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Walter Brennan plays the part of a freestater! This is the BEST movie to show what is going on today in 2010. Cary Cooper: So there's gonna be a new order of things, huh? Everybody's gonna cut himself a nice, fat slice of the John Does, eh? (turns toward D. B.) You forgot one detail, Mr. Big Shotóyou forgot me, the prize stooge of the world. Why, if you or anybody else thinks he's gonna use the John Doe clubs for his own rotten purpose, he's gonna have to do it over my dead body! D. B. Now, hold on...

Despite the countless press releases, Twitter posts and television spots that have flooded the landscape for more than a year, five critical sound bites have defined this election and put Perry in strong position to retain his party's nomination: • "I will be looking at what is best for Texas," Hutchison told Texas Monthly in October 2007 when asked whether she would resign her Senate post to run for governor. Her indecision about resignation, still not resolved to many Republicans' satisfaction, hindered Hutchison's message and left many wishing she had stayed put.• "I could not give a blank check...

Texas GOP Primary: Perry 48%, Hutchison 27%, Medina 16% Just days before Texas Republicans pick their nominee for governor, incumbent Rick Perry has his biggest lead yet. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely Republican Primary voters finds Perry leading Senate Kay Bailey Hutchison 48% to 27%, with Tea Party activist Debra Medina earning 16% of the vote. Nine percent (9%) of Texas GOP voters remain undecided.

In Texas, Republican gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina told a San Antonio radio station last week she did not sympathize with Stack, but that his act reflected “the hopelessness many in our society feel.” “There is a sense in all of our country that we are not on the right path,” she said. Asked whether she considered her father a hero, Stack’s adult daughter, Samantha Dawn Bell, said during a telephone interview broadcast Monday on ABC’s “Good Morning America”: “Yes. Because now maybe people will listen.” But she stressed that his actions were “inappropriate.”

AUSTIN – Insurgent candidate Debra Medina has lost some ground in the Republican governor's race after a controversial radio interview about the 9/11 terrorist attacks, according to a new poll that also shows that Gov. Rick Perry would easily prevail in a potential runoff against his leading challenger, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. Perry led Hutchison 40 percent to 31 percent, while Medina had 20 percent, according to the survey of likely voters in next Tuesday's Republican primary. The survey also showed former Houston Mayor Bill White with 59 percent over his six rivals in the Democratic governor's race, well...

It has been 11 days since the infamous Beck/Medina interview and no new polls have been published. My guess Perry now has over 50% and will avoid a runoff. Thus the media silence since he has Sarah Palin's support.

So I get a call this morning from a polling company. (I like getting these political survey calls; I like making the callers laugh.) The questions all concerned the possible special election for Kay-Baby's Senate seat, which she swears she will vacate (I have my doubts). Although the poller asked about many candidates, the questions all seemed to center around Democrat John Sharp. The list of possible candidates running against Sharp included: David DewhurstDan PatrickFlorence ShapiroRoger WilliamsMichael WilliamsElizabeth Somebody Somebody; andDebra Medina There were three or four others, whose names I didn't recognize. The poller asked who I would vote...

This editorial board’s No. 1 priority is improving the state of higher education in Texas. The governor is a powerful force in determining the direction of higher education in Texas: The governor alone appoints each member of the UT System Board of Regents and of all university boards in Texas, and the regents decide nearly everything else. For that reason, we suggest that students vote in the Republican primary, a race that will have more bearing on higher-education policy than any other. For those committed to other races — or perhaps unable to bring themselves to cast a ballot in...

WHARTON -- It began as a battle of the titans, with Rick Perry -- the longest serving governor in Texas history -- being challenged in the GOP primary by the state's senior U.S. senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison. But as the multimillion-dollar contest comes to a close, Perry's bid for another four-year term appears to hinge not only on Hutchison's strength but on the fate of the third candidate in the race -- Debra Medina, a once-obscure insurgent whose showing in the March 2 primary will decide whether Perry wins outright or faces an April runoff. With Perry holding a seemingly...

FORT WORTH -- Marvin Bahnman doesn't like where the country is headed. He believes in small government, fiscal responsibility and conservatism. So he carried a sign that said "You can't fix stupid, but you can vote them out" outside the Cowtown Coliseum in the Stockyards, where a get-out-the-vote rally Saturday drew supporters of the Tea Party and 912 Fort Worth grassroots movements. "I'm not a Republican," said Bahnman, 74, of Fort Worth. "I am a conservative." Inside the coliseum, decorated with candidate signs, flags and balloons, dozens of candidates on the March 2 Republican primary ballot spoke to hundreds gathered...

