Lots of chatter in recent days about a video clip in which Rick Perry seems oblivious to the recession in Texas. At one point, in the clip circulated by Kay Bailey Hutchison folks, the governor says of the recession, "We're...
Texas lost another 62,200 jobs last month and the unemployment rate has risen to 8 percent. That's up from 7.9 percent the month before. Texas is better off than the nation as a whole (9.7 percent unemployment), but clearly the...
H.W. Brands, the UT historian who last year published a one-volume biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt, said that to understand how FDR won over the public, he listened to FDR's first fireside chat. And he did it in a way...
After the Senate this evening passed the budget, 26-5 -- all 5 no votes were from Democrats -- a reporter asked Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and Sen. Steve Ogden whether they fear a sagging economy could drag down Comptroller Susan...
I'm on my own. Ejected. Booted. Renegade. Going unilateral. Out of the bubble. I could have stayed on Air Obama for two more flights today--to Pueblo, Colorado, and thence to Springfield, Missouri. Problem is that Pueblo basically has no...
Phil Gramm, the former Texas senator and top economic adviser to Sen. John McCain, says the economic pain and uncertainty Americans feel is mostly psychosomatic. Democrats are having a field day. "You've heard of mental depression. This is a...
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