Nearly two-thirds of Americans surveyed by a Quinnipiac poll say it is government's responsibility to ensure that everyone has "adequate health-care." RealClearMarkets editor, Steve Malanga questions the level of personal responsibility many give to their health. In the article, Dr. Halderman recounts a woman who had not had a mammogram in several years, even though her family had a long history of breast cancer, yet she would not spend $90 for a mammogram but $400 on Botox treatments.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi defied policy logic and public opinion late Saturday night, ramming through the House a nearly 2,000-page health-care leviathan that counts as the biggest expansion of the federal government since the New Deal. As President Obama likes to say, this was a "teachable moment" about our current government.

State Reps. Bill Callegari (R-Katy) and John Zerwas (R-Richmond) will co-host a town hall meeting with the Texas Conservative Coalition to begin the process of crafting a conservative agenda for the next session of the Texas Legislature.  The meeting will take place from 7 - 9 p.m. on November 9, 2009 at the Powerhouse Christian Center in Katy.

Congress is on the verge of enacting the largest unfunded mandate in American history. At a time when most states are struggling with rising unemployment, declining tax revenue and the worst national economic climate in 30 years, Congress is demonstrating that it is more out of touch than ever.

"Dist. 4 State Rep. Betty Brown's 2-hour Town Hall meeting was a friendly discussion on conservative principles and the Texas economy.  Over 70 people - constituents from Henderson and surrounding counties - attended the town hall meeting at the Trinity Valley Community College cafeteria on Tuesday evening. The event featured District 4 State Rep. Betty Brown, District 5 Rep. Bryan Hughes, District 2 Rep. Dan Flynn and representatives of the Austin-based think tank, Texas Conservative Coalition."

The Republican Study Committee Chairman, Congressman Tom Price unveils Nancy Pelosi's health care bill that provides for the government take over of health care.  The 2,000 page bill is expected to cost over a trillion dollars which Congressman price breaks down to about $500 million a page.

State Representative Betty Brown, member of the Texas Conservative Coalition, is planning to strike up a conversation with area citizens on the evening of November 3 and the morning of November 4. She will hold Town Hall meetings at the Trinity Valley Community College cafeteria, at 100 Cardinal Dr., beginning at 6 p.m. on November 3 and at the Covenant Generations Church, located at 10342 W. Highway 80 on Wednesday, November 4 at 7:30 a.m. The Town Hall meeting is open to all citizens in the area.

The financial crisis, detonated by greed and recklessness on Wall Street and in the City of London, is for the West a deep, self-inflicted wound. The beneficiary won't be Russia, which, with its fragile, energy-based economy, is likely to suffer more than we shall; it will be India and China. They will move into any power vacuum left by the collapse of Western self-confidence.  If we seriously wish to repair the damage, we need to accept that this is fundamentally a moral crisis, not a financial one.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reportedly told fellow Democrats that she's prepared to lose seats in 2010 if that's what it takes to pass ObamaCare, and little wonder. The health bill she unwrapped last Thursday, which President Obama hailed as a "critical milestone," may well be the worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever introduced.

So long as the Democratic Party is the party of the Old Hat People, dependent on public-sector unions with Orwellian names like the Service Employees International Union, it will remain yoked to a pre-iPhone political model that will increasingly strike average everyday American voters as weird and alien to their world.