, 2014
Perry Breaks Wind Over Obama's Carbon Cuts
Staff in Governor Rick Perry's office must have had a case of the Mondays. It was noon before we got his emailed statement blasting the Obama administration's proposal to cut carbon emissions from power plants 30 percent from 2005 levels over the next 15 years. Seriously? That was, like, hours, and ... More >>
Blogs
January 23, 2014
Texas Governor Rick Perry Is Still a Long Way From Legalizing Pot
It's not often that Texas Governor Rick Perry has occasion to wax at length about his views on drug policy, but when you find yourself in Davos, Switzerland, on a World Economic Forum panel devoted to the "drug dilemma," there isn't much else to talk about. This morning's discussion (it was late ev ... More >>
Blogs
January 21, 2014
Sean Hannity Might Move to Texas, and Governor Rick Perry is Wooing Him Hard
As far as we know, Texas Governor Rick Perry and conservative radio host Sean Hannity are still staunchly opposed to gay marriage. That said, it was impossible to glean that from the way they cooed over one another on Hannity's radio show this afternoon. Hannity, you see, is planning to flee his na ... More >>
Blogs
October 30, 2013
Who Stands to Benefit From the Prop 6 Water Infrastructure Fund Run By Gov. Rick Perry's Loyalists?
Texans are set to decide whether to ratify a constitutional amendment creating a $2 billion water infrastructure fund, billed as the answer to a growing and drought-vulnerable state. It'll finance new dams, reservoirs, desalinization plants and the development of new groundwater supplies. As we sa ... More >>
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September 27, 2013
Months After Vetoing Disclosure Bill, Rick Perry Gets a New Dark Money Group
The cover story for Governor Rick Perry's feud with California Governor Jerry Brown, his job-poaching trip to Missouri and his visit to a Maryland gun manufacturer the day after this month's Navy Yard shooting, is that he's bolstering the Texas economy by spreading the state's low-tax gospel and woo ... More >>
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September 20, 2013
The Top Four Reasons Rick Perry Toured a Gun Factory the Day After a Mass Shooting
You are a governor of a big state. Someone just shot and killed more than a dozen people in the nation's capital. Question: Should you tour a gun factory the next day? If you're Rick Perry, the clear answer is yes. As part of his job-poaching tour in Maryland, he took a look Wednesday around the Be ... More >>
Blogs
September 5, 2013
Ever Wonder What Rick Perry Would Look Like Gobbling Dozens of Tampons?
This summer saw a bit of a kerfuffle around abortion in Texas. Emotions may run high on both sides, but we can all agree that Governor Rick Perry has taken a heavy-handed interest in the goings-on of Texas vaginas. It even caught the attention of noted gentleman-scholar Blowfly. The usually tasteful ... More >>
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August 14, 2013
The Seven Sexiest Guitars in Texas (And the People Who Play Them)
From Keith Richards and his swagger to Jimmy Page with his operatic solos, sexy guitarists have been dominating our minds for more than four decades now, causing fans to riot as if the guitarist itself exuded something magical. In the '50s, Beatle-mania forced police to wear riot gear while thousand ... More >>
Blogs
July 8, 2013
Whatever Rick Perry's Plans Are, Being Tough on Abortion Seems Very Important to Them
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Later today, Governor Rick Perry will take the stage in San Antonio and tell the world of his future plans, while cable-news producers "real" and "fake" wait with bated office-coffee breath. The Morning News on Sunday laid out the pros and cons of three p ... More >>
Blogs
July 8, 2013
Rick Perry Won't Seek Re-Election, Plans to Spend More Time with His Campaign Donors
Rick Perry will not seek a fourth term as Texas governor, he announced this afternoon. He will spend the next 18 months "working to create more jobs" and will "pray and reflect and work to determine my own future path," he said. He did not rule out another run for president, and the speech -- whic ... More >>
Blogs
July 5, 2013
Texans Are Tired of Rick Perry, Totally Heart Ted Cruz and Still Support Paula Deen
The Koch Bros might be emptying their change purses in order to keep Texas from tinting blue, but the state is in no danger of becoming a real battleground, new polling suggests. Also: People continue to think in large numbers that other states should not mess with Texas. Also: That's a weird questi ... More >>
Blogs
July 2, 2013
Poll: Texans Still Don't Particularly Like Rick Perry, but He'd Whip Senator Wendy Davis in Gubernatorial Race
Senator Wendy Davis stood beneath the dome for 11 hours in Mizuno sneakers (and, quite possibly, adult diapers) filibustering abortion legislation that could have shuttered all but a handful of providers. At one point nearly 200,000 tuned into watch, until three rather sketchy points of order brough ... More >>
Blogs
June 27, 2013
"She was a Teenage Mother Herself" -- Rick Perry Says Wendy Davis Should Know Better Than to Support Abortion
Now that the euphoria that followed Wendy Davis' Senate filibuster two nights ago has faded, Democrats are back to facing the likelihood that the Republicans' death grip on state government isn't going to loosen easily or soon. As the Texas Tribune's Jay Root explains, Republicans embarrassed themse ... More >>
