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Analysis: Border Has Gotten Worse

The State of Texas must be willing to confront the Biden administration (and a flawed 2012 Supreme Court ruling) if Texans are to be protected from the escalating cartel violence.

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Medicaid Fight Isn’t Over

Medicaid Fight Isn’t Over

Republicans outside Texas are giving in to Obama Administration offers to expand their Medicaid programs, despite the knowledge such action will bankrupt their states.

Debt Limit Debacle

As the dust settles around the debt deal struck earlier this week, it has become clear that Americans are not pleased with the outcome – and in many cases, far less enthralled with the leadership that has brought us here.

Fiscal Recklessness Threatens US

For nearly all of us, the size of the national debt is all but unimaginable. If you counted off 14.1 trillion seconds, it would take 447,000 years. Printing 14.1 trillion dollar bills would weigh more than 15 million tons – or, the weight of 136 aircraft carriers the size of the USS Ronald Reagan.

Fed Up this Christmas?

Most of us have become fed up by politicians, especially those of the federal variety. With our federal government bloated unrecognizably out of its constitutional bounds, no facet of life has been left untouched, untaxed or unregulated.

Cornyn wrong on Federal Balanced Budget Amendment

Cornyn wrong on Federal Balanced Budget Amendment

Senator John Cornyn wrote this week that: “A balanced budget amendment is necessary because Congress has proven it cannot agree on how to keep total federal spending in line with total federal revenue.

Feds Playing Politics With Drilling?

After being rebuked by federal courts, President Obama’s secretary of the interior, former U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO), announced that the ban on offshore drilling would be lifted. Not so, in a practical sense, says Elizabeth Ames Jones, a commissioner on the energy regulating Texas Railroad Commission.

Obama “Economic Stimulus” Isn’t Working

The Financial Times recently reported these dismal figures for private sector hiring: “Since the stimulus began, about 400,000 public sector jobs have been added (through May 2010) while 2.7 million private sector jobs were lost.” The National Federation of Independent Business has a study showing that small businesses in the United States lost jobs in twelve of the last fourteen months. What is equally disturbing in the NFIB survey is that its small business members have no plans to increase hiring in the foreseeable future. Considering that small businesses are responsible for the creation of a majority of new private sector jobs, this is particularly worrisome.

Hey, Big Spender

This week the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste issued their annual Congressional scorecard. Our own U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison improved her score over previous years to be listed as a taxpayer hero. While the state’s senior senator continues to have an appetite for earmarks, she’s not alone. Leading the pack of Texans in the U.S. House of Representatives is Chet Edwards (D-Waco), who the watchdog group considers “hostile” to taxpayers.