Quitting time
FULL STORY » All Texans need lawsuit reform
FULL STORY » Starting with zero
The Texas government must review, and justify, every dollar it spends
FULL STORY » A room with a view at the Ranger Motel
FULL STORY » Let's move beyond 'love it or leave it'
Throughout my 35-year career as a college professor I was often confronted with student challenges to anything that I said that could be interpreted as critical to this country. I was called a "communist" when a radio show host reported that I had told my Russia-China cultures class that Russia had made enormous economic improvement since the czar. She deduced that I must be pro-Soviet and perhaps even a card-carrying member of the Communist Party.
FULL STORY » Insurance tops agenda for reform
FULL STORY » A painful history of civil wrongs
FULL STORY » Who's afraid of black cats and the number 13?
FULL STORY » Net Losses
To protect growing shrimp and Kemp's ridleys, Texas' summer trawling ban must not be lifted.
FULL STORY » What's wrong with America?
FULL STORY » A word to Canada from its 'bully' Neighbor
FULL STORY » Ornaments of our lives
FULL STORY » Karl Rove engineered Lott's demise
No one should doubt for a moment the political sagacity of Karl Rove, the extraordinary White House political counselor whose fingerprints are all over the strategy that dethroned Trent Lott from his coveted Senate leadership post and replaced him with Bill Frist.
FULL STORY » Carrier's crew spend Christmas at sea
While the U.N. arms inspectors continue their investigations, the White House deliberates its next move, and most of America finishes Christmas shopping, the aircraft carrier USS Constellation is steaming through the Persian Gulf. 88,000 tons, 23 stories, and 4.5 acres of sovereign American territory, she will likely be a centerpiece in a strike on Iraq, when and if it comes.
FULL STORY » Should we abolish state board of education?
FULL STORY » People of good will must reject voices of hate
FULL STORY » We depend on barge traffic
The inland waterways system - a vital artery that relieves highway congestion - is being underfunded and neglected
FULL STORY » Remember the great lights at the Aldridge home?
FULL STORY » Out of this world
What is the government hiding about the close encounters with UFO's
FULL STORY » Street-corner charity: Is it right to give?
I was stopped at a traffic signal not long ago. A chill drizzle was falling, the kind that drills shivers into your bones.
FULL STORY » Remembering the lessons from Kosovo, and Vietnam
Juan M. Garcia's intelligent and articulate Forum column ("It's time to rethink our role in NATO"), which appeared in the Caller-Times on Dec. 3, tells the story of Arkan, a Serbian thug notorious for organizing and leading gangs of criminals on deadly terror escapades among the villages of Kosovo.
FULL STORY » Saving the estuaries
Closely monitored releases of Nueces freshwater are crucial to system's survival
FULL STORY » Pollsters are due a long, skeptical look
Polling isn't as easy as it used to be, and there is something I would like to say about that: joy, oh joy.
FULL STORY » Never forget: Make room for joy, laughter
Another year draws to an end. It's as good a time as any to take stock of what we did right and what we did wrong in the current year. Did I make mistakes? Absolutely. If you didn't, someone should check your pulse and see if you're still alive.
FULL STORY » Board runs wild
Liberals, conservatives go to grotesque lengths to influence textbook content
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