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April 11th, 2012
HOUSTON — In advance of Tax Day, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, today announced the introduction of comprehensive legislation to assist small business owners and taxpayers in cutting through IRS red tape. Sen. Cornyn’s ...
January 3rd, 2012
Henry Hazlet in his classic book, Economics in One Easy Lesson, noted that the key to understanding economics is not just to look at who benefits today from an anticipated economic policy but to look at the long run...
December 22nd, 2011
I issued the following statement on the Middle Class Tax Relief & Job Creation Act:This is not complicated. The House bill keeps everyone’s payroll taxes stable for one year. The Senate bill allows everyone’s taxes to...
December 14th, 2011
As American families continue struggling to make ends meet in the Obama economy, House Republicans are committed to protecting all workers from tax increases and putting an end to reckless government spending. I am...
November 28th, 2011
Envy is a destructive force that undermines society for it doesn’t engender growth or progress but is a bureaucratization of society to enforce a false equality of results. America was designed and still is considered a...
November 9th, 2011
There was no debate between Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain. It was a discussion, at best with Mr. Gingrich taking command of the stage while waxing philosophically about the issues. His command of the topics and language...
November 3rd, 2011
This election is the idea election, and it is an election in which political parties are changing as liberalism and conservatism are being redefined for the 21st century. The Tea Party has driven the Republican agenda and...
October 29th, 2011
Rick Perry has released his tax reform and the GOP primary voters have one more idea yet to consider. Since Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan, the word is tax reform and changing the whole system. Newt Gingrich has his tax reform...
October 11th, 2011
Last week in The Woodlands, Texas Barnes and Noble bookstore, Republican Presidential Candidate Herman Cain took questions from the Houston news media and from TexasGOPVote. Mr. Cain was in Texas promoting his new book,...
September 28th, 2011
In March, Obama had an 18 point lead over Herman Cain in an Obama-Cain poll, but the difference is growing smaller. A month ago, Obama held a 7 point lead, and today's Rasmussen's poll has Obama at a 5 point lead. Herman...
March 14th, 2012
This is a piece of random thoughts where conventional wisdom is turned upside down and corrected. Here is a thought, how many times does the left tells us how much of a failure those Bush tax cuts were? Of course, the job...
December 28th, 2011
I had an interesting conversation with an acquaintance a couple of weeks ago. This individual is a conservative East Texan. Unfortunately, this individual, like many other individuals (including conservatives), has fallen...
December 21st, 2011
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is a political committee devoted to maintaining and increasing the 239-member Republican majority in the U.S. House of...
December 13th, 2011
The United Nations finally concluded its Climate Change meeting in Durban, South Africa at about 3:30 a.m. Sunday, a day and a half late. Delegates did not create a new treaty to legally bind nations to limit greenhouse gas...
November 10th, 2011
A government-guaranteed loan to a so-called green energy company Solyndra has been in the news lately. Solyndra was supposed to employ thousands of Americans in the production of solar panels and received federal loan...
November 6th, 2011
Whatever happened to the Conservative idea of "Equal Opportunity for all"? For that matter, what about free market principles and the idea that no one is "too big to fail?"Are Conservatives comfortable with the promotion of...
November 3rd, 2011
Elizabeth Perez, conservative candidate for Houston City Council At-Large #2 sent the following in about this Saturday's Cain-Gingrich Debate:Texas is getting lots of attention with the Republican Presidential candidates....
October 19th, 2011
Sentimentally, though he is not as reflexively ideologically conservative as I am, I’m inclined toward Herman Cain for the Republican nomination. Constrained by considerations of security and the deterrence of fraud,...
October 10th, 2011
Herman Cain is the unusual politician, who so far has set his own rules when it comes to running a political campaign. Who else would name his book; This is Herman Cain!: My Journey to the White House? Cain's...
September 22nd, 2011
Nearly one half of all Americans pay no income tax at all each year. Most of us have learned that fact recently through the extensive debt ceiling debate and the debate over just how much the “rich” should be paying in...
