Op-Ed Columnist Mrs. Bush, Abstinence and Texas By GAIL COLLINS Published: February 16, 2011 Op-Ed Columnist Today, let’s discuss choices, starting with Barbara Bush raising an alarm and Gov. Rick Perry’s personal experience with sexual abstinence. I did throw in the last one to keep you interested. Sue me. This month, The Houston Chronicle […]

Texas on the Brink How Texas Ranks Among the 50 States January 2011 ~ Fifth Edition Since 1836, Texas has stood as an icon of the American dream.  Blessed with land, rivers, oil, and other abundant natural resources, early Texas welcomed everyone from cattle ranchers to braceros, from cotton farmers to Chinese railroad workers. These […]

Are you an athlete? Do you do those long marathons? Are you a triathlete? Are you an ironman or an ironwoman? In these modern times there is no reason why an athlete should not be able to monitor his vital signals. A Nonin Onyx 9550 Pulse Oximeter (nonin 9550) is an excellent choice to monitor […]

By RICK CASEY Copyright 2011, HOUSTON CHRONICLE Feb. 15, 2011, 9:27PM In his State of the State speech last week, Rick Perry, aka Governor Sunshine, warned that the "mainstream media and big-government interest groups are doing their best to convince us that we’re facing a budget Armageddon." Two days later the state’s executive commissioner of […]

  Are conservatives endangering the high court? By Katrina vanden Heuvel Tuesday, February 15, 2011 Less than a month after President Obama signed the health-care reform into law, Justice Stephen Breyer predicted that the legislation would one day make it to the high court. Now that four federal judges have ruled on the matter, it […]

Forget all that you hear on FoxNews or even the Mainstream Media (TV, Radio, etc.). Nobody is addressing the biggest cancer in our society and that is the extreme inequality that is continuously getting worst. It is not enough to work yourself out of the lower classes upward  because the constant exponential growth that the […]

One need not but listen to Speaker  Boehner “So Be It” response when asked about job losses caused by their machete style slashing of the Federal Budget. It is evident that while their visceral support for policies, specifically tax cuts that apply mostly to the wealthy is something they would go to guillotine for, they […]

We are in a systemic unemployment situation generally no fault of the average middle class American but on corporate and political policies. The least our political leaders should be doing in the short term is providing financial support through some sort of employment until the destruction they’ve imposed on America is mitigated. That Democrats are […]

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