Judge Dennise Garcia Video

October 24, 2006.Reading time 1 minute.

Wanted to give you a heads up about the new campaign video from my wife, Judge Dennise Garcia. It’s a website video, intended for you to: 1) watch for yourself, and then 2) send off to your friends with a note about Dennise and why they should vote for her. Click here to watch the […]

Yard Signs: We’ve Got ‘Em, and You Need One.

September 28, 2006.Reading time 2 minutes.

The Re-Elect Judge Dennise Garcia campaign continues to roll along through September. The big push this month for the Judge is to attend a lot of campaign events. The big push for her many volunteers and friends has been to get out the yard signs. Several of you have told me that you have seen […]

Judge Garcia Gets the Dallas Morning News Endorsement

September 19, 2006.Reading time 2 minutes.

The buttons are popping off my shirt today, and not because I haven’t been exercising. This morning, the Dallas Morning News has come out with it’s editorial endorsements for the Family District Courts in Dallas County. My favorite Judge, Dennise Garcia, gets the nod for her court, the 303rd State District Court. Every now and […]

Five Years Later: Remembering the hole in my heart, and the question on my mind

September 12, 2006.Reading time 14 minutes.

Last night, Dennise and I watched a 911 documentary on CBS. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it. It’s from two French film-makers who, in the summer of 2001 shadowed a FDNY unit in an attempt to tell the story of a “rookie’s coming of age.” But late that summer, on the morning […]

Connecting the Dots on the Cost of Immigrants

August 26, 2006.Reading time 19 minutes.

I’m back to writing on immigration issues again. I’m not here tell you that migrant workers don’t cost the American economy. I’m sure they do. Every adult in this country costs the economy something. But if we are going to have a proper debate about the costs of migrant workers to our economy, then we […]

Questions that Keep My Up at Night (After a Foiled Terrorist Plot)

August 12, 2006.Reading time 8 minutes.

Why is our “Homeland Security” Department still wasting so much money? Despite this stunning and deft capture of terror suspects, the facts are that our government is wasting billions of dollars in a so-called War on Terror. I say “so called” not because we shouldn’t fight terrorism –we should. But some of the ways we’re […]

The Lack of Leadership on Fuel Economy

May 7, 2006.Reading time 4 minutes.

The Dallas Morning News is featuring a really good investigative story today about the kinds of cars our elected members of Congress from North Texas drive. You will remember that last week I posted a long rant about the importance of Hybrid Cars. I that rant, I wondered aloud why our elected leaders are not […]

Three Years Ago Today

May 2, 2006.Reading time 8 minutes.

“Shock and Awe” by Neil Young Back in the days of “mission accomplished” Our chief was landing on the deck The sun was setting on a golden photo op Back in the days of “mission accomplished” Thousands of bodies in the ground Brought home in boxes to a trumpet’s sound No one sees them coming […]

Hybid Cars (You Need to Get You One)

April 29, 2006.Reading time 19 minutes.

Disclaimer: I am not unbiased about Hybrid Cars. I have drunk deeply from the Hybrid-hype Kool Aid. I am a Hybrid evangelist. If Hybrid owners had a religion, I would be a Scientologist. All that said, my message today is very simple: you need to get you one of ’em. See, I know that loses […]

Immigration Misinformation

April 26, 2006.Reading time 11 minutes.

A follow up to my writing on the MegaMarch… A lot of email friends forward me “chain” emails. Often, they are harmless (and sometimes very funny) jokes.Sometimes, they are heart-wrenching stories of little children in need of kidney dialysis. And, now and then, they are political treatises, begging me to understand an issue more and […]