Glenn Beck has shown himself to be a hypocrite. In a recent radio interview, Beck prejudged Debra Medina to be a 911 Truther. He has maintained for years, that anyone who questions the official government story is an idiot. Medina admitted there are a lot of good questions that have not been answered, so Beck, has now been telling his audience ever since that she is a radical idiot 911 truther-but the other day-he admitted that he himself has questions about 911-So that would make him one of the dangerous kooks that he tell his audience to avoid and shun-

In an obvious ambush of Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina, Fox News commentator Glen Beck told Medina in a radio interview that he had received emails from listeners saying that she was a 9/11 truther, that is, a person who believes that the U.S. government was behind the 9/11 attacks. Medina failed to specifically deny the charge, indicated that she didn’t have an opinion on the matter, stated that some good questions had been raised about the issue, and said that the American people had not seen all the evidence. Medina later issued a statement stating that she has...

...The Illinois Republicans need a good draught of TEApublicanism. What would have happened in this primary race if conservatives within the GOP had been able to organize and work with Tea Partiers and other independent grassroots conservative organizations to push for Hughes? We might be talking about nominee Hughes now. Even if Kirk had ended up winning, the race would definitely have been more competitive. Certainly, however, the Illinois GOP establishment would have had a run for its money. But even more than just organizing to win a single primary election, Illinois needs grassroots conservatives to get involved and start...

Perry seems to rely on two familiar slogans: “Keep D.C. out of Texas,” which is his push-back to Kay Bailey Hutchison who, for all intents and purposes, cut her own throat with conservatives when she voted “Yes” for the federal bailout in 2008; and “Texas – We’re better off than the other states.” I’ve never heard Medina deny that Texas is better off than the other states. She does say; however, that Texas could be doing better. You could be doing better. Medina wants to get rid of the state property tax. Any objections? She wants to replace it with...

FORT WORTH -- Hoping to fire up supporters as early voting in the gubernatorial race begins today, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison kicked off a "Declare Your Independence" tour Monday, encouraging Texas voters to declare their independence from Republican Gov. Rick Perry. Hutchison will be among several candidates casting their ballots today to bring attention to early voting. March 2, the date of the primary election, is also Texas' Independence Day. "I'm asking for your vote and I'm asking for your help," Hutchison told a crowd of more than 40 gathered in a back room at Billy Miner's Saloon in...

John David Wells, KLIF host of The Wells Report in DFW, discusses the Beck/Medina interview at 6:05 PM. Wells says he has new information to put the interview into perspective and put a whole new spin on it. Listen and watch live here: http://www.justin.tv/the_wells_report#r=-rid-&s=em

Perhaps Democratic gubernatorial candidate Farouk Shami just wanted to steal the spotlight back from Debra Medina. If so, the hair care magnate who wants to be governor chose one heck of a way to get attention, outdoing Medina on the 9/11 front and throwing in some offensive comments about race for good measure. Earlier today, Shami taped an interview that will air Sunday on WFAA's Inside Texas Politics. The first-time candidate talked about why he hires mostly Hispanics and blacks to work in his factories. "I find 80 percent of my employees at the factory are Hispanics," Shami said. "I...

Let’s say I had a television show and I asked a political candidate some questions regarding, let’s say, about the other entrenched lifer candidates, local issues, state and federal issues, the Constitution, and then asked if he or she believed Babe Ruth was really black or if Barack Obama was really a United States citizen or if there was a 9/11 conspiracy. Let’s say an answer was given I didn’t like. Would that alone disqualify me from holding public office? I will admit, I did like some of the things Beck’s said over the last year on Fox News and...

One day after Republican candidate for governor Debra Medina's insurgent campaign hit a speed bump, she's striking back. After comments on Glenn Beck's radio show Thursday that seemed to support 9/11 conspiracy theories, she says she was set up by her opponents. -snip- We sat down with Medina to put the comments and her campaign in focus. It is seemingly all Debra Medina can talk about now. -snip- In her news conference Friday, it is clear Medina was trying to clean up the mess. But in our interview with her hours after the Beck radio show, she repeated there are...

I was asked a question on the Glenn Beck show today regarding my thoughts on the so-called 9/11 truth movement. I have never been involved with the 9/11 truth movement, and there is no doubt in my mind that Muslim terrorists flew planes into those buildings on 9/11. I have not seen any evidence nor have I ever believed that our government was involved or directed those individuals in any way. No one can deny that the events on 9/11 were a tragedy for all Americans and especially those families who lost loved ones. The question surprised me because it's...