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Texas Democrat calls for Rick Perry to be drug tested
A Texas Democratic state senator has suggested that if Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) wants to follow through with his plan to drug test his state’s unemployed, then the governor himself should also be tested. According to Huffington Post, State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer (D-San Antonio) said that as the…
Anti-tax activist forgot his past alliances with progressives
An anti-tax activist told an audience at a conservative forum recently that the left on the political spectrum consisted of nothing more than “competing parasites,” not “friends and allies” of the right. “If we say no to tax increases, stop throwing money, they will cheerfully gnaw at the guy sitting…
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