November 20, 2009 Harlingen, Texas, November 18, 2009: If we are to believe the nightly news reports, half of our population is eagerly awaiting the Obama Administration’s healthcare reform bill to bring about lower prices, faster service and medical care to everyone. That mantra may be a soothing promise to some of those who are currently uninsured, but to the citizens of San Benito, Texas it means they still do not even have a hospital to provide current of future treatment. (More)
November 13, 2009 Harlingen, Texas, November 12, 2009: It started out as a mild virus initiated by the left of center intellectuals of academia. But, like every virus from computer carried to influenza, it spread rapidly through schools, hospitals, civil service, the media, companies, governance and the armed forces. Political correctness has poisoned all of America. (More)
November 9, 2009 Harlingen, Texas, November 8, 2009: We have all read the various tributes to veterans, such as the one that starts out “It is the Veteran, not the preacher, who has given us freedom of religion. That short paragraph goes on to say our freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom to assemble, freedom to have a fair trial and our freedom to vote as we choose were all preserved for us through the suffering and dedication of our military veterans. (More)
October 30, 2009 Harlingen, Texas, October 29, 2009: Ask veterans a question about the performance of the Department of Veterans Affairs and prepare yourself to be overwhelmed with replies both good and bad, but most being just plain ugly. That was the result experienced when we asked the military community about experiences with that governmental agency. The woeful responses of many veterans were difficult to read. (More)
October 21, 2009 Harlingen, Texas, October 19, 2009: People around the world have utilized The phrase “Robbing Peter to Pay Paul” for hundreds of years. In 1380 it was included in John Wycliff’s “Selected English Works”. It appears in the 1546 John Heywood’s collection of “Word and Phrase Origins” and was first noted in the United States when it appeared in the “Thomas Hutchinson Papers” of 1657. The words mean to take money from one person and use it for another, a practice that appears to have been going on for a very long time. (More)
October 16, 2009 Harlingen, Texas, October 15, 2009: For more than two decades the most admired, most respected and most trusted organization in America has been our military establishment. During the same period, the least admired, least respected and least trusted organization in the country has been the United States Congress. Only 15 points above Congress is the office of the President, which for the same period of time has only had a trust factor of 25%. (More)
October 14, 2009 Harlingen, Texas, October 13, 2009: “I am not a deep thinker like all of our political whiz-kids in Washington”, says Myrna Rogers of Los Angeles, California, “but, I can’t figure out how raising everyone’s taxes now and making medical insurance companies even richer, then waiting three years to have the insurance kick in and give me medical coverage, is good healthcare reform.” (More)
