Afghanistan:Escalate,maintain or withdraw?
The day President Barack Obama approved sending 21,000 more troops to Afghanistan; he knew he would be the sole proprietor. We now have 68,000 troops in that rugged and mountainous wasteland, while our allies have only committed 42,000 troops. I ...

An important week for President Obama
I'm pretty sure that right-leaning parents will keep their children home today, as a precautionary move; just in case the president of the United States slips in a socialist phrase, they don't want their impressionable children to hear. As Tom ...

Ashamed
When I came home and flipped on the TV, I could not believe what I heard. The Victoria Independent School District decided not to let the students listen to the president's speech next Tuesday because of the controversial nature. The ...

A glimmer of hope
Deborah Solomon, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, writes that the government stimulus program appears to be helping us climb out of the worst recession in decades. No one is sure which programs are having the biggest impact but ...

Can't keep up without a scorecard
It was a lot easier keeping up with the right- wing fringe groups back in the nineties. We had the Republic of Texas militia, but they dispersed after the Oklahoma bombing. I just heard of a new one called “tenthers”, ...

They don't do that anymore
I still remember my mother telling my stepfather “your old men shall dream, dreams, your young men shall see visions”; every time my stepfather would talk about the good old days or what he should have done, when he was ...

Demagogic scare tatics on Health Care Reform
The republican lawmakers are no longer interested in trying to bend the curve of health care spending, which will probably exceed 20% of GDP by the year 2018; if we continued with status quo.A couple of months ago, both parties ...

What do the Astros need?
Even an old die-hard like me, cannot see a pennant or even a wild card for the Houston Astros this year. I can see keeping Michael Bourn, Roy Oswald, Lance Berkman, Hunter Pence, and Wandy Rodriguez but as far as ...

Myth believers
The results of this poll are a good reason, the White House needs to step up and fight this misinformation war. According to yesterday's NBC/Wall Street Journal poll: 1…55% of Americans believe illegal immigrants will gain coverage to health care…72% ...

Rembering Riverside Park
My wife and I decided to break up the monotony of a lazy Sunday afternoon, to just cruise Riverside Park like we used to, in the olden days. On arriving in Victoria, I remember Riverside Park being one of the ...