Texas must be doing something right.
For the first time in U.S. history, two metro areas from the same state moved into the top five in terms of population rank according to the Census Bureau. Guess which state.
For once, Jim Hoffa is right.
I interviewed Teamsters boss Jim Hoffa at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte last year. I disagreed with very nearly every word that came out of his mouth. So you know there has been a dramatic shift when I find myself suddenly agreeing with him.
Premium cable or groceries? Why not both?
The food stamp program has gone from an emergency program designed to meet exigent need into a program in which just about anyone can enroll at his or her individual option.
What the iPhone teaches about Obamacare.
Your iPhone is a real-world exhibit on the futility of big-government as embodied in Obamacare.
If he’s thinking 2016, he needs to be ready this time.
By all that’s right and holy in politics, Rick Perry has earned the right to run for president. But we all need him to think long and hard before he does.
Texas does it again.
If Texas were a separate nation, it would be the 12th largest oil producing nation in the world, only slightly behind Venezuela and Kuwait. In just two and half years, Texas oil production has doubled and Texas is now on a pace to produce more oil than it did in the peak years of the 1970s.
When is it about the baby?
State Senator Wendy Davis (D-Ft. Worth) succeeded in her effort to kill a measure that would have made it illegal in Texas to terminate a pregnancy after 20 weeks.
Regulation Nation
The permanent federal bureaucracy is cranking out rules in such volume that literally no one can keep up.
Barack, we’d like you to meet Lyndon and Dick.
No president can be president without the trust of the American people. Just ask Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.
“Just where in the world are these angels?”
With as much power over our lives as is now vested in the federal government, the virtue of its leaders and functionaries becomes a concern of much greater magnitude.
The bathroom door.
Does it matter, if you’re doing nothing wrong, that the government is collecting your emails, your Tweets, your Facebook posts and monitoring you web browsing?
Power: dispersed or concentrated? (Big difference.)
Get a letter from GEICO and you most likely throw it away. But get a letter from the IRS and the room spins.
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I have no idea when the spark of intelligence will fire, but I am not holding my breath!