Texas

Perhaps, Rick Perry has learned a thing or two about being a career politician. His Washington style political approach puts some long time congress-members to shame.

Texas Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Bill White has pounced on some of the shenanigans that Perry has involved himself in. The White campaign notes, "Rick Perry recently asked reporters to use a dictionary to look up the definition of the phrase ‘act of god. Perhaps they should also look up the definition of kickback."

Oh snap! Them are some fighting words! It seems that Perry may have use the Texas Enterprise Fund to provide "kickbacks" to friends and supports ergo Peter M. Holt of Caterpillar Inc.  Read More »

I love Texas! I love it so much that I am willing to put up with King Perry but that patience is deteriorating fast.

A clear example of how Perry is hurtful to Texans but in particular Hispanics regardless of political affiliation is to observe how his policies affect Texas.

The Houston Chronicle reports:

“If the American Dream is upward economic mobility and arrival in the middle class, the grim statistics show only a small percentage of Texas' Hispanics are on the road to success.  Read More »

Arizona State Bill 1070, otherwise known as “Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act” signed by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer earlier this week may not have a long enough shelf life to determine its effect.

The verbiage that is causing the controversy and that must be reviewed would be “reasonable suspicion” and what exactly does it constitute.

The bill text states:  Read More »

It is opening season today in Baseball ... whip out the glove, stretch during the 7th and don't forget root for the good guys. Let's Play Ball!

24 hours later the United States is a step closer to fulfilling the change we voted for in 2008. In a historic fashion, the United States Congress passed Health Care Reform that is long over due.

While Republicans may complain that we are rushing into something ... please take the time to review a time table of what to expect during the next ten years.

For example, beginning with the second that President Barack Obama signs the bill ... insurance companies will not be able to cancel your policy just because you get sick ... imagine if your car insurance company would cancel your policy whenever you get into an accident or you get a moving traffic violation ... well the big old insurance companies can no longer do that to us.  Read More »

CBO Score On Health Care Bill Released: Boosts Democrats' Hopes Of Passing Reform - Comprehensive health care reform will cost the federal government $940 billion over a ten-year period, but will increase revenue and cut other costs by a greater amount, leading to a reduction of $138 billion in the federal deficit over the same period, according to an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office, a Democratic source tells HuffPost. It will cut the deficit by $1.2 trillion over the second ten year period.  Read More »

Fact check: Premiums would rise under Obama plan - Premiums are likely to keep going up even if the health care bill passes, experts say. If cost controls work as advertised, annual increases would level off with time. But don't look for a rollback. Instead, the main reason premiums would be more affordable is that new government tax credits would help cover the cost for millions of people.

The Associated Press has a nice hit piece on the proposed benefits of the Obama Health Care Reform bill. Even upon reading and comprehending the article one can easily see that semantics are the root support of this flawed piece.  Read More »