Big Jolly Politics

politics in Harris County and Texas

Let's do lunch today!

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If you have the time and are in the area, I'll be at the Houston Property Rights Association meeting at noon in the Galleria area: Big Jolly....Republican Blogger Extraordinaire; Postmortems on the 2012 Elections This Friday the HPRA speaker will be … [Read more]

Post-election thoughts and reflections

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The long, long campaign season in Texas and the US is finally over and the people voted for the status quo. President Obama will be back. Harry Reid will be back as leader of the Senate. John Boehner will be back as leader of the House. Texas is … [Read more]

The Journey Ahead II

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The closeness of this last election, and the divisions among us that it revealed over the course of many months, proves something we all have known instinctively for a long time now:  we live in dangerous and immoderate times, and we have been caught … [Read more]

The Journey Ahead

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When I sat down to write this post, I thought it would be one of the hardest posts I’d ever written, simply because I am so disappointed—basically numbed—by the outcome of the election yesterday, both locally as so many of my friends lost their … [Read more]

Obama or Romney? Prediction time!

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Okay, we're down to the wire. Tomorrow will either be the end of a four year nightmare in the White House or a fresh start, a chance to return to some of our founding principles. So....who do you think is going to win? There is a very cool … [Read more]