Daily Archives: October 22, 2006

Letters To The Editor


To The Editor:


Bush bill-signing statements


President Bush has attached over 800 bill-signing statements on bills he has signed during his term of office. These bill-signing statements are the most sweeping usurpation of congressional and judicial authority ever conceived by a president in this country. In effect, it puts everyone on notice that even though the President has signed a bill into law, he reserves the right to interpret and/or ignore the law if (in his sole judgment) he believes he has presidential authority to do so. No such over-reaching power should be held by anyone.


Congress should act immediately to stop this practice. I am not prepared to cede this kind of power to any President

A New Hope


A New Hope


The Democrat running for the office of Attorney General of Texas in the general election this fall has given me hope.


With little name recognition, David Van Os

Self-aware Leftovers Is A Sure Sign Of Trouble


Self-aware Leftovers Is A Sure Sign Of Trouble


There

Confederate Savior Turns Tyrant On Home-Front


Confederate Savior Turns Tyrant On Home-Front


With Galveston under enemy occupation and the second largest port of Indianola about to fall into Yankee hands, Texas

Things I Can


Things I Can

Senator Jeff Wentworth:


Senator Jeff Wentworth:

Prosecutions Or Persecutions


Prosecutions Or Persecutions


Oh, what a week we have just lived through. There have been events popping up all around us, near and far, some of immeasurable magnitude and others apparently miniscule in scale.


Then again, one never knows when that ever pesky “Chaos Theory” (or “Butterfly Effect”) will turn a pound of glimmering 24-carat gold into a steaming lump of horse manure with the mere swish of a tail.


On the larger scale of existence beneath a dome insulated in ignorant bliss, King George XLIII couldn

Sexy Calendars: A Grave Business?


Sexy Calendars: A Grave Business?


In recent years, there

Cowboys And Cowgirls Don


Cowboys And Cowgirls Don

Putting Trust In The Boy Who Cried


Putting Trust In
The Boy Who Cried

Greenhouse Gases Caused Antarctic Ice To Fall: Study


LONDON

Lt. Watada


NORMAN, Okla.

Toxins Increase Breast Cancer Risk: Study


LONDON

Scholars Accept Pope


AMMAN, Jordan

NAACP To Monitor Texas Elections This Fall


BALTIMORE

Probe Finds BP At Fault In 2005 Refinery Blast


HOUSTON

Air America Radio Files For Bankruptcy Protections


NEW YORK CITY, N.Y.

Conference For Media Reform Offers Scholarships


MEMPHIS, Tenn.

U.S. Policy Revised For Space Dominance


WASHINGTON

15 Protestors Arrested As Bush Signs Terror Law


WASHINGTON

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