November 17th, 2009
I spoke on the Senate floor yesterday about U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to bring five terror suspects, including the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks, to New York to be tried in civilian courts...
November 16th, 2009
Gross Domestic Product in the third quarter showed a 3.5% annual growth rate – the first positive growth experienced in the last five quarters. Although this may come as encouraging news, some are concerned that this...
November 13th, 2009
While ACORN is under investigation in many states, California's Attorney General, Jerry Brown (who will be running for CA governor), thinks that the fault will be found, not with ACORN, but with the people that filmed the...
November 13th, 2009
I have recently joined with more than 60 of my House colleagues in criticizing recent recommendations made by the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force. The task force, created by President Obama in June, was led by the White...
November 12th, 2009
A fundamental component of “progressivism” is a suspicion and scorn of work for profit and a credulous faith in government agency that is supposedly not for profit. Actually, government workers work for pay, but their...
November 11th, 2009
According to Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, the Fort Hood massacre is due to America's love of guns:
November 10th, 2009
Texas GOP Vote previously blogged about the significance of the last chapter in SuperFreakonomics entitled “What do Al Gore and Mount Pinatubo have in common?” We all know who Al Gore is but what exactly is the...
November 10th, 2009
House Republican Leader John Boehner explains four ideas on how to make health care reform fiscally efficient.
November 9th, 2009
My heart goes out to the victims of the tragedy that occurred at Fort Hood, as well as their families. Fort Hood is one of our nation’s finest and largest military installations, and a place that has long been a source of...
November 9th, 2009
They tell us that government bailouts were essential to save the viability of private corporations in America. What do you think about this “evidence?” Of the American auto companies, only Ford has reported a quarterly...
November 16th, 2009
With the close of the weekend's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Singapore, world leaders, including President Obama, acknowledged that "there's no hope of a major breakthrough over climate change by year's...
November 14th, 2009
In a Canada Free Press article, Dennis Avery outlines the outrageous climate predictions influenced by the left's global warming infestation.Prediction 1 by The Old Farmers’ Almanac, September 11, 2008:
November 13th, 2009
The Boston Globe, blue state of Massachusetts' leading newspaper and home state to liberals Senator John Kerry and Congressman Edward Markey, in its November 12 editorial, "Stimulus helps economy, but exaggerations don't,"...
November 12th, 2009
A couple of weeks ago, CNN played a four-hour special called "Latino in America." By 2050, the U.S. Latino population is expected to nearly triple. CNN's Soledad O'Brien explores how Latinos are reshaping our communities and...
November 11th, 2009
In a Huffington Post article, Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, gives his take on environmental policy saying
November 11th, 2009
A texas GOP Vote fan sent in this quick thought:The “big 4” cellular phone carriers “sell” 1 trillion minutes of airtime per year.So if we wanted a “quick fix” to the deficit, every cellular phone user could pay, or better...
November 10th, 2009
I received this New York Post article by Ralph Peters in my e-mail the other day:On Thursday afternoon, a radicalized Muslim US Army officer shouting, "Allahu akbar!" ("God is great!") committed the worst act of terror on...
November 9th, 2009
According to the Houston Chronicle, City Controller Annise Parker heads into the December 12 Houston Mayoral runoff election a step ahead of former city attorney Gene Locke among voters in most demographic and geographic...
November 9th, 2009
At a House Republican Leaders press conference Saturday morning, Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), the Ranking Republican on the Joint Economic Committee, explained with a colorful chart what it would look like if the IRS and...
November 8th, 2009
Although Obama and Pelosi were gleaming on the House's passage of the health care bill last night, they are now starting to learn that this bill has little chance of going anywhere in the Senate. According to Senator Lindsey...