Pondering Penguin

The Board of Directors of United Republicans of Harris County is proud to announce the following endorsements of candidates in the Republican primary.  Please note the message in the Govern...

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President Trump delivered his first State of the Union address Tuesday night.  I am happy to say he did very well.  Some far-left celebrities couldn't wait for the actual event so they mad...

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The New York Times has a mostly favorable piece about the business community's reaction to the rollback of stifling regulations on the economy. I know, I'm pleasantly surprised, too, that the pa...

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Happy New Year!  I have a confession to make. I am quite pleased with the results of President Trump's first year in office. While we were all told that the world would end if Donald Trump bec...

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Texas CD-36 It is not at all unusual for me to be scrolling through social media in the middle of the night. What can I say? Here's the thing, though. Night Twitter is different than Day Twi...

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The City of Houston has cancelled the Veterans Day parade. Instead, the city will host Travis Manion Foundation's 9/11 Heroes Run. The worst part, after the whole disrespecting veterans thi...

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Sometimes I read something so stupid that I have a hard believing that someone in America really believes what he is saying. Case in point - the outrage over Texans owner Bob McNair's comment...

http://ponderingpenguin.blogspot.com/2017/10/texans-take-knee-and-i-take-pass.html

Four Green Berets, THE STORY GOES , were ambushed and killed in Niger after a meeting with local leaders. Sgt. La David Johnson, Staff Sgt. Bryan Black, Staff Sgt. Jeremiah Johnson, and Staff S...

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Thursday I watched the White House press  briefing and I saw an American hero emotionally walk the press corps through the process of transferring a fallen soldier from the battlefield to the de...

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You Are Cordially Invited To A  United Republicans' Meeting With Special Guest JAMES DICKEY, CHAIRMAN, REPUBLICAN PARTY OF TEXAS TOPIC "Update on the Republican Party of...

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Simply put, an area of west Houston was sacrificed in order to protect other subdivisions from even more dramatic flooding. These subdivisions, now flooded at devastating proportions, have no...

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The good far outweighs the bad in response to Hurricane Harvey and the recovery efforts in the aftermath. Texans helping Texans happens spontaneously. There is no such thing as sitting aroun...

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It didn't take long for the ugliness from the left to rear its head and publish political cartoons mocking Texas during Hurricane Harvey. People were still being rescued, the rain was still falli...

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A hawk visited outside yesterday. My family thinks hawks are a sign of good luck. I'll take it. Today the visitors have included a heron and an egret who must both be as confused as the rest of...

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The exodus of business CEO's and leaders from the Presidential Committee on American Manufacturing began with Kenneth C. Frazier, Chairman and CEO of Merck Pharmaceutical when Trump's statement o...

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Athletic gear company Reebok trolled President Trump this weekend over Trump's alleged remark to the French president's wife. It is reported that Trump complimented Brigette Macron by sayin...

http://ponderingpenguin.blogspot.com/2017/07/reebok-trolls-trump-and-guarantees.html

I'm old enough to remember when MSNBC was a new cable network and three women hosted a weekday show - Gina Gaston, Ashleigh Banfeld, and Mika Brzezinski. Gina Gaston is an evening news anchor ...

http://ponderingpenguin.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-tweet-that-set-left-on-fire.html

Good news, fellow Texans! President Trump has nominated our own former Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison to be the next Ambassador to NATO. This is truly an excellent choice. Not only am I pleased to ...

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The Hollywood left and liberals in the media are so buried in identity politics that they are unable to embrace the basic humanity of a victim of an assassination attempt. If you do not dip into ...

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The unimaginable happened Wednesday morning as most people were beginning their day, carrying out normal routines. In a ballpark in a residential area of Alexandria, Virginia, a deranged Democrat...

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Today marks the 100th day of the Trump administration. All of the doom and gloom prognostications have failed to surface. As a matter of fact, some really good accomplishments have occurred, desp...

http://ponderingpenguin.blogspot.com/2017/04/7-successes-of-trumps-first-100-days.html

I attended Rep. John Culberson's town hall last Saturday and wrote about for Independent Journal Review. It's up now online. Did you go? If so, I'm interested in hearing your impressions....

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Have you heard of Stand Up Republic?  That's a rhetorical question - of course you haven't heard of this PAC. Co-Founders Evan McMullin and Mindy Finn have started up this vehicle to raise mon...

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I began watching Saturday Night Live in its first season - then called NBC's Saturday Night. In 1975, as a teenager, I thought the show and its original cast was one of the best on television. J...

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Today is International Women's Day. Are you wearing red today, ladies? Yeah. Me, neither. The malcontents on the left have organized a Day Without Women and it is as ridiculous and ambiguous...

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