Modern Government has become a burden - an obstacle to economic freedom and human liberty. It is the goal of Texas GOP Vote to help our congressional delegation pull the reigns on Big Government by acting as a watchdog, exposing politicians and policies that aim to escape the bounds of the U.S. Constitution.
Is Edward Snowden, the 29 year old contractor who leaked National Security Agency documents to the media, a hero or a traitor? Dick Cheney commented on Sunday, June 16, 2013 to Chris Wallace that he most certainly is a traitor. Revealing information from emails and phone calls used in gathering anti-terror programs weakens the national security of the United States. Read more »
In light of the continuously-developing NSA spying story, it’s important to look at how substantial the government’s legal justification is for its overreaching, 4th Amendment infringing, domestic surveillance policy, and how said policy can impact the lives of ordinary citizens who supposedly have “nothing to hide”. Read more »
Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Senator Tommy Williams has been plugging the “good conservative budget … we can all be proud of” that the Texas legislature passed and Governor Perry left largely intact. Senator Williams claims with this budget, “we are living within our means while funding our priorities.”
I went to the House floor this week to give my colleagues in Congress a wake up call. Americans are fed up with our government and its latest scandals – and they should be. We deserve better than a government spies on us, infringes on our Constitutional rights, and stifles economic growth and innovation. Watch video of my floor speech below.
AUSTIN - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott issued the following statement regarding the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) decision to deny disaster funding for the City of West:
President Obama has yet again promised one thing and then not delivered. Just last month I saw the devastation first-hand, met with rescue workers
In 2012, when Barack Obama was fairly unpopular, Organizing for America helped get him reelected by convincing voters who were basically ambivalent about reelecting the president to walk like mindless zombies to the polls and vote for Obama.
Now, Barry finds himself in a similar unpopular situation because 54% of Americans abhor Obamacare. So, in an effort persuade healthcare reform detractors that they adore something they despise, the president is addressing the issue by employing those reelection magicians, Organizing for America. Read more »
Market economics is about more than making money or creating wealth; it is about allowing individuals to be the best they can be. Free market economics is the only economic system that allows you to act locally and thinks globally. Freedom and individual responsibility are centric to the philosophy. All socialism, including democratic socialism, depends upon coercion and forcing individuals to do what they may not choose to do Socialism and modern day liberalism are not based on liberty or freedom but on forcing the individual to conform. Modern day America is evolving
Among all of the tools governors have, the ability to veto bad bills is one of the most powerful. Usually this is wielded in a very limited way, and typically it is either to correct errors or unintended consequences not realized at the time of legislative passage of a bill, or at times a social issue will be at stake. Read more »
Is the Southern District of New York (SDNY) becoming the laughing stock of our nation's bankruptcy courts? After Chief Judge Cecelia Morris' appearance on Fox Business a couple of weeks ago, that just might be the case. I found this story while researching the SDNY on Bankruptcy Law Review. It seems Judge Morris wants to now blame all of the failings of her district's courts on the fiscal sequestration that is really just now starting to affect government entities. Sounds like more excuses from a court district already plagued with problems. Read more »