Category: News

Must Read Texas – December 2, 2013

Abbott Focuses on Education; Perry in South Carolina Today;
New Web Videos from Dewhurst, Branch, Hurd, Carnes;
Mackowiak & Stanford on TX v. CA
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Good morning from Austin.

Here’s the brief:

ABBOTT FOCUSES ON EDUCATION

TT’s Jay Root and Morgan Smith report:

Attorney General Greg Abbott will spend most of the next month talking about education, signaling that he won’t cede any ground on the issue to state Sen. Wendy Davis, who is making her support of public schools a calling card in the governor’s race.

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Dallas Morning News Bias – December 5, 2013

So I forget: How DID Dear Leader Obama “fix” telling Americans they could keep their health plans?
OP-EDS YOU WON’T SEE IN THE DALLAS MORNING PRAVDA PICAYUNE
*Dems, The Real Extremists
*’Global warming’ proof is evaporating
 
QUOTES YOU WON’T SEE IN THE DALLAS MORNING PRAVDA PICAYUNE
“President Barack Obama has crossed the constitutional line between discretionary enforcement and defiance of federal law.
[He] has become the very danger the Constitution was designed to avoid.”
— George Washington law professor Jonathan Turley, Congressional testimony, Dec. 3, 2013
(He’s no conservative, friends. … There’s been not a peep about these hearings in The DMN.)
 
NOT NEWS TO THE DALLAS MORNING PRAVDA PICAYUNE
1) Harvard poll: Millenials turning against Obamacare

Dallas Morning News Bias – December 4, 2013

See if THE DALLAS MORNING DAILY KOS reports this tomorrow:
Harry Reid exempts his staffers from Obamacare
 
NOT NEWS TO THE DALLAS MORNING DAILY KOS
(To be clear, folks, if The News had its way, you would NOT know any of this.)
1) Congressman warns ‘fixed’ health website still not secure; White House won’t brief Congress
2) Hacker: no security ever built into health care website; Online security expert: risks worse than before ‘fix’
3) AP: Healthcare subsidy program vulnerable to fraud
(This is AP — The News’ main source — but it’s ignored.)
4) Expert tells Congress Obama’s actions may lead to government overthrow
(Oh, yeah, Congressional hearings are ongoing – you just don’t know it from reading The News.)
5) Issa: FBI is impeding IRS inquiry
6) Obama exploring ways to let Iran keep enriching uranium

 

Dallas Morning News Bias – December 3, 2013

NOT NEWS TO THE DALLAS MORNING MOVEON.ORG NEWS
1) Fact check: Obama’s latest claim about health law also false
(He continues to lie to our faces, publicly and without fear of reprisal – and The News sees no story.)
2) Healthcare.gov balks at 30,000 users, well short of claimed ability
3) Cancer patient, dropped by Obamacare and went public, gets IRS audit
(These stories don’t interest The News. They’re just not agenda-productive.)
4) Iran’s Rouhani: ‘Our enrichment will never stop and this is our redline’
(Aw, dang. I thought Dear Leader fixed this.)
5) Hassidic man latest victim of NY ‘knockout game’
(Yeah, maybe legal-rights-for-NY-chimp, p. 4A, IS a bigger story. My bad.)
6) Activists demand end to FDA ban on homosexual male blood donations
(Most DMN readers don’t know male homosexuals are still banned from giving blood. … This is another one of those areas where pesky FACTS get in the way of the Left’s agenda. So all-hell must be brought to bear on reason.)