Blogs
June 25, 2013
State Senator Wendy Davis Just Started Her Epic, All-Day Filibuster Against Abortion Restrictions
When, in the wee hours of Monday morning, House Republicans ended debate and pushed through one of the toughest anti-abortion bills in the country, it seemed destined to sail on to Governor Rick Perry's desk. It merely needed the OK from the Senate, which shouldn't be a problem given that they'd jus ... More >>
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June 17, 2013
Perry Vetoes Modest, Mincing Reform of Texas' Political Aspirant "Springboard" (Aka the Railroad Commission)
In case you missed it, Gov. Rick Perry used his veto Friday to override the bipartisan will of the legislature, which sought to inject the most meager, almost universally agreeable ethics reform into the state oil and gas regulator. They attempted to do this because the Railroad Commission of Texas ... More >>
Blogs
June 14, 2013
Governor Perry Signs Bill Requiring Drug Testing For Unemployment Benefits
Governor Rick Perry signed a bill into law today that will require people applying for unemployment benefits to submit to a drug test, if their responses to a screening questionnaire indicate possible drug use, the Texas Tribune reports. (Those questions will likely include: "Which Cheech and Chong ... More >>
Blogs
June 12, 2013
Texas GOP's Sophisticated Plan to Pass Special Session Anti-Abortion Bills: Cheating
Remember how Governor Rick Perry called a special session to talk about redistricting? And remember how sophisticated political observers (i.e. everyone with eyes and a functioning brain) predicted that the special session would soon turn into a huge, nasty dogfight about abortion? Yeah, that's happ ... More >>
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June 6, 2013
All Those Anti-Abortion Bills that Failed Resurface in Legislature's Special Session
This session in the Texas Legislature was sort of stupid, but then again, they usually are. Although they did manage to pass a budget, their main piece of business each session, your esteemed lawmakers also spent time approving such vital pieces of legislation as the "Merry Christmas Bill" . They al ... More >>
Blogs
May 30, 2013
The First U.S.-Made Smartphone Will Be Built in North Texas
There's still some debate over whether the return of manufacturing to the U.S. -- "reshoring," it's called -- is a lasting trend or just a bump on the road toward an entirely knowledge-based economy. Some experts suggest it's merely a byproduct of the recession. But there's no doubt that it's happen ... More >>
Blogs
May 1, 2013
Rick Perry Gives Small California Gun Shop a Warm Texas Welcome
It's thirsty work being Rick Perry. You have to stand in the warm May sun outside a gun shop and wax poetic about the virtues of firearms, laissez-faire capitalism and how much California blows. It's no wonder then that you would promptly hightail it across town to the local brewery. After all, what ... More >>
Blogs
March 6, 2013
Poll: Majority of Texans Favor Both "Fetal Pain" Proposal and Abortion Rights
Yesterday, Collin County state Representative Jodie Laubenberg filed a bill that would ban all abortions after 20 weeks, calling it the "Preborn Pain Act." The bill is premised on deeply questionable science which claims that fetuses can feel pain at that point in a pregnancy, and ignores a heap of ... More >>
Blogs
February 12, 2013
Californians Are Flocking to Texas, But, Hard as Rick Perry May Try, Their Businesses Aren't
Governor Rick Perry is in California this week as part of his campaign to lure businesses to Texas, attempting to finish in person what his radio ads started. In an interview with the San Jose Mercury News Perry said that California Governor Jerry Brown's comments that Perry's radio ad was "a fart ... More >>
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February 6, 2013
California Is Not Amused By Rick Perry's Open Invitation to "Come Check Out Texas"
On February 4 a 30-second radio ad featuring none other than Governor Rick Perry started its week-long run in six California cities. The ad features the governor's voice tempting the state's businesses to relocate to Texas: "Building a business is tough, but I hear building a business in California ... More >>
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February 4, 2013
Rick Perry is Pretty Sure Lifting its Gay Ban Will Destroy Scouting
The debate over whether Boy Scouts of America should allow gay members and volunteers will come to a head this week, as the organization's board of directors descends on Irving for its regular meeting. They will be greeted by a full-page Human Rights Campaign ad in the Dallas Morning New and a quar ... More >>
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January 10, 2013
Rick Perry's "Abysmal" Poll Numbers Put Him Dead Last among 2016 Presidential Candidates
Governor Rick Perry has been coy about his plans for 2016 leaving the door open for a second presidential bid but remaining noncommittal. His epic flameout in 2012, one supposes, might be written off as a fluke. The man who had never lost an election was overly confident and thus under prepared. He ... More >>
News
December 27, 2012
Burn It All Down
Buzz looks back on 2012 before the memories go where they belong: up in smoke.
