The Corona virus crisis has revealed a disturbing and troubling contradiction in our “Americanism.” Read more

A few days ago, Medium.com posted an article entitled, “Unmasking the Truth: CDC and Hospital Administrators Are Endangering Us All.” Read more

It’s Sunday afternoon in a medium-sized town in anywhere USA. Sam Salez Man kisses his wife and kids before driving to the airport. He parks, checks in and takes a commuter airline flight to the near-by hub. Four hours later, he has flown to his prospect’s city, checked in to his high-end ho… Read more

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I have made no secret about my disdain — no, hatred — of Greg Abbott. I have seen enough evidence that he isn’t a Republican; he is a far-right libertarian who would eliminate almost all government. Read more

While the Corona virus and Covid-19 consume most of the news, I hope one other issue in Victoria doesn’t get pushed aside and forgotten — and that is the Victoria ISD’s replacement of an after-school program and a contract extension for the superintendent. Read more

Does profanity get you attention or ignored? Maybe. Read more

This blog represents the views of the author alone and not the newspaper. Read more

I am making my return to the Victoria blogosphere short. Read more

Last night, The Washington Post’s Rachael Bade looked at the standoff between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the progressive Democrats over impeaching Donald Trump. Bade pointed out that the momentum for impeachment has stalled out because Pelosi quashed it and that members of her caucus are… Read more

The American legal profession has a huge problem — it fails address that the most corrupted of its flock remain licensed and can label themselves “lawyer” and/or “attorney.” Read more

If I had any doubts about posting an open letter to Greg Abbott, his tweet this morning erased those doubts. He posted something that is, essentially, saying Texas isn't part of the United States. It borders on treason. Here's what he tweeted, "Texas tells Nancy Pelosi & her Congressiona… Read more

Two posts on Facebook summarized the war on women and children by the misogynistic Republicans who seem to have overrun southern politics — again. Read more

The Republicans have pivoted to health care as a way to energize its ignorant base. The GOP cult leader, Donald Trump, named Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) to be the point person on this effort that is to occur after the 2020 election. Read more

Those of us old enough remember the Watergate Hearings in the 1970s and the famous words about Richard Nixon from Sen. Howard Baker, “What did the President know and when did he know it?” Read more

Enough! Read more

One would have to be far off the grid to be unaware of the despicable behavior of students of the all-male Covington Catholic High School at the Indigenous Peoples March in Washington on Friday. A video gone viral showed teenage boys, later identified as students of the school in Kentucky, w… Read more

Folks, if you want an example of how dangerous Rep. Michael Cloud and his staff are, look no further than his correspondence. The newly elected member of Congress, ostensibly representing all of his constituents, has for the second time, sent me a letter thanking me for taking a position tha… Read more

Sunday evening, I got an e-blast from Michael Cloud. I know many of the Advocate’s readers support him. I don’t and what I wrote him explains, in part, why: Read more

Words have meaning and leadership influences followers. Just like the head of a company who sets up the corporate culture, so too does a political leader for his or her followers and for the entire constituency. Read more

An Open Letter to Mike Huckabee Read more

The news about the upcoming election is getting worse — and I am not surprised. Read more

A woman who I deeply respect as a dear friend and journalism colleague has chastised me for labeling as enemies Trump and those supporting Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to a seat on the United States Supreme Court. Her rebuke — as mild and as kind as it was — forced me to think about why I’… Read more

My long time followers dating back to my days running my own investigative weekly newspaper in Amarillo know not only that I predicted what we’re seeing with the Trump “presidency” and the Republican-controlled Congress. In short, my views of the Republican Party evolved from seeing it as an… Read more

The Texas State Board of Education has, once again, made a mockery of itself by when it cast preliminary votes to eliminate the contributions to our nation by Helen Keller and Hillary Clinton. The claim was these changes were to "streamline" the curricula. That, of course, is bogus — an inst… Read more