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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...

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...

Left Hook to Voters?

Liberals must see the handwriting on their electoral wall maps. Beyond the present concerns voters have with the Obama administration, the projected changes that will occur as a result of the 2010 Census seem to predict the political landscape will be very favorable...

DC Dems’ political fog on Texas

Given the self-delusional world inhabited by many Liberals, it comes as no surprise that many of them are giddy with a Washington Compost report which claims the race for governor is now a toss-up. The very liberal, and advocacy prone, D.C. Newspaper published this:...

Jones Decries Fed Power Grab

If California Democrat Henry Waxman gets his way, state authority over "oil and gas exploration and production" would be usurped by the federal government. That's how Texas Railroad Commissioner Elizabeth Ames Jones is describing the effects of HR 5626, which is...

Does Congress Really Care About the States?

Tomorrow morning, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and the minority leader of the U.S. Senate, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), will address the National Conference of State Legislatures in Louisville, Kentucky. Wouldn’t it...

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Defying Kings & Governing Ourselves

It was on July 2,1776, that the Continental Congress declared "these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States." It was two days later, of course, on the Fourth of July when they adopted the formal declaration. I've often wondered what...

Tearing Down The Wall

It was 23 years ago this weekend, on June 12, 1987, that Ronald Reagan stood at the Brandenburg Gate, in West Berlin, and uttered perhaps the most important challenge of the 20th Century. "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! ... Yes, across Europe, this wall will...