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Seeking middle ground

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:06:57 GMT

? ? We dedicate this song to all Americans who feel that their elected officials don?t reflect their personal views: “Stuck in the Middle With You,” by Stealers Wheel. *** Our nation?s political battles are becoming more contentious. Last week?s outburst by U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., during President Obama?s speech on socialized health care last week is only [...]

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It Could Be Make-Or-Break On Rest Stops

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:41:57 GMT

You know things are getting tough when states are taking away toilets from the people. In this case, we refer to highway rest stops, those essential way stations where humans, and often their pets, make pit stops on their?frequent journeys. Residents of Arizona are having to make do – in a bad way – when it [...]

It Could Be Make-Or-Break On Rest Stops is a post from: The Daily Chisme

Gov. Rick Runs Roughshod Over Opponents

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:02:29 GMT

A day rarely mentioned in U.S. history – July 16, 1787 – is the day the Constitution was saved. That’s the judgment made by historian Gordon Wood of Brown University, a Pulitzer Prize winner who wrote The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787. It was on that day, July 16, 1787, Wood wrote, that delegates to [...]

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Inabilities don?t mean people are incapacitated

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:34:02 GMT

? We offer a musical dedication to people who seem to think that people who are less adroit are less human: “Why Am I Treated So Bad,” by the Staple Singers. Many people agree that one of the most brilliant minds on the planet right now churns inside the little head of Stephen W. Hawking. The British [...]

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Jefferson Fails To Meet Board?s Religious Test

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:25:02 GMT

After another round of trouncing from the conservative wing of the Texas Board of Education, a dissenting board member, Mary Helen Berlanga, made clear her frustrations with the developments at hand. “They can’t just pretend this is a white America and Hispanics don’t exist,” said Berlanga, a board member from Corpus Christi. Actually, they can and did, [...]

Jefferson Fails To Meet Board’s Religious Test is a post from: The Daily Chisme

Markets, Not Mandates Sounds Good

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:22:21 GMT

Imagine a world where there is not a single employer or company that offers its workers health insurance as a standard benefit of employment. The deductions currently taken from the paycheck of the typical employee would go directly into the worker’s pay as additional income. With those extra dollars, the employee would be free to buy [...]

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McHi Prevails But Porter Wins Hearts

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:36:10 GMT

This is why we watch sports. That’s a thought after watching the scintillating ending of a classic Olympic hockey game on Sunday between U.S. and Canadian teams, with the winner earning the gold medal. The U.S. team rallied from a 2-0 deficit and scored a tying goal in the waning seconds in regulation play. In overtime, [...]

McHi Prevails But Porter Wins Hearts is a post from: The Daily Chisme

Tea Party, Tancredo Link Limits Reach

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:46:50 GMT

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Congress pops its top; you foot the bill

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:29:28 GMT

? ? Today?s dedication is for the U.S. Congress: “Pop a Top,” by Jim Ed Brown. *** The House of Representatives, as expected, voted today to raise the government?s debt limit ? by a whopping $1.9 trillion. That?s not the total, but just the increase in the limit. Senators approved the increase last week. The increase raises the overall federal debt [...]

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Age Old Debate Defines Tussle Over Health Care

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:25:48 GMT

Watching the political partisan divide in Washington is sometimes entertaining, at times discouraging, and surely many times perplexing. There are,??and have always been, wide philosophical differences between Democrats and Republicans, which often boil down to?disagreeing on?the role and extent of government involvement in American life. ? Growing up, I didn’t have to go far to get? a [...]

Age Old Debate Defines Tussle Over Health Care is a post from: The Daily Chisme

Getting To A Vote Is American Way

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:20:08 GMT

In 1961, a former actor and budding politician warned the end of freedom in America was at hand if? legislation known as Medicare was passed in Congress, and then signed into law. “We will awake to find that we have socialism,” the former actor said in a message recorded for the American Medical Association. “One of [...]

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PETA risks becoming a joke

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:24:58 GMT

?Today?s musical dedication goes out to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals: “I Started a Joke,” by the Bee Gees. *** I still laugh when I think about the day PETA came to Brownsville. It was April 2005, and a trio from the Norfolk, Va.,-based animal advocacy group stopped by on their national tour protesting chicken [...]

PETA risks becoming a joke is a post from: Ivory Tower

Stimulating Jobs And Arguments Across America

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:33:05 GMT

Government has never created a single job, or so goes a classic American saying, especially in these days of recession and raging arguments over the merits of? job bills and stimulus packages. It is a quaint American notion, the idea of small businesses being the engine of the U.S. economy, creating payrolls, and generating? jobs. And [...]

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Crawling out of the abyss?

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:06:56 GMT

? This dedication is offered to the district courts in Cameron County: “Highway to Hell,” by AC/DC. ?*** With primary elections just a few days away, several people are battling for available spots on various court benches. As is local custom, people are trying to win favor, and votes, by throwing parties, shaking hands and hiring politiqueras to [...]

Crawling out of the abyss? is a post from: Ivory Tower

BISD Revels In Stonewalling

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:52:50 GMT

Sometimes when I’m bored, and I pause between moments of wonderment that you can put New Orleans Saints and Super Bowl champions in the same sentence, I tumble through my mind in?recalling how many superintendents the Brownsville Independent School District has had over the last decade. There was?one superintendent who did a fine job and was [...]

BISD Revels In Stonewalling is a post from: The Daily Chisme

Othal Brand: Actions earned respect; abrasiveness eroded it

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:06:54 GMT

We offer a dedication to the memory of the late Othal Brand, who died Saturday: “A Well Respected Man,” by the Kinks. *** ? We confess to great ambivalence about Brand, who died Saturday at age 90. For the past decade many McAllen-area residents thought of the fiery Brand as a cantankerous old goat. In a way, that?s [...]

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A troubling terror trial

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:08:32 GMT

This song is dedicated to accused terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: “Free Me,” by Roger Daltry. *** Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, could soon be a free man. What form that freedom remains to be seen. President Barack Obama recently proclaimed that Mohammed most certainly [...]

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?I do? ? Oh, no you don?t

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:04:41 GMT

We dedicate this song to forbidden lovers: “Secretly,” by Jimmy Rodgers. *** Marriage is one of the most sacred, significant and personal things most people will face in their lives. That?s precisely why the government has no business even being in the marriage business. States throughout the country have been debating the issue of gay marriage for years. [...]

?I do? ? Oh, no you don?t is a post from: Ivory Tower

Cornyn seeks to help border crossings

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:31:05 GMT

?U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, on Friday announced that he will refile a bill to improve U.S. border crossings. The bill, which he calls the Emergency Port of Entry Personnel and Infrastructure Funding Act, intends “to encourage further trade and more efficient travel in the Valley and all along our border.” according to a news [...]

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