Issues

TCR Comment: Bob Lemer, retired partner of Ernst & Young LLP, describes our potential coming nightmare in an article you will find in this edition.

Rick Perry’s long service as an elected official in Texas is coming to an end. What it means for Rick Perry is for another day, but for Texas in 2014, it has profound implications.

The chaos that was the Texas State Senate on June 25th when the end of the session crashed was troubling.

The immigration mess in America continues. The Obama administration is deporting carloads for minor drug possession cases (traces) involving people whose families are residents or citizens and often they are the breadwinner with no additional legal trouble.

It’s premature to give a final evaluation of the 2013 legislature as the special session will hopefully get a chance to address some critical issues for Texas.

For many reasons, recent developments tell us 2014 could be a great year for us. First, it’s the off year of a second term, which normally is not good for the party in the White House.

Note: TCR has “adapted” Lady Thatcher on the importance of military strength. This is particularly important in this era of the wholesale dismantling of our military.

President Obama’s Medical Care Plan is still on its way and we have now learned many promises made were just not true like, “if you like your current medical insurance you can keep it.”

What a sad time, Human Events, that national conservative weekly of nearly 70 years is gone. At the Texas Conservative Review we feel like we have lost a dear friend of over 45 years.

For the last few weeks the sky was falling with sequestration, at least according to the President. First, it was losing teachers and police. Then it was layoffs that will close airports and so on.