Tag Archives: Gov. Rick Perry

The $10,000 college degree

Posted on July 30, 2012 | Comments Off on The $10,000 college degree

Thanks to Gov. Rick Perry’s challenge, the Texas State University System (one of three university systems in Texas ’cause it’s so big) is offering a $10,000 college degree if you can get it in three years and maintain a 3.0 average while doing so. And if you major in biology, chemistry or mathematics.

You have to go to certain campuses, such as Sul-Ross U. in Alpine in West Texas, but Alpine’s beautiful country (well, to a Texas eye, anyhow). Two other systems here also offer $10,000 degrees: UT and A&M. All the degrees are in science, which makes sense in itself. Sorry, no gender studies, etc. Boo-hoo.

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Posted in Science/Engineering, Texana

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The Texas Mezuzah law

Posted on September 20, 2011 | Comments Off on The Texas Mezuzah law

Gov. Rick Perry is getting the credit in Israel for a new Texas law prohibiting property owner association restrictions of religious displays that don’t otherwise violate the law.

But all that Perry did was perform a governor’s option by signing the bill into law in June. Houston state rep Garnet Coleman actually wrote the bill and got his colleagues to pass it—spurred by a Houston couple’s complaint that a condominium association had prevented them from attaching a Mezuzah (jocularly known as the Jewish lightning rod) to their unit’s front doorpost.

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Posted in Israel, Scribbles, Texana

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Red State in Austin

Posted on September 18, 2010 | Comments Off on Red State in Austin

Gov. Rick Perry is supposed to speak to a conference in town this morning run by the RedState blog. Blogs run conferences? I didn’t know that. My inside source tells me both the daily and Associated Press had trouble finding anyone to cover it but one supposedly is going to blog it. If they do I’ll update this with whatever they come up with. (No, I won’t make any snide remark about how they’d have no trouble if it was, say, some prominent Dem. Uh, uh. Not me.)

UPDATE: Perry, according to the daily, told RedState’s conferencing conservative bloggers: “Austin is a very safe city, but there’s some legacy-type media wandering around. And they blame you for the decline of the industry.”

And checkout the usual liberal/Left ranting comments at the bottom of the daily’s blog entry on the story.

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Willingham was no poster boy

Posted on October 14, 2009 | Comments Off on Willingham was no poster boy

So says the Corsicana judge who sentenced him to die for the arson-murder of his three children, a toddler and two infants, and he makes a convincing case. For me. It’s a rebuttal to the anti-death penalty crowd–the usual suspects, including the Grits for Breakfast blog and the New Yorker, who think they have a winning hand in the callous wife-beater Willingham.

All because one outside analyst pronounced the state’s fire forensics in the early 90s case faulty. Now other partisans who claim Willingham was "an innocent man" are piling on Gov. Rick Perry, who wasn’t in office when Willingham was convicted but did deny his reprieve, claiming he’s obstructing justice by undercutting a state investigation. One of them is Paul Begala, the famous Democrat attack-dog, who likes to toss around the porn-word "teabaggers" on CNN. What a crew.

As one of the commenters at the Volokh Conspiracy has it: "I know the dude [was] guilty [because] his story makes no sense to me, and I doubt it would to any father. If my daughter woke me up to tell me the house was on fire, well, a lot of things might happen but one thing that isn’t going to happen is that she dies and I live." Nope.

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Texas in Israel

Posted on June 28, 2007 | Comments Off on Texas in Israel

"I believe Texans share a special kinship with the Israeli people. We are both independent-minded and self-reliant, and our history is grounded in strong stands against impossible odds." –Texas Gov. Rick Perry

I’d say that’s exactly right, and I would not join in the sniping the Texas media did about his foreign travel: to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Turkey, Israel and Jordan, apparently trying to drum up new business for the state. We do, after all, have the eighth largest economy in the world. Though I do wonder about Rick’s man-in-black, desperado look in the official Israel government photo that ran in the daily.

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Concealed carry

Posted on May 1, 2007 | Comments Off on Concealed carry

From airports to zoos, there’s no place Republican Gov. Rick Perry doesn’t want Texans to be able to carry a gun:

“The last time I checked, putting a sign up that says ‘Don’t bring your weapons in here,’ someone who has ill intent on their mind — they could care less," Perry told reporters. “I think it makes sense for Texans to be able to protect themselves from deranged individuals, whether they’re in church or whether on a college campus or wherever."

The liberal Texas media (which, like everywhere else, is most of it) will howl, but it makes real good sense to me.

Via Instapundit 

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Watching the border

Posted on January 8, 2007 | Comments Off on Watching the border

The results were few but the $200,000 test convinced state officials that the dozen or so Web-connected cameras set up on the Texas-Mexico border last fall should be expanded.

The "monthlong test…of a Web site allowing ordinary citizens [to] monitor the border via live video resulted in [almost 28 million hits, 14,800 emails, and] the apprehension of 10 undocumented immigrants, one drug bust and one interrupted smuggling route."

Gov. Rick Perry wants the Legislature, which convenes Tuesday, to spend $5 million on the effort.

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