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With the Texas governor's race in full general election mode, Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis and her Republican opponent, Attorney General Greg Abbott, sparred on Tuesday over fair pay for women and ethics.

On March 9, 2014, Joseph Curl, one of the three Drudge Report editors, punched hard against what he perceives as a Democratic Party narrative that the GOP is too divided to stand.

OXON HILL, Md. -- The first "people" I recognized on arriving at last week's Conservative Political Action Committee gathering just outside Washington were two "stormtroopers" and a Wookiee from the 1977 film "Star Wars."

If I were him, I'd consider suing Harvard Law School to get his money back because I'm not sure what he learned in three years.

For the sixth straight month, Texas unemployment rates are declining. According to the latest figures from the Texas Workforce Commission, Texas' unemployment rate fell to 5.7 percent in January; it was 6 percent in December.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry brought Conservative Political Action Conference attendees to their feet at the stirring conclusion of his speech on Friday.

What we may have seen rise to relevance this past week at the Conservative Political Action Conference is political contention between red states and blue states.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is scheduled to appear on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" this week, as the late-night host takes his show to the South by Southwest Festival for the first time, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The battle to win the hearts and votes of suburban women - a key demographic in the governor's race - experienced one of the first skirmishes.

Talk about hot gas . Rick Perry may have affectionately mistaken our site name once , but Senate Democrats could be in position to trademark it for themselves after tonight.

These people rock. There are many fine institutions out there, and a lot of them offered good coverage of His "Stand With Rand" fans were the most visible and well-organized of the conference, but again, this sample is hardly representative of the GOP presidential primary electorate as a whole, and most of the other expected or possible contenders ... (more)

Deep cracks in what seemed to be monolithic momentum of the Republican election machine appeared here Saturday evening when Atlanta businessman Herman Cain swamped the established front-runners in a critical party straw poll that often predicts the Republican presidential nominee - and the next President of the United States.

Grover Norquist . "But in point of fact this is a big problem, it's an expensive problem, [and] it's a problem that creates more expensive problems."

NAVARRO: But this last announcement about this new delay is that I think there's almost a numbing to all these delays and exceptions.

Governor Rick Perry , now in charge of the Lone Star State, was quite the hit at the recent CPAC convention.

We've known for quite some time that Jimmy Kimmel would be joining SXSW in 2014, but until now his guests remained a mystery.

If I can be forgiven a little piece of hometown news the halls of power in Lubbock, Texas, are abuzz with the notion that the city has a fair shot at landing Tesla's new $5 billion "Gigafactory" building the lithium-ion batteries that power its cars and those of some other automakers as well.

Perry took jabs at targets including New York, California, and the Department of Education, noting that common-sense governance has been absent not only from blue states but from Washington, D.C. 'We don't have to accept recent history - we just need to change the presidency,' Perry continued.

Copyright 2014, Des Moines Register and Tribune Co. If either Paul Ryan or Hillary Clinton truly is on the fence about running for president of the United States, some pop-the-champagne poll numbers from a new Des Moines Register Iowa Poll might encourage them.

On Saturday, Sen. Rand Paul , R-Ky., won the CPAC straw poll for the second year in a row, garnering 31 percent of the vote.