Dallas Morning News Bias – December 2, 2013

From yesterday:
*Texas’ Medicaid quandary, Mitchell Schnurman’s Business commentary, p. 1D –(No, I didn’t miss this. It’s just, some days his crap is so tedious it’s not worth my time.) … Stop me if you’d heard this:
1) Schnurm bashes Perry for not “expanding Medicaid”; says the federal government was gonna pay for “nearly” all of it, so what’s the big deal?; 
2) he doesn’t mention how long the fed pays (the spigot slows in three years) — or from which body cavity the fed would retrieve this money;
3) he thinks growing the Medicaid rolls is a good thing, it shows “a pent-up demand for health care.” (Actually, chief, it shows pent-up demand for free stuff  — and that“demand” is boundless.)
Bottom line — and hip dweebs like Schurm either don’t see it or refuse to admit it: We’re ALL headed to Medicaid if Dear Leader succeeds. It’s called single-payer — and there ain’t enough coin in the cosmos to begin to fund that. Our superior health care system will simply be destroyed — and that’s fine with the Left, as it wasn’t “fair.” The same thinking goes for our Constitutional form of government and capitalism.
Abortionist who kept bags of aborted babies found dead
(C’mon, you guys report the world’s “ugliest dog” dying.)
 

Must Read Texas – December 1, 2013

AP Reports on Donations and the Charter School Bill;
Historian Fehrenbach Dies; GOP Overstating Battleground Texas Threat?;
Mexican Shoppers Flock to Texas;
What Would Keystone XL Mean to Port Arthur?
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Good evening from Austin.
We hope you had nice weekend.

Here’s the short holiday weekend brief:

AP REPORTS ON UPTICK IN DONATIONS AND CHARTER SCHOOL BILL’S PASSAGE

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Dallas Morning News Bias – December 1, 2013

TODAY’S DALLAS MORNING LOW-INFO VOTER NEWS
*Race to rescue [Obamacare] website not over, NYT, p. 1A – Funny, yesterday The News’ front-page headline told us: “Website to meet deadline.” Yes – I’m quite certain I saw that. It was really straight forward. But today, we learn from The NYT: “The website, which the administration promised would ‘function smoothly’ for most people by Nov. 30, remains a work in progress.” So it seems the deadline was NOT met. Shall we expect a correction, Editor Mong? (Loved your sub-head today too, sir: Out of officials’ tense meeting came scramble to save Obama. How ’bout that? These“officials” share The News’ motivation!) … To show how far off-base was The News yesterday, here’s yet another paper’s headline for the same news: Health site improving, but likely to miss Saturday deadline. That’s The WSJ. And recall The Times’ headline yesterday: “Health care website rushes to meet Sunday’s deadline; Weeks of effort remain.”  My point: The News really is way out there, folks. I call it Texas’ Most Liberal Newspaper for very good reasons.

Dallas Morning News Bias – November 30, 2013

NOT NEWS TO THE DALLAS MORNING OBAMA BUGLE
1) Nearly 1,000 record-low temps set across U.S.
2) Obama refers to ‘tea-baggers’ in letter to Texas grade-school teacher
(Oh, come on, this is surely bigger than the Calif. inmate who killed himself with Ajax cleaner on 4A!)
3) ‘Knockout’ game continues, unabated
 

Must Read Texas – November 29, 2013

Perry Campaign-Style Swing Through SC Next Week;
Mackowiak and Stanford on TX vs. CA in Monday’s AAS;
Conservative Group Running “Thank you, Ted Cruz” TV ads;
Annise Parker to Make National Speech Dec. 10
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Good evening from Austin.
We hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

We certainly enjoyed sometime down time with our families.

PERRY IN SC, VA NEXT WEEK

Two national reports about Gov. Rick Perry’s 4-stop trip to South Carolina next week.
> Here’s CNN’s Peter Hamby reporting.
> Here’s ABC News’ Arlette Saenz reporting. (Saenz was a 2012 Perry campaign embed for ABC News)

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Dallas Morning News Bias – November 29, 2013

OP-ED YOU WON’T SEE IN THE DALLAS MORNING DAILY KOS
An Outbreak of Lawlessness, by Charles Krauthammer
BOOK REVIEW YOU WON’T SEE IN THE DALLAS MORNING DAILY KOS
White Girl Bleed A Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It, by Colin Flaherty