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Secretary of Energy Rick Perry sparked disbelief on Twitter Thursday after he tried to offer an economics lesson while touring a coal plant in West Virginia. "Here's a little economics lesson: supply and demand. You put the supply out there and the demand will follow," Perry said, responding to a question about a shale gas boom in comments captured by S&P Global Market Intelligence reporter Taylor Kuykendall.

HOUSTON — In the final hours before the vote at Texas A&M for student body president, Jose Luis Zelaya shook a few more hands, asked for few more votes, and proudly explained to those who inquired why he can be an Aggie and an illegal immigrant. Zelaya, 24, is a graduate education student in College Station. He came to the U.S. from Honduras with his mom when he was 14, graduated from Langham Creek High School in Houston and dreamed of being an Aggie from the first day his mom found an “Aggie Mom” t-shirt when, homeless, she stayed at...

A source on the Rick Perry campaign tells Hot Air that the Texas governor conducted some Texas-size fundraising in the third quarter. Coming in just a little over halfway through, Perry raised $17.1 million. That number would put Perry somewhere between $4-6 million ahead of Mitt Romney’s rumored total for Q3, according to this report last week from the Boston Globe. It’s also likely to far outpace Herman Cain’s fundraising or that of the other Republicans currently in the race. The pace is even more impressive. Perry had 49 days in which to raise funds, rather than the full 92...

COLLEGE STATION — When Rick Perry arrived at Texas A&M University in 1968, it was at the end of a summer in which Soviet troops crushed the Prague Spring, protesters at the Democratic National Convention were met by a police riot and the United States reeled from the twin assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. With its conservative culture, military tradition and focus on agriculture, few places in the U.S. might have seemed more insulated from the prevailing currents of the age. But A&M was in the midst of its own political awakening. Facing falling enrollment,...

Jul 20, 2011 — Will the Texas governor elbow his way into the crowded presidential race? Longtime Perry watcher Evan Smith of the Texas Tribune talks about why he thinks Perry will run and what kind of candidate he'd be. [snip] We spoke with the Texas Tribune's Evan Smith about the man he has followed since the early 1990s. A former editor of Texas Monthly magazine, Smith says he's convinced Perry will make a run at the White House, and tells us why other Republican hopefuls should be worried.

A team of Texas A&M students will be heading to Austin to lobby state legislatures to support the concealed carry on campus bill on behalf of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. The group has yet to determine a date of departure. Though Senate Bill 354 was rejected in 2009 by state legislatures, the issue is being readdressed. One of the primary authors is Republican Sen. Jeff Wentworth of San Antonio, who said those who carry concealed handguns on campus would hinder a shooter from acting. The officers of the group said arming students and staff would make campus safer....

The Supreme Court today refused to consider whether the mother of a Texas A&M student injured in a deadly bonfire collapse nearly a decade ago can sue because of the damage to her relationship to her son. The high court refused to hear an appeal from Nancy Braus, who sued Texas A&M University officials and others after her son Dominic was injured in the Nov. 18, 1999 log pile collapse that killed 12 people and injured 27. Lower courts have thrown out Braus’ lawsuit, saying Texas law does not allow a parent to sue for the loss of a normal...

This is the video uncovered during recovery from last seasons debacle called "football season".

Longhorn Parody Continues With Minor Changes COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS: Aggieland Outfitters, located near the campus of Texas A&M University, announced today its owners have successfully settled a lawsuit brought by The University of Texas to stop sales of merchandise bearing the “SAW ‘EM OFF” logo, which parodies UT’s longhorn mascot. In the settlement, UT agreed that Fadi Kalaouze and his parent company Kalcorp could continue using the “SAW ‘EM OFF” logo, if they made minor changes that further distinguished it from UT’s longhorn trademark. The agreed-upon changes include adding a small blaze and nostrils to the steer’s face. “I am...

WASHINGTON — Cotton, for thousands of years one of the most important crops for clothing and shelter, might also become a source of food. A chemical called gossypol makes cottonseed inedible for humans, though some of it is used in feed for cattle, which are less affected by the toxin. Now, researchers at Texas A&M University have genetically modified cotton to produce seeds with little or no gossypol. It's a step they say could help provide valuable protein to millions of people. Their findings are reported in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Keerti Rathore of...

Man Who Inspired Aggie Muster Dies A retired Army colonel who told the story of an Aggie Muster ceremony on a small island in the Philippines during World War II has died. Thomas Dooley, 92, died Sunday in Hopkinsville, Ky., following a long illness. Born in McKinney, Dooley served as aide-de-camp to Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, according to the Kentucky New Era newspaper. He was a member of Texas A&M University's Class of 1935. His story about Muster in 1942 on the small, rocky island of Corregidor - sent just days before the island fell to Japanese forces - spread through...

