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We have become a bailout nation. Bailouts will not create jobs, nor will burdensome overregulation. The government will manage banks, insurance companies, and automakers the same way it has manages the mail or your local social security office... poorly.

The Texas GOP has to remember that the true engine of job-creation is entrepreneurship and a legal and regulatory structure that encourages and rewards business ventures and success.

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Paul Craig Roberts: Is the Recovery Real?

Recent upward revisions to the U.S. Gross Domestic Product in the fourth quarter of 2009 have drawn skepticism from many who still point to dragging unemployment rates, reduced consumer demand, and still-declining home values. Paul Craig Roberts, a former congressional staffer and key economic policy advisor to President Reagan, is one of those skeptics:

Happy news! The government has come up with a 5.9 percent GDP growth rate in the fourth quarter of 2009. The recession is over.

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Will Obama Learn A Lesson From Greece?

In hopes of diffusing the country's debt crisis, the Greek Parliament just approved new spending cuts and taxes, prompting 7,000 protestors to gather in Athens today.

According to London Today:

Protesters attacked the leader of Greece's biggest trade union and chased guards away from the country's tomb of the unknown soldier. Youths also fought with police inside the Council of State and tried to break into the labour ministry.

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Texas Metro Areas Make Forbes’ “Cities Where the Recession is Easing” List

Forbes Magazine recently ranked four Texas metropolitan areas in the top ten list of “Cities Where the Recession is Easing". Austin-Round Rock shared the number one spot with Washington D.C.; Dallas-Fort Worth ranked second; while, Houston and San Antonio held the fourth and fifth spots, respectively.  Read more »

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Senator Bunning and our Overcommitted, Overspending Congress

I do have thoughts about Senator Bunning and the Pay-Go situation, but honestly, more and more for me, things are boiling down to one BIG? thing. Personally of course, Jim Bunning is no issue, a retiring Senator. And, this particular has already been overridden.  Read more »

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Weekly Jobless Claims Report

Texas initial jobless claims for the week ending Feb. 20 fell to 16,712 from 17,730 the previous week. This marked the lowest number of first-time unemployment claimants since Jan. 2. Continued claims (those receiving benefits for two weeks or more) declined by 4,103 to 225,287.  Read more »

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Tea parties hold out on J.D. Hayworth

What does the Arizona Tea Party's failure to endorse JD Hayworth or any candidates for the Republican primary mean? For one, it means that JD Hayworth will not get the bump that he desired from the Tea Party, but it is also a message to the Republican Party.  Read more »

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