Senate Democrats' health care bill would create a new marriage penalty by imposing a tax on individuals who make $200,000 annually but hitting married couples making just $50,000 more.
That's one of 17 new taxes imposed by the bill, which also creates a levy on' [...]
Democrats, and indeed all people who voted for Obama should be hanging their heads in shame. But yet, some liberal Democrats still praise Obama and look upon him as some sort of savior; when in reality he is destroying this country and everything that has made it the [...]
From the Waco Trib -Understand that every Republican except Michael Burgess of Lewsville voted No. So Chet Edwards voted with the Republicans.
Dr. Thomas Valigura, a Waco anesthesiologist who is president of the McLennan County Medical Society, said he understands concerns about the national debt. But fixing physician payments is critical, [...]
One of the strongest factors promoting recovery from our 10 post-World War II recessions was an unshakable conviction that, regardless of the immediate trouble, the American economy is fundamentally strong. Based on this underlying confidence, recessions and recoveries roughly conformed to the principle [...]
As the policy debate has unfolded in Washington this year, voters have consistently believed that tax cuts would do more than increased government spending to stimulate the economy and create jobs. Now that the nation’s unemployment rate has reached 10.2%, voters continue to hold that [...]
It's being described as a debate by some folks, but can you call a program where the candidates get the questions in advance a real debate? Probably not, but that's the type of forum we're watching here at the fantastic student center at TCU.
Democratic hopefuls for governor Tom Schieffer, Hank' [...]
That's right, an elected official [...]
Ed. note: The following is from Glenn Smith's excellent blog, Dog Canyon -- which everyone should read or have in their RSS, if they haven't already.
Springtime Democrats in December
by Glenn W. Smith
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has played her Charlie Brown’s Lucy-and-the-football trick [...]
Since the stimulus bill was passed, Democrats have taken a few other steps to boost the economy, such as broadening tax credits for homebuyers and [...]
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has played her Charlie Brown’s Lucy-and-the-football trick one more time. Nope, she’s not resigning from the Senate. “AAARGH!” shout Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, Attorney General Greg Abbott, and various other would-be GOP placekickers who are now forced to cool their heels.
Health care [...]
Just in the last few days, we are being attacked again by the foolishness of the Whitehouse and Democrats. Have you ever in a million years ever thought that the man who occupies the office of President would try to jam a progressive, radical, socialistic agenda that is suffocating, crushing [...]
"John Sharp's campaign is all about'" [...]
Americans continue to support Libertarian view against mandatory Military Service and Compulsory Civilian Corps The University Democrats, established in 1953, is the [...]
"Gov. candidates disagree on death penalty," is the title of Ryan Keith's report for the State Journal-Register of Springfield.
Candidates running to become Illinois’ next governor mostly are predictably split on restarting Illinois’ stalled death penalty system. Republicans generally would end the freeze on executions if elected while Democrats would keep it in [...]
Wow, for somebody who's supposed to be such a political joke, an Arctic ditz and eminently dismissable as a serious anything except maybe a stay-at-home hockey mom, Sarah Palin is sure drawing an awful lot of attention from Democrats and eager critics.
The launch of her [...]
It is certain that Barbara Ann Radnofsky will be on the ballot for the Democrats in 2010; we don’t know who will be on the ballot for the Republicans. Radnofsky will formally announce her candidacy for Texas Attorney General and her December 3 filling [...]
Why did the unemployment rate rise so rapidly -- from 7.2 per cent in January to 10.2 percent in October? It was clearly the administration's "stimulus" bill -- which in February provided $40 billion to greatly extend jobless benefits at no cost to the states. [...]
