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Posted under Quotes
“We can do nothing; we can kick the can down the road a couple more years, or we can fix this thing. I’d like to fix it. My only goal in authoring Senate Bill 3 was to make sure that if the Legislature decided to allow CDAs, we would only do so in a way that returned local control of transportation projects & established important protections for Texas drivers and taxpayers.”
Sen. Robert Nichols, R-Jacksonville
July 03, 2009
by Richard E. Cohen & Peter Bell, National Journal
Congressional Insiders – as in Democratic and Republican congressmen & senators themselves – discuss the chances this year for comprehensive health care reform legislation and global warming cap-and-trade legislation. More
July 03, 2009
Houstonians are less sweaty than people living in San Antonio and Dallas, according to Old Spice’s Top 20 All-Time Sweatiest Cities in America poll. More
July 03, 2009
Mary Helen Berlanga says move is politically motivated
By Jaime Powell
CORPUS CHRISTI — A Conroe man has filed an ethics complaint against State Board of Education (SBOE) member Mary Helen Berlanga alleging campaign finance reporting violations. More
July 03, 2009
By Tamarind Phinisee
The Boeing Co. expects to hire about 100 new employees in San Antonio over the next couple of months. More
July 02, 2009
What We’ve Learned About Obama’s Health Care Plan
Washington, DC – With the White House PR machine out in full force the past two weeks selling the Obama government takeover of health care, the picture of what exactly the President is proposing has begun to come into focus. More
Recent Headlines
July 03, 2009
Lauer omits ‘D’ next to McGreevey during gay affair, labels Sanford a Republican
By Geoffrey Dickens & Kyle Drennen, Media Research Center
In a 2008 study of evening & morning network newscasts following the Spitzer scandal, NewsBusters found that within the first week of coverage Spitzer was identified as a Democrat only 20% of the time. However, within the first 24 hours of Gov. Sanford’s confession, he was identified as a Republican 100% of the time during coverage on all the networks. More
July 03, 2009
By Robert Tracinski & Tom Minchin
As the US Congress considers the Waxman-Markey “Cap-and-Trade” bill, the Australian Senate is on the verge of rejecting its own version of “cap-and-trade”. More
July 03, 2009
By TAWNELL D. HOBBS / The Dallas Morning News
The Dallas school district must pay $750,000 and drop more than $150 million in requests for federal technology funds to settle claims that district officials abused a program aimed at providing technology for needy schools and libraries. More
July 03, 2009
By David Harsanyi
Facts. Costs. Consequences. Who cares? We’re in the middle of pretending to save the planet, baby.
As I’m sure you’ve heard, a lot of smart and compassionate folks tell you lately, doing something — anything! — is better than doing nothing. So the House did something. More
July 02, 2009
The Washington Post asked former politicians and political experts what it takes for officials embroiled in scandals – ala Sen. John Ensign & Gov. Mark Sanford – to recover their political viability. Below are contributions from Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Christine Todd Whitman, Ed Rogers, Linda Chavez, Douglas E. Schoen, Susan Wise Bauer, Lisa Schiffren and Lanny J. Davis.
Recent Headlines
11:29 am CST - July 03, 2009
Posted under Opinion
The American Creed
By Chuck Colson
The great British intellectual G. K. Chesterton wrote that “America is the only nation in the world that is founded on [a] creed.” Think about that for a moment.
Other nations were founded on the basis of race, or by the power of kings or emperors who accumulated lands and the peasants who inhabited those lands. But America was—and is to this day—different. Continue Reading.
7:20 am CST - July 03, 2009
Posted under Opinion
By trying to do too much, he risks not doing enough.
By Peggy Noonan
Something seems off with our young president. He appears jarred. Difficult history has come over the transom. He seemed defensive and peevish with the press in his Tuesday news conference, and with Charlie Gibson on health care, when he got nailed by a neurologist who suggested the elites who support a national program seem not to mind rationing for other people but very much mind if for themselves. All this followed the president’s first bad numbers. Continue Reading.
9:34 am CST - July 02, 2009
Posted under Opinion
By Karl Rove
Why would a 61-year-old civilian surgeon volunteer for Iraq?
At a dinner last week in California, I was reminded of the debt we owe to those who have, for 233 years, sustained our freedom and independence. One remarkable family in particular exemplifies the best in the American spirit of courage and sacrifice.
Sitting at my table was a friend, Christine Krissoff, wife of Dr. Bill Krissoff and mother of Nathan and Austin Krissoff. One of her sons, Marine First Lt. Nathan Krissoff, was killed in Al Anbar Province in December 2006. A Williams College grad, athlete and musician, he’d left for Iraq on the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He was 25. Continue Reading.
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