Jim Terry column
Jim Terry has worked in Republican grassroots politics for 40 years. Terry was an administrative assistant to a Republican elected official in Dallas for twenty years. In 1996, he ran for and was elected to Justice Court 2 in Dallas County where he served eight years. Contact Jim at tr4guy@flash.net
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April 26, 2013
Suppose Senator Marco Rubio came home after a busy month in Washington to find some strangers in his home. Suppose the strangers were poor, homeless family . . .
Jim Terry
April 17, 2013
The Washington Examiner recently reported that Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) is now bellyaching about his and the Democrats' Commucare, supposed health care . . .
Jim Terry
March 1, 2013
Several years ago a North Texas sheriff appeared before the commissioners court of his county to ask for increased funds in his budget to hire more patrol . . .
Jim Terry
December 18, 2012
The end of the year has finally come, and not too soon. For years I have sent out a family newsletter to our friends at Christmas. This year, I have no good . . .
Jim Terry
October 20, 2012
The second presidential debate is behind us, and, as we knew would happen, the mainstream media has proclaimed the incumbent president the winner.
When you . . .
Jim Terry
September 2, 2012
Clint Eastwood was a surprise speaker at the Republican National convention Thursday night. What's more, Clint's talk was a surprise as he interviewed President . . .
Jim Terry
August 18, 2012
I have been at the Texas Gulf Coast for a few days with the family, relaxing on the beach and stuffing myself with shrimp. While I have been a mountain lover . . .
Jim Terry
June 29, 2012
I don't know whether to be angry with Justice Roberts, as are many conservatives, after his vote with the liberal justices on the Supreme Court declaring . . .
Jim Terry
December 29, 2011
You will often hear politicians running for U.S. Congress or president say, "The system is broken and we need to fix it." We heard that from candidate Obama and . . .
Jim Terry
October 25, 2011
In the political rhetoric now being spit out by the candidates for president, one topic is receiving little discussion.
One of the most egregious laws, and . . .
Jim Terry
September 28, 2011
I am not a Rick Perry apologist. I don't believe he will be in the running by year's end. But he doesn't seem to be able to handle the question raised about . . .
Jim Terry
September 14, 2011
The president, in his jobs speech the other night, cited Warren Buffett's article last month in the New York Times urging the government to extract more taxes . . .
Jim Terry
September 8, 2011
A study conducted by researchers at Columbia University in New York and Oxford University in England was released a few days ago. The report said that by 2030 . . .
Jim Terry
June 17, 2011
I attended the fifty year reunion of my graduation from Dallas South Oak Cliff High School over the weekend. It was a two day event with a reception Friday . . .
Jim Terry
February 23, 2011
What goes around comes around. Somewhere along the way in America's experiment with democracy, has the U.S. Congress begun to act like the British Parliament of . . .
Jim Terry
November 21, 2010
A couple of years ago my son-in-law recommended a procedure for airline security. As a passenger enters the secure area before boarding a flight, he or she must . . .
Jim Terry
October 9, 2010
Lindsey Graham, the faux Republican senator from South Carolina, justified his vote to confirm political activist and non judicial experienced Elana Kagan to . . .
Jim Terry
September 16, 2010
I thought it ironic that I received a telephone solicitation from the National Republican Senatorial Committee ( NRSC) the very night Tea Party supported . . .
Jim Terry
July 27, 2010
(Last in a series about a two-week road trip across America)
Before wrapping up our visit to Watkins Glen we drove twenty miles south to Corning, New York to . . .
Jim Terry
June 26, 2010
Schuyler County, New York is a beautiful area of the state. Watkins Glen, our ultimate destination and the county seat, sits at the south end of Seneca Lake, . . .
Jim Terry
June 15, 2010
We crossed into Indiana and passed through Gary. The town was founded in the early twentieth century by United States Steel and has produced a number of notable . . .
Jim Terry
June 4, 2010
As I left home on this two week road trip, I grabbed a cap from my collection. It was my University of Texas 2005 National Championship cap. I wear it . . .
Jim Terry
May 27, 2010
The muddy Mississippi waters swirled beneath us. Grass, twigs and other debris zoomed past on a swift current southbound. Tree limbs whirled in eddies while . . .
Jim Terry
May 21, 2010
Traveling with a three-year-old kid is much different today than it was when my children were that age. Today, children are confined in car seats; they don't . . .
Jim Terry
May 11, 2010
A few days ago I returned from an almost two week road trip across the United States. It was not a Travels With Charley voyage, but I observed several things . . .
Jim Terry
October 13, 2009
I have listened to conservative radio broadcasters mock President Obama's Nobel prize for several days and read editorials in some papers decrying the award. I . . .
Jim Terry
July 21, 2009
"In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker." — Plutarch
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee missed an . . .
Jim Terry
November 4, 2008
More than a year ago, Senator Joe Biden described his future running mate, Senator Barack Obama, "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is . . .
Jim Terry
November 1, 2008
After forty years of active grass roots politics, I am still puzzled why people vote the way they vote. I have considered the current presidential election over . . .
Jim Terry
September 11, 2008
Earlier in the summer, the democrat candidate for president made the following statement:
"You need to make sure your child can speak Spanish. You should be . . .
Jim Terry
May 26, 2008
A headline in the May 9, 2008 Russian online newspaper, Pravda, declared, "Russia celebrates 63rd anniversary of USSR's victory in World War II." The article . . .
Jim Terry
March 10, 2008
James M. Collins represented Texas' Third congressional district from 1969-1983. He was a folksy, traditional Republican who preferred to be called Jim. Collins . . .
Jim Terry
September 7, 2007
A couple of Lyndon Johnson's biographers related some of his bathroom habits in their books several years ago.
Robert Dalleck, in his book, Lone Star Rising: . . .
Jim Terry
June 5, 2007
One of Lyndon Johnson's biographers writes about Lyndon as a student at Southwest Texas State Teachers College. According to his classmates, Lyndon would . . .
Jim Terry
May 28, 2007
Last week I listened to Senator John McCain and President George Bush defend the current comprehensive immigration reform legislation now in the U.S. Senate. . . .
Jim Terry
March 14, 2007
While the Texas Legislature considers a bill to make English the official language of the state, a newly elected activist judge in Dallas County has denied an . . .
Jim Terry
October 28, 2006
Last year October 31st fell on Monday. A neighbor noticed my American flag flying and asked me if Halloween had been declared a national holiday. I know how . . .
Jim Terry
September 1, 2006
Although the bill has not yet been filed, on July 25, Texas republican Senator Kay Hutchison and Indiana Republican Congressman Mike Pence announced they would . . .
Jim Terry
July 26, 2006
Questions with complex answers are common. We deal with them every day. And each generation seems to confront what it considers to be new questions in spite of . . .
Jim Terry
June 20, 2006
My long held opinion that certain things exist which one must attempt to see during a lifetime was cemented by two events in my youth. In 1955, I had an . . .
Jim Terry
May 26, 2006
The late Texas Rangers owner Eddie Chiles became famous a few years ago when he said, "I'm mad!" Well, I'm mad, too. I am a Republican. My first vote was in 196 . . .
Jim Terry
May 23, 2006
A long time friend and brilliant writer once used the phrase "a hodgepodge of frippery" to describe a movie he was reviewing for a newspaper. This was in the . . .
Jim Terry
April 28, 2006
Everyone is concerned about the current price of oil and its by-product, gasoline. Everyone is concerned about the future price of oil and its by-product, . . .
Jim Terry
February 22, 2006
Immigration, more specifically illegal migration, has entered a new level of discussion in the past year. I don't recall any pre election polls in the 2000 . . .
