Although this report by The Heritage Foundation dates back to 1997, the arguments in favor of a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution are the same, if not stronger, today.

Liberals are now trying to sell the fantasy, and maybe even convince themselves, that ObamaCare isn't among the reasons Senator-elect Scott Brown is headed to Washington. One of the only Massachusetts exit polls doesn't corroborate the story.

Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts will not endure unless Republicans clearly understand the meaning of "the machine" that he ran against and defeated. Yes, it is about a general revulsion at government spending, what is sometimes called "the blob." But, in the days ahead we will see the Obama White House work hard to reshape the blob into a deficit hawk. Unless the facade is ripped away, the machine will survive.

Please join us at the Tenth Amendment Town Hall, hosted by TCC, to explore solutions to restore Texas' constitutional rights, and to limit the growing power and influence of the federal government.

The saddest fact of climate change - and the chief reason we should be concerned about finding a proper response - is that the countries it will hit hardest are already among the poorest and most long-suffering.

Thirty state representatives, including several from North Texas, are calling for the U.S. Army to charge Fort Hood shooting suspect Major Nadal Malik Hasan with taking the life of an unborn child. The Texas Conservative Coalition cites the 2004 Unborn Victims of Violence Act and the Texas senate bill which allow a person to be prosecuted for the death of a pregnant woman's fetus.

In a letter to John McHugh, Secretary of the Army, thirty-three members of the Texas State Legislature urge the Secretary to add an additional charge against Major Nidal Malik Hasan to be brought under Article 119 of UCMJ if it is finally determined that one of the victims, Private Francheska Velez, was pregnant at the time of the Fort Hood shootings.

While Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger worries about rising seas, his state sinks below the waves. Don't mess with Texas, they say. But California and the nation could follow its lead.

With cap and trade blown apart in the Senate, the White House has chosen to impose taxes and regulation across the entire economy under clean-air laws that were written decades ago and were never meant to apply to carbon. With this doomsday machine activated, Mr. Obama hopes to accomplish what persuasion and debate among his own party manifestly cannot.

As the legislative details become clear, it is dawning on executives of businesses large and small that reform is boiling down to a huge tax increase to finance a gigantic new entitlement. The cost and quality of care are afterthoughts that will both suffer, as a growing roll of medical experts have been writing on these pages.