From the Houston Chronicle: President Bush urged lawmakers today to come together on the complex and emotional issue of immigration, calling it “a critical challenge” now before the nation. “We need a system where our laws are respected. We need a system that meets the legitimate needs of our economy. And we need a system…
Category: Texas
HPD Loses Guns, Evidence
Earlier this week the Houston Police Department admitted that 21 guns were missing from their property room, two of which surfaced again in the hands of criminals. This is not good news for a department that recently received one heck of a stinger of a black eye when faulty DNA testing procedures tainted hundreds, possibly…
Death Penalty Revisited
The horrific murder of a Texas co-ed at the hands of an obsessed ex-boyfriend and a report of an even more sickening fate suffered by an innocent 6 year-old boy have been lodged in my psyche as if the stories were shards of glass blasted into my mind’s eye. I’ve read a lot lately about…
RE: Closed pension loophole could still cost us billions
Michael Hedges says that Texas teachers ripped off Social Security. I wrote this in response. Think they’ll print it? Michael Hedges says that teachers ripped off Social Security. But what does he say about the systemic injustice that denies teachers, mostly women, who toiled for years at sub-market wages, the benefits of their SPOUSE’S Social…
Kay Bailey Hutchison is Still Around?
In fact, she is running for another term as Texas’ senior senator. Kay Bailey’s running again? I had no idea her seat was even up for grabs this year. Seems like I heard her promise that the term that’s ending now would be her last. I like Kay for one simple reason: I’ve never known…
Spring, TX? No Thanks…
Some of you have undoubtedly heard about the skinheads who beat up and tortured a Mexican boy nearly to death in Spring. This happened in a reasonably nice neighborhood. Disgusting little fuckers, aren’t they? There are so many mental defectives involved in this hideous event that it’s hard to know where to begin unraveling it….
Turnabout is Fair Play
Prairie View A&M, a Texas college primarily attended by black students, is feeling the pain of integration. I have to laugh at this section: As more white and Hispanic students are attending Prairie View A&M, reflecting a trend at the nation’s 120 historically black colleges and universities, there is a sense that the land-grant institution…
Teacher Calls Teenager ‘Monkey’, Gets Fired
This happened in Longview, Texas. With an administration as supportive of its educators as this unlucky school district, it’s not surprising that the Texas education system is among the worst in the nation. How can otherwise rational, responsible people be moved to make such inane decisions? The last thing that needs to be done is…
Texas A&M In the News Again
Read a scathing commentary on the direction of our fine school. Given the de-emphasis on Aggie traditions in recent years, it’s hard not to see the accuracy of this statement. I think it is fair to say that few Aggies are interested in bringing so-called politically correct values to campus. At the same time, it…
Houston Air Quality
It’s nice to know that I only live in the city with the 9th worst air quality in the country. Here’s an idea: build a bike lane that actually goes someplace and see if people ride on it. Stupid idea? No worse than a train going from downtown (nowhere) to the medical center (nowhere)… Meanwhile,…