FORT WORTH - On a bone-chilling, miserably windy day in 1952, Capt. Fred C. Seals Jr. fell out of his airplane. Right out the side of the C-46 Commando. Four hundred feet above the snow-covered ground in the middle of the Korean War. Improbably, Seals lived to tell the tale. The story has been retold on Ripley's Believe It or Not, and to this day, old men stop him and ask if it is true. Seals lived because he fell right back into the plane. "There's many a time I've thought, 'Why in the Sam Hill am I here?' "...

The most recent controversy over homosexuality involves some students who do not approve of others peacefully gathering as part of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Aggies (GLBTA) association. To show their disgust, some students have torn down fliers promoting GLBTA and others have covered them up with other fliers. Connie Donnellan, a freshman political science major, said that in one instance, within 30 seconds of posting a GLBTA flier, a girl read it, proclaimed her disgust and offense at a gay-friendly group and ripped it off. Another time, she witnessed a group of male students around a kiosk looking...

Aggie astronaut ready for launch By BRETT NAUMAN Eagle Staff Writer Michael Fossum had all but abandoned his childhood dream of becoming an astronaut when he entered Texas A&M University in the late 1970s. But an unlikely decision during his first days as an Aggie sent his life on a path that eventually led him to NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Now, the astronaut is poised to make his first journey into space. Fossum, a member of A&M’s Class of 1980, is expected to board a space shuttle in July that will fly NASA’s second shuttle mission since the Columbia tragedy...

We are currently running a campaign to put an ad in as many college newspapers as is possible, which points out that the war on terror is seamless: the Islamic radicals who want to destroy the state of Israel are the same radicals who want to destroy us. This is a vital point to understand in the war on terror because the principal way our enemies seek to divide us and sap our will to resist is by arguing that our policies are a "root cause" of the attacks against us. Many who do not support the terrorists nonetheless will...

The Internal Revenue Service has begun an investigation of ASUCD after it was discovered that the association was in violation of an IRS regulation regarding nonprofit organizations at the beginning of this month. The investigation was announced in a letter sent to ASUCD from the IRS agent assigned to the case that claimed the association -which currently has tax-exempt status - had been "intervening in a political campaign." ASUCD Controller Cameron Menezes said the investigation was spurred by an informal investigation carried out by former UC Davis student Igor Birman. Menezes said Birman "disagreed with many of the political stances...

Donald Matocha balked when his sister Linda asked him to be godfather to her soon-to-be-born son. He was being ordered to Vietnam with a reconnaissance unit, Matocha warned, and his chances of returning home to Smithville were not good. Unfazed, his sister stuck with her decision. Months later, on April 5, 1968, the young Marine was killed in action. Thus, Wayne Masur never met his uncle. But even after death, the Marine fulfilled the mentoring obligations of a godfather. The stories family members told made it seem Matocha never had died. "He was very caring of others," Masur, now 36,...

  Kennedy To Receive Bush Public Service Award      COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Oct. 3, 2003 - The George Bush Presidential Library Foundation today announced that United States Senator Edward M. Kennedy would receive the 2003 George Bush Award for Excellence in Public Service at a dinner ceremony held at the Bush Library Center on the Texas A&M campus on November 7. Former President Bush will present the award to the Massachusetts Democrat, who will join former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl as Bush Award recipients. The award will be presented in a ceremony at the...

Cult! Fear and loathing in College Station By Chris Bellamy Media Credit: kevin buehler / The Daily Utah Chronicle My two colleagues and I were terrified as we stumbled upon the worshipping ground of the Texas A&M football faithful. I tried to escape. Honest, I did. But believe me when I tell you, I didn't know what the hell was going on. What was happening around me was dumbfounding, disturbing, frightening. I don't know what it was that compelled me to stay. Maybe it was fear. Maybe it was my obscene sense of curiosity. Maybe it was the smell. Whatever...

Aggie spirit lacking on today's campus December 06, 2002 My first semester as a fish has been somewhat discouraging. Everyday I walk around campus and I can't believe what I see. Aggies are supposed to be students of respect and honor, and at least once a week I see fellow Aggies walking on the grass at the Memorial Student Center. Rarely will I get a reply when I throw out a friendly "Howdy!" -- not even an acknowledgement. It seems like no one knows about the significance of the Century Tree anymore, or even knows what it is. I see...