Share/Bookmark It might be that the split between the Texas Panhandle’s two members of Congress illustrates well the chasm that divides politicians these days. Republican Mac Thornberry of Clarendon voted “yes” recently to the deal that ends the nation’s current debt crisis, while fellow Republican Randy Neugebauer of Lubbock voted “no.”What’s striking is that these
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Share/BookmarkWell as President and CEO of the United States Obama should of seen this one coming and I am sure he did. Obama’s treasury secretary Timothy Geithner giving him advice on the current financial status of the United States and told Obama this past April that the United States Credit rating would remain AAA+ and
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Share/BookmarkWell as President and CEO of the United States Obama should of seen this one coming and I am sure he did. Obama’s treasury secretary Timothy Geithner giving him advice on the current financial status of the United States and told Obama this past April that the United States Credit rating would remain AAA+ and
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Share/BookmarkThat queasy feeling Americans had in September 2008, when the bottom fell out of the financial markets, has returned. Is the American economy slipping back into recession?    Last week, the Dow Jones industrial average lost 699 points, or 5.75 percent. After the stock market closed Friday, Standard Poor’s, one of the Big Three credit-rating
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Share/BookmarkAs we sit somewhat safely in the quiet Permian-Basin region of Texas, there is an unbelievable wave of violence happening just a mere four hours away by car. Right across the fence from El Paso lies a poor city in Mexico where MORE murders were commited in 2010 than the 9/11 attacks. Since 2008, there
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Share/BookmarkYOU’VE GOT TO LOVE THIS RANCHER’S OUTLOOK & COMMON SENSE APPROACH TO LIFE. While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old rancher, who’s hand was caught in a cattle gate, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man…Eventually the topic got around to Obama and his role as our
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Share/BookmarkThe Obama administration has drafted a new, little-noticed executive order that would plainly stifle free speech. The “Disclosure of Political Spending by Government Contractors” order is still a draft, but if the administration has its way, the order will be in full force soon. Premised on the idea that sunlight disinfects, President Obama’s executive order
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Share/Bookmark“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to a teenage boy.”P.J. O’Rourke Congress and Obama had America on the edge of our seats this week (seats made — and soon to be repossessed — by the Chinese) when they bumbled the debt ceiling issues. Our finances are more messed
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Share/BookmarkWASHINGTON — God told Willie Felix Carter to run for president. Anger inspired Roger Lee Wrights to declare his candidacy. And distaste for the current Republican Party made Jared Blankenship throw his hat into the ring. Carter, Wrights and Blankenship are three of 13 Texans who filed statements of candidacy with the Federal Election Committee
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Share/Bookmark Now that we are more than a decade into the third millennium, I wish the political classes would stop their incessant references to “21st-century” plans and “21st-century” regulations. They talk as if living in the year 2011 gives government some special new access to the truth. Washington is full of this nonsense, and perhaps
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