Share Anybody that follows Texas politics knows that Speaker Joe Straus is no conservative. His election as speaker was accomplished by Democrats joining with eleven of the most liberal Republicans. From there he gave committee chairmanships to Democrats (a practice never observed under Democrat speakership)…but after all…it was those guys who elected...

Share Ok, as if we needed another example of the idiocy of government overreach and the common sense-defying logic they cling to: the EPA now wants to regulate…farm dust. Here’s the funny thing about farm dust…its unavoidable. If you’re growing stuff in the ground then you’re gonna kick up some dust…that’s just how it...

Share Sure, being a good neighbor can get you a Sam’s Club connection or an invitation to use your neighbors pool, but when it comes down to it, there are some very important reasons for building relationships with the people who live close to you. Whether you typically go for the altruistic or petty reasons for cultivating neighborly relationships, you should take...

Share Insanity is often defined as, “doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results.” Never is this brand of insanity on clearer or more frequent display than involving socialism. Today we’ve got a very clear example of this insanity taking hold in regards to the socialization of American Healthcare: Just as Britain is...

Share Most of my readers won’t be surprised by this but for those of you who haven’t heard, there’s a bit of political strife going on in America today. Some pundits think it’s a temporary political backlash; some members of Congress think it’s astro-turf…others think it’s just a bunch of racists ticket off that we have a black president. For my...

Share I’m all about giving props to liberals when they get something right…even if it’s a little thing. While I don’t agree with a lot of the article, the author raises a great point about the YouCut Project: even if every budget item that was given as an option in the YouCut project was eliminated from the federal budget, the total would...

Share California is no stranger to government largess. The state government, as well as a large number of municipalities are on the verge of bankruptcy. For any of us that are students of Austrian Economics…or who have just written a personal budget…it’s no mystery how this situation came about: spending more than you have and driving away...