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Congress, Administration Should Stay Out Of Texas Classrooms

Earlier today Texas Governor Rick Perry announced his decision to refuse to apply for the federal “Race to the Top” grant program. The president of Texans for Fiscal Responsibility, Michael Quinn Sullivan, praised the course of action, saying it protects Texas’...

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Americans Don’t Want More Gas Taxes

So the tax-hike proponents at the Dallas Morning News are once again pushing the false choice between higher taxes or no new roads, after word hit their newsroom that only 15 percent of American voters support higher gasoline taxes. The Rassmussen Reports poll found...

Copenhagen: Socialism Required, History Ignored

With the world's busybodies meeting in Copenhagen, it's apparent they are a band of ideologues with a solution looking for a problem to which it can be applied. Establishment "science" is a tool of their brand of religion, facts contorted and distorted to fit the...

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Now Some Feds Want To Hike Your Gas Tax, Too

It’s not enough that Republican lawmakers Vicki Truitt of Southlake and John Carona of Dallas want to hike gasoline taxes and vehicle fees. Now the Obama Administration’s token Republican, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, wants the federal gasoline tax raised,...

The S-Word

Governor Perry's speech in Midland yesterday is being widely reported with some of the stories focused on the Governor's comments pertaining to illegal immigrantion. The real import of the speech is the Governor's use of the "S" word to describe the Obama...

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Are schools the soft underbelly for anti-Americanism?

Some may wonder if oft-heard criticism of the education establishment, and its tendency to almost universally lean left-wing liberal, is new. I’ve explained to my radio audience that it is well known that our nation’s Marxist-communists purposefully targeted the...

Obamapalooza wasn’t so fun after all

Less than a year ago, President Obama's "hope and change" refrain train hit Washington to fanfare probably not experienced since VE-Day. There's no point parsing every word, analyzing every speech, and interpreting every nuance that lead to his overwhelming victory....

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Stimulus jobs: when does the counting stop?

The Obama Administration is touting the jobs "saved or created" because of the $787 billion stimulus plan passed earlier this year. One independent assessment of the total is 650,000; the White House puts the number closer to one million. Those numbers are in dispute...