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I hope Harry Reid made a stop this morning at Caesar' s Palace or the Golden Nugget and put down a very large wager on his favorite game of chance. In spite of approval ratings hovering in the 30's, Sen. Reid has to feel like the luckiest man in the state of Nevada after the results of last night's Republican primary contest to decide his challenger in November. Who woulda thunk that of the 2...

I read the news today:Arlen Specter switched parties because he couldn't win the Republican primary, now he loses the Democratic primary to Joe Sestak. This just in Arlen, it's not about party this year, the key word is "incumbent." You're 80 years old, you've been in the Senate for 30 years. Your time is up. Mitch McConnell's hand-picked candidate to succeed Jim Bunning got smoked by Tea Party favorite Rand Paul in the Republican senatorial...

December 20, 2009   Representative John Culberson, 7th District514 Longworth Building Washington DC 20515-4307   10000 Memorial Drive, Suite 620 Houston, TX  77024-3490   Dear Representative Culberson:   Thank you for your response to my letter expressing my opinion on health care reform with another of your empty, partisan, form letters written by someone on your staff. I truly appreciate the time it took one of your minions to add me to the distribution...

Many of you may remember when Bob Geldof got a group of musicians together on behalf of Africa in 1984 and recorded a song whose proceeds went to famine relief in Ethiopia. (http://www.bobgeldof.info/Charity/bandaid.html)I don't know a group of musicians that I can get together, but I have written some new lyrics that are apropos this year.Check out this link to the original recording, but read along with my lyrics as it plays and see...

Not being a resident of the city of Houston, but having been born there and having lived there until 4 years ago, I was an interested observer of yesterday's run-off election for mayor. Reading 2 accounts of the results, one in the New York Times and one in the Houston Chronicle, the opening paragraph in the Chronicle puts the election in much better context, in my opinion. The NYT:"Houston became the largest city in the...

To those of us who have been around the blogs for about the last 18 months this data from Public Policy Polling should come as no surprise:"PPP's newest national survey finds that a 52% majority of GOP voters nationally think that ACORN stole the Presidential election for Barack Obama last year, with only 27% granting that he won it legitimately...Overall 62% of Americans think Obama legitimately won the election to only 26% who think ACORN...

Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of the day Barack Obama was elected president of the United States. Although he has only been in office for nine months, I thought it would be an appropriate time to reflect and re-assess my vote for him and see if I made the proper choice, based on what I know now. As I did I remembered his speech on the night of November 4, 2008:"The road ahead will be...

It's been awhile, but hopefully the batteries are recharged enough to continue. Last time we talked about an educational subject that is incredibly important, but I thought I would throw another monkey in the wrench (or something like that) with another issue that impacts education and beyond. I'm one of those rare individuals that doesn't believe in the zero tolerance policy. While we're at it, I don't believe in three strikes and you're out or...

  On October 15, 2006, David Iglesias, the U.S. Attorney for New Mexico, did not indict the state's attorney general, Patricia Madrid. The FBI had been investigating Madrid for her connections to a political action committee called Justice for America. They turned all the evidence they had gathered over to the office of the U.S. Attorney and were awaiting his decision to indict. E-mails relating to the firing of nine U.S. Attorneys released yesterday reveal...