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August 22, 2009
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WashingtonKay.com Launches, Exposes Hutchison Flip-Flops

For 16 years, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison has said one thing in Texas and done another in Washington. Visitors to the website WashingtonKay.com will learn of Senator Hutchison's hypocrisy and the truth about her record, including insight on her broken promises and support of overwhelming debt, earmarks and bailouts.

 

Your Tax Dollars Being Used Against You (Still)

by Michael Quinn Sullivan

If Thomas Jefferson was right, that taxpayer-funded lobbying is sinful and tyrannical, then many of Texas' cities and counties might want to check the status of their fiscal souls.

 
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Presidential News
 

Obama May Drop U.S.-Run Health Plan

In the face of strong public criticism at town-hall meetings and skepticism on Capitol Hill, Obama administration officials said Sunday that the president is willing to accept a health care proposal that includes nonprofit health insurance cooperatives rather than insist on a government-run insurance program.

 

Obama Administration Moves to Strike Down Defense of Marriage Act

A pro-family leader says the Obama administration is playing dishonest "Chicago-style politics" by defending the Defense of Marriage Act while undermining the law in a court filing.

 

Obama Warns of a Health Care 'Cost of Inaction'

President Obama appears to have fixed on a new strategy to counter what he has called fear-mongering by his opponents in the national health care debate: Try to convince the public that making no change would be scarier.

 

"We Don't Care"

by Gary Bauer

Washington is buzzing today with reports that the Obama White House and congressional Democrats are prepared to "go it alone" on healthcare reform - passing a massive trillion-dollar takeover of 20% of our economy without a single Republican vote. Such a move - by disregarding the polls and public protests - would send an unmistakable message to the American people: "We don't care what you think."

 
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National News
 

Ronald Reagan Warned Americans Against 'ObamaCare'

In 1961, Ronald Reagan joined the American Medical Association in opposing the Democratic Party's attempt to force socialized medicine on the American people. President Reagan's advice is just as relevant today as it was then. 

 

Obama Cronies In Disarray

by Gary Bauer

While many politicians are enjoying the August recess with their families, Administration officials were busy contradicting one another on healthcare this past weekend. Washington liberals have been shocked at the public resistance they are facing in their hometowns. The pressure is getting to them, and that is evident by the missteps leading proponents of ObamaCare have been making.

 

Eagle Forum Urges Grassroots Not to Fall for Co-Op Compromise

Washington, D.C.-Eagle Forum, a conservative public policy organization

founded by Phyllis Schlafly, urges grassroots Americans not to fall for the

Obama Administration's recent hints that they may drop the public option

from the health care bill and replace it with a "co-op compromise" that is

more popular with some House Blue Dog Democrats and moderate Senate Democrats. 

 

Finding No Buyers for Snake Oil

by Wesley Pruden

Master politician that he is, Barack Obama is a lousy calculator. He spectacularly misjudged the American public's appetite for a government nanny. Or maybe he miscalculated the power of his slippery tongue to sell government snake oil.

 

29 Species Considered for Endangered List

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday that 29 species - plants, insects, mollusks and one fish - will be considered for protection under the Endangered Species Act.

 

Freedom-minded Americans Will Not Go Quietly

by Bill Murchison

The town hall turmoil now on display shows how, when the dogs of political war are loosed, they can ruin the carpets and chew up all the furniture in the house - even in a placid place like Texas.

 

Are You An Immoral Un-American Evil Monger?

by Gary Bauer

You know things are getting desperate for the Left when Democrats suddenly "get religion." That's what happened yesterday as President Obama turned to the leaders of the Religious Left to help him sell healthcare reform to an increasingly skeptical public.

 

Big Government, Big Recession

by Alan Reynolds

There's no evidence for the theory that state spending has shortened this or any other slowdown. 'So it seems that we aren't going to have a second Great Depression after all," wrote New York Times columnist Paul Krugman last week.

 

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Texas Continues to Lead the Way
 
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Tim Lambert
More data has been released showing that Texas and its approach of limited government and more freedom for business and individuals is the right approach in encouraging economic development and the prosperity of the people. See Tom Pauken's comments.

Texas' population continues to grow, and the state will gain another couple of congressional seats in the next census. As some have rightly commented, the influx of people from other states can have an impact on the political makeup of the legislature and could change the direction the state is moving.
 
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