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Illegal Immigration Costs American Taxpayers Nearly Half a Trillion
A new report reveals that taxpayers are losing around $451 billion per year to the border crisis.
Pat Fallon Reverses Course, Will Run for Re-Election in Congress
Fallon had already earned the endorsement of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick for his planned return to the Texas Senate.
Tony Gonzales On His Push to Impeach Alejandro Mayorkas
The Republican lawmaker faces multiple primary challenges after being censured earlier this year.
Four Pathways Allow Illegal Aliens to Enter the United States
The Center for Immigration Studies explains how the Biden administration is encouraging the invasion of America.
Federal Archive
Leave Us Alone
The American Right and Left are each comprised of disparate groups, with a variety of priorities and objectives. What draws them together, into the Left and the Right? My friend Grover Norquist has developed a fairly convincing theory that’s at once obvious and...
Big John
Hanging in Sen. John Cornyn’s office is a guitar signed by rockers ZZ Top. Pretty cool. More cool is the way Cornyn has been rocking the U.S. Senate. He forced the hand of the liberals on their global warming scam, and has become a consistent champion of free markets...
New Pig Book Shows Congress is High on the Hog
Citizens Against Government Waste has just released their annual PIG Book cataloging Congress' waste of tax dollars. It shows there were 11,610 pork projects approved this past year at a cost of $17.2 billion. Among them: $3 million for First Tee, a character-building...
March Lobbying Madness with Public Funds
The Center for Responsive Politics has a new bracket comparing the Sweet 16 universities by their federal lobbying expenditures. By this measure, UCLA ($560k) will play UNC ($31Ok) in the Finals - UT-Austin at $200k would be on the sidelines. The bracket is at:...
Moore Conservative
One of the strongest voices for fiscal conservativism, and commonsense governance, is Steve Moore. He founded the Club for Growth, and now serves as senior economics writer at the Wall Street Journal, and a writer on the vaunted editorial page. He's truly a one-man...
Giving Us More Gas (Taxes)
Ever heard of the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Commission? Well, they want your money. This quasi-governmental body is suggesting that gasoline taxes be TRIPLED over the next five years. Big Government, not Big Oil, is already the biggest...
You Say You Want A Revolution
On the night of December 16, 1773, the Sons of Liberty boarded a ship in Boston Harbor and destroyed the tea – dumping it in the water – as a way to protest the British government’s tax policies. Supportive crowds stood on water’s edge. British sailors watched...
Tax Equity
More than two dozen members of the Texas Legislature are calling on Congress to maintain the sales tax deduction for Texans on our federal income taxes. Unless Congress acts, we'll again lose this important protection. For many years, only people living in states...
No Headline: Conservatives Press For Sanity
Seventeen members of the Texas House have sent a letter to Texas' delegation to the U.S. Congress, urging them to sustain the President's veto of the massive expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program. Don't expect the letter to make the newspapers -- they...