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It’s fair to say that Louisiana’s local and state elected officials flunked preparing for dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

While hoping a miracle happens, we are probably tired of reading and talking about property tax relief, tax reform, education reform and ending Robin Hood as our legislators are.

Legal immigration has historically been a good thing for America. Waves of immigrants through the years have made America a better place, the true melting pot for the world.

For followers of Texas politics, the GOP version the last couple weeks has been tumultuous and fascinating.

TCR over the last few weeks has had several conversations with key state representatives, state senators, and Texas conservative leaders.

Our friend, economist, former head of Club for Growth and current president of the Free Enterprise Fund, Steve Moore has some great new ideas to jump-start the Social Security reform effort.

Why did the recent State Republican Executive Committee reject (led by Chair Tina Benkiser) the Shirley Spellerberg resolution regarding the abysmal HB3 tax bill which violates the state platform in so many ways?

In our recent, almost month long tour of Southeast Asia from Hong Kong, through Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Singapore, TCR got an opportunity to see how we are viewed from another part of the world.

President Bush has had a week for the ages – first his inspiring Inaugural Address with its philosophy of freedom and democracy for the world, followed by the Iraqi election (where turnout despite death threats was over 60%) and ending with the State of the Union address which outlined his legislative goals – including important reform in Social Security.

In a word, maybe. There are many challenges ahead – nationally we need to get the war in Iraq right and that will be tough.