A Primer on the National Debt
Daniel Patrick Moynihan once famously quipped that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. Moynihan's...
Read moreDaniel Patrick Moynihan once famously quipped that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. Moynihan's...
Read moreA new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows that Americans favor Democratic control of Congress by a margin of 50%-38%. Ten...
Read moreFor the last several years, I have been occasionally comparing the growth in the City of Houston's sales taxes to...
Read moreContrary to the partisan narratives of our two dissembling political parties, federal deficits have been growing steadily since WWII through...
Read moreThe assertion that tax cuts will spur economic growth is now Republican orthodoxy, incessantly repeated by the party’s leaders and...
Read moreIn the 2015 mayoral election, all of the candidates except Steve Costello agreed that the drainage fee adopted by voters...
Read moreMy former colleagues at the Houston Chronicle editorial board opined this week that the City's property tax cap should be...
Read moreWant a killer Trivial Pursuit question? How about this? While Barack Obama was President, did the debt of the Federal...
Read moreHarvey has rekindled the debate between climate change advocates and deniers over whether tropical cyclones are becoming more...
Read moreThe State of Texas prudently maintains a “Rainy Day” fund. Currently the fund balance is just over $10 billion. The...
Read moreI have regular breakfast with a group of politicos that represent a cross-section of the political spectrum. Recently...
Read moreToday's world of 24-hour, partisan-slaved cable networks and an ideologically re-enforcing blogosphere is dominated by catch phrases that...
Read moreIn the last few days we have heard more of the same old tired, debunked rhetoric from the Turner administration...
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