Terry's Blog

It has been learned that George W Bush and his lovely wife Laura went to Fort Hood, Texas Last evening for a visit. The entire thing was done in secret and without fanfare. They comforted and listened to families for up to 2 hours. No matter the crisis, class always shines through. Thank you Pres...

"H.R. 3962 provides that an individual (or a husband and wife in the case of a joint return) who does not, at any time during the taxable year, maintain acceptable health insurance coverage for himself or herself and each of his or her qualifying children is subject to an additional tax." [page 1...

  How does someone clearly on the radar end up being transferred to Texas instead of being detained. I pray for all the families that lost loved ones in Fort Hood. It should have never happened and as a nation we share your pain and outrage. Some day and I hope real soon, we will quit affording r...

Democratic Rep. Barney Frank took a dig Friday at the Republican lawmaker who organized a protest by conservatives against health care legislation. Frank, a Massachusetts liberal, told an audience: "Some of the people (at the rally) that wanted to engage me in conversation appeared to have been t...

The White House distanced itself Wednesday from Democratic losses in two states, saying the races for governor hinged on local issues and were not a referendum on President Barack Obama. Still, exit polls showed more than four in 10 voters in Virginia said their view of Obama factored into their ...

President Barack Obama's economic recovery program saved 935 jobs at the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, an impressive success story for the stimulus plan. Trouble is, only 508 people work there. The Georgia nonprofit's inflated job count is among persisting errors in the government's...

Government investigators say the U.S. government is unlikely to recover all of its investment in General Motors or Chrysler because the companies' value would need to "grow substantially above what they have been in the past." A Government Accountability Office report released Monday is the lates...

I get to have some fun next week. I am going to Barton Creek resort in Austin on Monday and have a meeting on Tuesday morning followed by golf and diner with business friends. Barton Creek is one of my favorite places to play golf and relax. All 3 courses are great and offer some wonderful challe...

Two large union locals in Kentucky and Ford's home city of Dearborn, Michigan, rejected the contract Friday, sealing its fate. Those unions together represent 13,000 Ford workers. Exact tallies weren't available, but at least 12 UAW locals representing about 27,500 workers so far have vetoed the ...

Well, it looks as if we did get the tax credit for home buyer's extended. As real estate pros we should do every thing possible to take advantage of it. With almost a TRILLION dollars spent bailing out banks and such, this is the one thing that actually got to the end user. Amazing to me, that un...