Recently by Neil Aquino

Former CNN news personality Rick Sanchez has been fired for saying that Jewish people run the media and that Jews are not a minority because they are successful in our society.That's right---Jews are doing really well in America and the world. At least those Jews are doing well who have not been exterminated. And, of course, we have just your normal every day Jewish folks who go about their daily lives and are not rich.But other...

The League of Women Voters of the Houston Area and the Harris County Department of Education are hosting a debate for our Texas Governor's Race.This debate will be held at 6PM Sunday, October 3 at the Harris County Board of Education building located at 6300 Irvington Boulevard in Houston.(Above--Incumbent Governor Rick perry refuses to debate this year. I think the League should set up an empty chair for the Governor. Above you see a Saddle Chair.  Maybe the...

The so-called King Street Patriots, a local Tea Party cell in Houston, care a lot about black people when they are dead. It is just the living ones that they don't worry so much about.The King Street Patriots are taking part in an effort to clean the Olivewood Cemetery in Houston. It's a campaign stunt by the Republican running against Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee in the 18th Congressional district of Texas.Olivewood is a historic black cemetery in Ms....

In 33 of the 36 midterm elections held since the end of the Civil War, the party in the White House has lost seats in the United States House of Representatives.We need to recall this as the 2010 midterm elections approach. There are underlying patterns in all things. This historical fact and pattern of midterm losses for the party holding the Presidency  is one that has impacted both major parties over many years.Beginning with 1866,...

September 22 is the first day of fall.(Above--The 1890 painting Autumn Rain by Julian Alden Weir.)What exactly is fall?Here is a definition.From that defintion--"The autumnal equinox marks the first day of the fall season. On this day, the Sun is again directly over the earth's equator, and daylight lasts 12 hours in the Northern Hemisphere and decreasing. This day is typically recognized as September 22 in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere, the first day...

I've begun to carry the U.S. Constitution with me when I am out and about.Above you see my copy of the Constitution being held and read by my friend Hamburger Wearing An Astros' Hat.I am walking around with a copy of the Constitution in case I am accosted by an advocate f so-called "states rights" or I am confronted out of the blue by someone asserting that Health Care Reform is unconstitutional.There are so many...

Here is an unattended life guard station from the beach in Galveston, Texas. I took this picture two days ago.This is the Tea Party/Republican view of our society. They feel we should all be left alone to fight the rip currents of life.Under the Tea Party/ Republican Party, we'd have privatized social security that rises and falls at the whims of the markets. Is this what you want when it is time to retire? What...

Who can vote on General Election Day in Texas and in Harris County, Texas? When must one register to vote in order to be eligible? What day is Election Day?The last day one can register to vote this year is October 4.The first day of Early Voting across Texas is October 18.Election Day across Texas is November 2.Here is a summary of important dates in the upcoming election season.These are the qualifications for being eligible to vote for all of...

The League of Women Voters of the Houston Area will be holding a big meet the candidates day for Harris County on Saturday, September 18 at the George R. Brown Convention Center. The event starts at 3 PM.(Above--A great deal better than a Glenn Beck rally. Here is some history of the struggle for Women's suffrage.)You say that Saturday September 18 is Yom Kippur and you can't go? Okay...Hard to say anything other than that is indeed an oversight for what...

I just read about the Tobacco Hornworm Caterpillar (above) in New Scientist Magazine.When the caterpillar eats a tobacco leaf, the leaf releases molecules that attract a predator of the caterpillar.This is just like how when folks who support the Tea Party and the Republican Party bash government, immigrants, and Muslims, a signal is sent out to the rich to come and prey on all of us....