September 2009 Archives

Sometimes I catch myself saying that Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, or Bill O'Reilly are stupid racists pedaling ignorance. The fact is that I got half of that right. They are pedaling ignorance, but I believe those people know exactly what they are doing. We on the left (or center) complain incessantly about them while they run all the way to the bank. Their party is shrinking and they are still laughing at home with their...

President Obama released the text yesterday of what was intended to be his indoctrination of impressionable young schoolchildren. But that was before the ever-vigilant watchdogs on the right caught on to his devious plot and demanded to read his remarks in advance of their being broadcast. Having read what the President is going to say, I would admonish all the parents of Texas and elsewhere, it's not too late, please keep your children at home...

In this smoking gun curriculum document from the Texas Education Agency, proof positive is found that the Texas Education Agency (TEA) is indoctrinating our children.  Each day they are required to recite the following oaths of allegiance to the United States of America and to the State of Texas. The oaths of "Allegiance" are as follows: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic, for which...

All weekend I've been thinking about where we were a year ago. Perhaps you remember Ike. It's been on my mind because I've also been reading "Isaac's Storm" about the 1900 Galveston hurricane that killed so many thousands and practically destroyed the island.Many of you may also remember a couple of gals called Katrina and Rita. Some of you may have made a 15-hour drive to San Antonio or other places like the boys and...

No one knows what President Obama will propose in his address on health care reform to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night, but by reading a few of the tea leaves one word is starting to emerge-- "trigger." And I'm not talking about Roy Rogers' horse. From the New York Times:"With Congressional Republicans standing almost unanimously in opposition to the Democratic approach, the target now for Mr. Obama is primarily a handful of...

Though I don't necessarily agree with some of the political goals of President Andrew Shepherd in the modern classic, The American President, I have always loved that film for its expression of what American politics OUGHT to be.The character of Lewis Rothschild, played by Michael J. Fox, is worth the price of admission alone.  After weeks of character attacks by the President's opponent with no comment from the White House, Lewis makes an impassioned plea...

This topic has been taken twice over, but I thought I would look at it from a different perspective. President Obama will be addressing some school children on Tuesday, but it could have been all school children. Unfortunately, the "loyal opposition" hasn't been loyal from the beginning. In many ways, I was shocked to hear about the opposition to this, but in some ways I wasn't shocked at all. The opposition has been opposing EVERYTHING...

Estimates are that approximately 18,000 Americans die every year because they don't have health insurance, six times the number who died on September 11, 2001. Now ask yourself, if America suffered six terrorist attacks on the scope of 9/11 in one year, that's one every other month, what would be the response from the politicians in Washington, D.C.?Would they be saying we need to slow down and be sure we take the proper action? Would...

This past summer, the legislature had a choice to make in education. Those of us that coached UIL sports wanted the legislature to approve a switch allowing districts to give credit to athletes in all eight semesters of high school. Currently, students are only required to take three semesters of physical education. Instead, the state upped the requirements for science and math so that students have take both all four years of high school. As...

As a bright and shining example of the outright lies and blatant hypocrisy coming from the far-right over what they have concocted in their tiny, narrow minds as what is going to be President Obama's "indoctrination" of schoolchildren in his remarks next week, I give you the Michael Savage show from yesterday:"The first president in American history who is going to force children to listen to a speech he's going to give.""No American president in...