The Fallacy of Judging the Past by Today’s Standards
The trend of discrediting historical figures based on their failure to live up to today’s moral standards reached a fevered ...
The Numbers on COVID Vaccine Breakthroughs
Recently, there has been a great deal of media chatter about people falling sick with COVID after being vaccinated or ...
Update on US & Texas COVID Stats for September – Delta Decline Well Underway
As of the end of September, the Delta wave was in decline throughout almost all of the United States. The ...
The Cost of Nationalizing Local Elections
Another day, another bid rigging scandal in Houston. This one was so bad that even the City of Houston Housing ...
Update on US & Texas COVID Stats – More Signs of a Delta Peak
As of September 20, more encouraging signs have emerged suggesting that the current delta variant wave of COVID has peaked ...
Less Than a Quarter of Texans View Incumbent Parties as “Very Favorable”
Support for the Democratic and Republican parties continues to collapse. In a poll just released by the University of Texas’ ...
Hidalgo Lied
I lauded County Judge Lina Hidalgo for committing to not take campaign contribution from county contractors shortly after she was ...
Abbott and Hidalgo Continue to Politicize Vaccines
Earlier this week, Governor Greg Abbott continued to undermine vaccination efforts by updating his previous executive order to now even ...
Epidemic of Public Corruption in Texas
In case you missed it, Greg Groogan just reported on one of the most egregious political pay-offs I have ever ...
State Data Clearly Shows Vaccines Reduce Hospitalizations
Notwithstanding all the anecdotal accounts of “breakthrough” COVID cases, which the media so loves to trumpet, the data from the ...
Results of the SAM Election Bill Survey
As you may recall, the SAM Party of Texas sent out a survey recently asking Texans about their opinion on ...
Update on US & Texas COVID Stats – No Peak in Sight Yet
So far, the current surge in COVID infections that began in July shows little sign of letting up. However, there ...
COVID Vaccines Should be Mandated for Senior Care Facilities
We have understood since the early days of the pandemic that older Americans with comorbidities were particularly at risk of ...
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