Generally I write my own thoughts to post on my blog. Sometimes we are better by reading others particularly in the current times. Panic buying needs to stop and calm prevail. This situation is difficult for us all, worse for some but together we can get through it. Wirecutter 5 Ways to Help Your Community … More 5 Ways To Help

This article in today’s New York Times displays the courage and importance of journalists. In China getting the news out is risky business. Although we have some courageous journalists in the US too often getting the news out is primarily business. As China Cracks Down on Coronavirus Coverage, Journalists Fight Back The Communist Party is … More Journalists Matter

If you recall Senator Joseph McCarthy during the 50s used his political podium to challenge good Americans claiming they were communist sympathizers. His war against good people went on until he went after the military. At that point the public said no Senator Joe that’s as far as you go. We may be at a … More Remember McCarthy, Think Yonanovitch

This was posted in March of 2017. It seems more relevant now. Calling for a wall that essentially has minimal or no purpose because it was a campaign pledge is ridiculous at best. The campaign promise included how the wall would be paid for. Forcing American workers to suffer economic hardship and harming our economy … More A Tale of Three Walls

If you get up each day, go to work, struggle to make ends meet, watch for sales at the stores and worry most about the education of your children, then you are a working person. People don’t need or want much. A decent place to live, a chance to eat out occasionally, and family vacations … More A Time For Reaping

The Trump Administration has cancelled hundreds of regulations which cost companies and people money according to the Budget Director. Fortunately in Houston companies and areas in Texas there was no or very limited costs. Unfortunately for people of Texas the costs in money and heartbreak are astronomical. After all Houston is and has been the … More The Regulatory Pendulum Swings

We like to claim the first amendment as our own after all it is in our constitution.  Our country has its roots in the right to practice our religion, any religion and I assume the denial of any God.  Now we feel a need to pass so called “Religious Freedom” legislation.  The essence of this … More Church Fences, Government Gates