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Law Enforcement on Texas’ Open Border Problem
Two Texas sheriffs discuss the current biggest issues with the border under the Biden administration.

Venezuela Sends Criminals to Texas
“Maduro, the president over there, is sending these criminals—releasing them from prison—straight to the state of Texas.”

On the Border: The True Cost of Illegal Economic Migration
Is the risk greater than the potential reward?

Jocelyn: Trafficked and Afraid
The Biden administration’s disastrous policies are making it easy for cartels to make life miserable for children.
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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....
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...
More on health care fraud
The Congressional Budget Office has tagged the recently-announced Pelosi health care nationalization plan at a little over $1 trillion. Given the history of inaccurate scoring of the long-term government health care costs, the Pelosi Plan (if passed) could be closer...
When will Big Government advocates take a deep breath?
Today, two news reports should -- but won't -- give proponents of the health care nationalization plan serious pause about what they are intent on doing. First, an investigative report by AP shows that "an early progress report on President Barack Obama's economic...
Embarking On Waste
The news in the past 24 hours highlights the contradictions unfolding in the debate over the nationalization of health care. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) persisted in his call for the ineptly named "public option" though he suggested this afternoon a...
Stimulus $ tracking: does anyone care?
"A Houston Chronicle review of the federal government's distribution of $787 billion in economic stimulus money approved by Congress found that the highly touted Web site designed to let the public know how much of their tax money is going to their home congressional...
Cornyn and health care costs
In a recent op-ed (Statesman, October 14, 2009), Senator John Cornyn pointed to the most egregious subterfuge in the debate over the nationalization of health care. Sen. Cornyn wrote: "The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said it will cost $829 billion, but...
Happy TARP-iversary
One year ago today the U.S. Senate passed the $700 billion bank bail-out. Nearly a trillion dollars, snatched essentially from pockets of future generations, gave the federal government unprecedented access into the marketplace. The “solution” -- the Troubled Asset...