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Blurred Understanding

Turn on the TV, listen to the radio, or read a news article online, and odds are you’ll encounter something about healthcare in America. The Affordable Care Act. Obamacare. Medicaid expansion… they’re all terms at the forefront of people’s minds, and rightfully so....

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Who Stands With Ted Cruz?

The last 21 hours have been truly inspiring. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has been standing against not only the specifics of ObamaCare, but—almost more importantly—the Republican and Democratic establishment. We know why the Democrats are supporting ObamaCare and opposing Sen....

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Straus Seeks Sugarcoat for Medicaid Expansion

Say NO to Expansion! A month after confessing his desire for the Legislature to have a conservation about Medicaid expansion, Speaker Straus now says it’s time to “get our heads out of the sand” in order to find a “Texas solution.” The problem? His idea of a solution...

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Medicaid Fight Isn’t Over

Austin insiders were buzzing yesterday about the level of input lawmakers were getting from citizen-leaders, conservative activists and taxpayers in advance of a House Republican Caucus meeting. As you know, the meeting was set to discuss whether or not the GOP body...

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Congressional GOP Weaselship

While I expected nothing less from lame-duck tax-and-spender Kay Bailey Hutchison, Sen. John Cornyn's decision to vote for a tax hike on 77 percent of American households is like a kick in the gut. (The Texas delegation votes are found in Update 2, below.) All those...

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Cliff? Behold Obama’s Fiscal Tsunami

With all the "fiscal cliff" talk, it seems like everyone has forgotten about the tsunami scheduled to hit our economy tomorrow: the $1 trillion Obamacare Tax. Well, not everyone. The helpful folks at Americans for Tax Reform have a list of just some of the the new...

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. So, Congress has voted themselves a new max on...

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...

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. Gov. Rick Perry's new book,...