Texas GOP Vote

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) just announced that Republican Candidate for Texas Congressional District 30 Stephen Broden is officially "on the radar" and moving toward "Young Gun" status.

“The NRCC is committed to working with Stephen Broden as he continues to meet the rigorous goals of the Young Guns program,” said NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions (R-TX). “Stephen is an accomplished, independent leader who will fight to create jobs and rein in government spending. I am confident that we will be successful in our efforts to win this seat and add it to the Republican column in November"

Progressive and Civil Rights groups, including the NAACP, La Raza, and Code Pink, marched in a "One Nation Working Together Rally" Saturday in support of more jobs, education, justice and keeping the Democratic message alive. 

Fox News reports: 

Cuba announced today that it will lay off at least 500,000 government jobs within the next six months, allowing for more private sector job creation. The government currently controls more than 90% of the economy and runs everything from ice cream parlors to scientific laboratories.   Read more »

Hillary Clinton spoke at the Brookings Institution Thursday, where she was discussed the Administration's new National Security Strategy and also gave her opinion on taxes:

"The rich are not paying their fair share in any nation that is facing the kind of employment issues [America currently does] — whether it's individual, corporate or whatever [form of] taxation forms."

I had the pleasure of speaking to the Brush Country Republican Women on Tuesday night about a variety of topics including Texas Young Republicans, Hispanic Outreach, Education, Immigration, the upcoming November elections, and the current state of politics in Washington.

I spoke of the role the Texas Young Republicans are playing in recruiting candidates, registering voters, serving as young professionals, and how they are working to advance Republican ideals across the state.

Robert Romano discusses the Keynesian Paradox in this article, quoting:

The threat of a double-dip recession is real, but it should not be cause for more government “stimulus,” deficit-spending, bailouts, and low-interest monetary easing. The primary reason for the current market downturn is unacceptably high levels of sovereign debt and spending in Europe, the U.S., Japan, and elsewhere.

Blogger Ann Althouse observed, "A love of autocracy often lurks beneath the liberal veneer. There's this idea that the right answers are known and the people are just too deluded and distorted to see what they are and to vote for them." New York Times Tom Friedman stated "... [W]hat if we could just be China for a day?... You know, I mean, where we could actually, you know, authorize the right solutions....I want my democracy to work with the same authority, focus and stick-to-itiveness. But right now we have a system that can only produce suboptimal solutions." This is not the first time that Friedman expressed