February 11th, 2010
Texas initial jobless claims for the week ending Jan. 30 reached 19,365 from 18,318 the previous week. The four-week moving average for initial claims – a steadier measure of unemployment claim activity – has risen to 22,442...
February 10th, 2010
My friend Lauro Garza has scorned the possible inclination of Ron Paul and his followers to run from The Republican Party to a third party. In the case of Dr. Paul himself, I feel fairly safe in predicting that that will...
February 9th, 2010
Sean Hannity mentioned last night that searches on "corpse-man" had only 17 links on Google News, while searches on "Palin writing on hand" had thousands.Here is more of what he had to say about the issue:Many left-leaning...
February 9th, 2010
TexasGOPVote recently posted the Audi Super Bowl commercial. While the commercial was humorous, it's scary to think that these "green police" could be in our future.
February 9th, 2010
Sarah Palin came to Houston Sunday to help rally support for Governor Rick Perry in the upcoming primary election for GOP Texas gubernatorial candidate. Palin also pegged Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison as a Washington insider...
February 9th, 2010
According to a new Rasmussen Reports national survey, 75% of likely voters say they are angry at the government.
February 8th, 2010
A Texas Tribune focus group of undecided voters watches the January 29, 2010 GOP Gubernatorial Debate between Rick Perry, Kay Bailey Hutchison, and Debra Medina. Their reactions are in the video below. Here are my reactions...
February 7th, 2010
Watch this Audi green police commercial! Is this Super Bowl commercial foretelling our future?
February 6th, 2010
I agree with the statement by Paul Volcker, former Fed Chairman, in his testimony before Congress on Tuesday:
February 10th, 2010
According to an article in The American Interest Online, the global warming movement as we know it is dead! What were the primary causes of death? Bad science and bad politics.After years in which global warming...
February 10th, 2010
A few years back in National Review, Harvard Scholar Leon Steinmetz revisited a curious debate among leaders of the French Revolution. Many of these revolutionaries asserted that France held too many people for the...
February 9th, 2010
The thorny issue of illegal immigration and how to deal with it came up during the Democratic debate last night between frontrunner Bill White and Farouk Shami.
February 9th, 2010
The President’s proposal to end NASA’s human space flight program is misguided and extremely disappointing. A nation’s global status and dominance has always depended on its leadership in the human exploration of new...
February 9th, 2010
First of all, all of these arguments and all of the strain about immigration and libertarianism are a distraction in light of what is happening in America: sort of like fighting over the furniture when the house is on fire...
February 8th, 2010
It seems that cold weather and record snow in Washington, DC has put a freeze on the Democrats' self-imposed deadline for bringing a jobs bill to the floor today. But icy conditions and deep snow aren't stopping Senator John...
February 8th, 2010
The Super Bowl Indicator is a based on a belief that the annual stock market trends are predicted by the winner of the Super Bowl. A Super Bowl win for a team from the AFC division foretells a decline in the stock market for...
February 7th, 2010
Here is a comment sent to TexasGOPVote regarding the news that Obama is surrendering the Internet to foreign powers:
February 6th, 2010
I issued the following statement yesterday regarding the newly released January jobs report:
February 5th, 2010
At a National Prayer Breakfast yesterday, our president, who also happens to be the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Marine Corps, pronounced Navy Corpsman as Navy Corpse-man.