Many of you have thankfully placed many calls to your Senators and Congressmen in support of health care reform but against the government run health care proposals in Washington. Those calls, petitions and other contacts have made an impact! The efforts to date have been successful in Washington being aware that they do not have a free hand to destroy the best health care system in the world. It's not perfect by any means but it is the number one most responsive system around despite the incomplete stories big government supporters and the UN try to foist upon us!

Texas Workforce Commission Chairman Tom Pauken had both encouraging - and dire - words for Texas' jobs outlook at a Texas Public Policy Foundation policy primer on Oct. 29.

Pauken discussed recent headlines on the number of people coming to Texas to look for work, thanks to Texas' low taxes and business-friendly environment.

But in spite of the good news, things have to change on the national level to keep Texas prosperous.

"We could still go down with the ship, even if we are the last to go down," Pauken said.

Houston Independent School District doled out 1,200 credit cards; some staffers issued cards have bad credit and bankruptcies

Some HISD staffers who have been handed credit cards owe money to schools.

This story comes to us from the investigative reporters at Texas Watchdog:

http://www.texaswatchdog.org/2009/10/houston-independent-school-district...

As Sen. Harry Reid pushes single-payer (government-run) health care, it’s hard to know where he is today. He has found a way, however, to provide his home state with a tax break.

So while all of us in the country will be paying higher taxes under ObamaCare, Harry Reid has exempted what state? That’s right, his home state of Nevada.