Blogs
December 11, 2012
Rick Perry Supports "Fetal Pain" Measure, Vows to Make Abortion a "Thing of the Past"
Perhaps you were hoping that the upcoming legislative session wouldn't be yet another round of conservative lawmakers vying with one another to show just how deeply and sincerely anti-abortion they are. Or maybe that's exactly what you look for in a lawmaker: an eagle eye and a vise grip on every Te ... More >>
Blogs
October 2, 2012
Rick Perry's Sales Pitch for Cheaper, Dumber Universities Is a Lie
All you ambitious students out there, please take time to understand what Governor Rick Perry is really doing to you when he says he wants to help you graduate from college. It's the opposite. See also: - Rick Perry's Manufactured Miracle What Perry really wants to do is the same old thing he has ... More >>
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September 20, 2012
At the Opening of a Houston Pregnancy Center, Rick Perry Pledges To Help "Make Abortion A Thing of the Past"
Governor Rick Perry, it may shock you to learn, is not such a big fan of abortion. Perry vowed some time ago to create a new, Texas-run version of the Women's Health Program, one that would ban doctors from discussing or "promoting" abortion with their patients. It would also explicitly bar Planned ... More >>
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August 21, 2012
Rick Perry: "Aliens" Still Not Eligible for Public Benefits In Texas
It's a pretty basic equation: When the Obama administration does something, Governor Rick Perry's against it. When at all possible, his administration will refuse to implement in Texas whatever policy change the feds have made. Expanding Medicaid? He's not going to do it here, no matter how many mil ... More >>
Blogs
July 9, 2012
Perry Says NO-bamacare for Texas
This morning, in a move about as surprising as the sun rising, Governor Rick Perry came out with guns blazing against the Affordable Health Care Act, recently approved (mostly) by the U.S. Supreme Court. The act's expanded Medicaid coverage for the poor will not be implemented in Perry's state, de ... More >>
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June 12, 2012
Texas Democrats Make Fun of Republicans with Weird Animated Video, Santorum Jokes
Someone has shown the Texas Democratic Party the video creator apps on YouTube, and the results are Lego George W. Bush, a joke about santorum (the frothy kind), a version of Rick Perry that looks like a rotund funeral home director and some jabs at sweater vests. Politicians, please start making ... More >>
Blogs
March 28, 2012
Governor Rick Perry Hearts Pink Slime
Governor Rick Perry publicly endorsed "lean, finely textured beef" today. Governors from Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and the Lt. Gov. Matt Michels, standing in for South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard, who is in China, jointly issued the statement intending to clarify public perception of "pink slime." P ... More >>
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March 22, 2012
Rick Perry On Fox News: "We're Spending Most Of Our Time In The Courthouse Suing The Federal Government "
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Rick Perry dropped by Fox News early this morning to let Steve Doocy know just how happy he is to be your governor. In less than five minutes, he also managed to find the time to diss the feds and defend the voter ID law. Doocy asked if Perry would acce ... More >>
Blogs
March 20, 2012
"It's Getting Rather Messy": The Best of the Rick Perry Facebook Bomb
Over at the Morning News' Trail Blazers Blog, Christy Hoppe pointed out late yesterday that Rick Perry's Facebook page has been "inundated by angry women" unhappy about the end of the Medicaid Women's Health Program. Perry's Facebook bomb is actually part of a larger effort to "sarcasm-flood" the ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2012
Federal Medicaid Agency Lays Out Just How The Women's Health Program Will End
What prompted Governor Rick Perry's frenzied bout of outraged tweeting about the Women's Health Program yesterday? As much as we'd like to speculate that it was a bad batch of PCP (and will continue to do so privately, purely for our own amusement, not because it's at all true), it was actually one ... More >>
Blogs
March 12, 2012
Eddie Bernice Johnson on Rick Perry: "I Don't Even Know This Governor Anymore"
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, who worked as a nurse before heading to Washington, dropped by Martin Bashir's show on MSNBC to denounce Governor Rick Perry's stance toward Planned Parenthood (and to call Rush Limbaugh "un-American".) "I don't even know this governor anymore," the congresswoman says in ... More >>
Blogs
March 10, 2012
Rick Perry Vows to Save the Medicaid Women's Health Program from the Evil Feds
Update, March 10: Federal Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced late Friday in Houston that federal funding to the WHP would be cut. She said the program will wind down over the next several months, and that the feds are considering funding Planned Parenthood directly. In r ... More >>
Blogs
March 2, 2012
Rick Perry and State Health Commissioner Insist Obama Hates Women, Loves Abortion
A few days ago, we told you that Texas's Medicaid Women's Health Program appears to be on death's door, which could leave some 130,000 low-income Texas women without vital medical care. We also mentioned that Gov. Rick Perry's administration appeared eager to blame the program's end on the feds broa ... More >>
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February 21, 2012
Rick Perry Is Back in Austin Doin' Nothin', and That's Right Where We Want Him
Final Rick Perry-for-President footnote? Next to last? Please, no more? Look, there's one more point to drive home here. Then I think I can promise not to mention it again. I think I can. Now that he's not running for president any more, Perry apparently has returned to his more natural status of v ... More >>
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