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Opinion | Does Trump Risk Turning America Into a Rogue State?

War is barbaric. Pete Hegseth with a comic-book-warrior persona seems to be living out a comic-book fantasy, where only bad guys suffer. But in real war, real people suffer and die.

Does Trump Risk Turning America Into a Rogue State? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/o...

Oil Tankers Burn Near Iraq As Iranian Strikes Defy Trump's Claim To Have 'Won' The War The conflict has spread across the Middle East and prompted plans for a record release of strategic oil reserves to dampen one of the worst fuel shocks since the 1970s.

Trump claims "we won the war." I'm getting "tired of winning."

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How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran’s Response to War

It happens to people who know they are smarter than everyone else.

How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran’s Response to War www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

U.S. Solar Installations Fell in 2025 as Trump Attacked Clean Energy

The idiot in chief is sabotaging America's transition to renewable energy while whacking the Middle East hornets' nest and driving up the cost of oil and gas.

U.S. Solar Installations Fell in 2025 as Trump Attacked Clean Energy www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/b...

Opinion | There are two winners in Iran. Neither one is America. Oil disruption benefits Russia, as does less U.S. aid for Ukraine. And Iran distracts from China.

What's notable about this article is how China embraces new innovative technology like EVs while Trump sabotages our effort to transcend from the old technology to the new.

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Opinion | We Are Being Governed by Unserious People

Responsible work is being ignored by Trump's irresponsible people and we, the Americans, pay the price.

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Tomlinson: Texas oil and gas profits from Iran war — for now Texas oil and gas companies will earn higher profits due to the Iran war, but sustained high prices could trigger a global recession.

War in the Middle East is good for the Texas oil and gas business, even if it’s bad for American consumers. Here's why what happens next could lead to inflation and recession. www.houstonchronicle.com/business/col... #txlege @houstonchronicle.com

Trump administration may reverse course on Big Bend border wall U.S. Customs and Border Protection has updated a border wall map on its website to show a large section of the U.S.-Mexico border around Big Bend is slated for a "detection technology" project.

Let's hope. We don't need a wall - especially ln Big Bend.

Trump administration signals change in course on Big Bend border wall www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...

Author Sandra Cisneros to Texas A&M: The world is watching you censor education Cisneros, awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2015, said she wants Texas A&M students to understand that the world is watching their education being censored and will not look away.

Texas colleges and universities have great potential but are hampered by Texas politicians who fear an educated Texans.

Author Sandra Cisneros to Texas A&M students: The world is watching your education being censored www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

ICE detention gets colder for beloved HISD soccer captain: 'I'm more afraid' Mauro Yosueth Henriquez is one of the thousands of students in the U.S. illegally who disappeared from American classrooms in President Trump’s ICE crackdown.

Just another one of the worst of he worst?

ICE detention couldn't get worse for beloved HISD soccer captain Mauro Henriquez. Then it did. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

How Latino voters in Texas made James Talarico the Democratic nominee for Senate Talarico dominated in Bexar and Webb counties and further south in the Rio Grande Valley. Combined, those four counties nearly offset all of Crockett's 70,000-vote margin across Dallas and...

Latinos are socially conservative people, and in Texas, have been voting Republican. Trump's racist targeting of them may turn them and Texas blue. Let's hope.

How Latino voters in Texas made James Talarico the Democratic nominee for Senate www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...

Virginia moves to forbid schools from teaching that Jan. 6 was peaceful In what appears to be a first in the country, legislation headed to the desk of Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) would prohibit public schools from teaching that the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capit...

History is what happened, but recorded history is someone's accurate or inaccurate/honest or dishonest account of what happened. It's foolish and futile to try to legislate the truth into the teaching of history. Well-intentioned but impossible.

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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Ousts Noem as Homeland Security Secretary

A good first step. But so many more - RFK Jr., Hegseth, Rubio ... - and of course, King Donald, himself, - all need to go.

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Ousts Noem as Homeland Security Secretary www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

Trump Wants a Quick Victory in Iran. But the War May Be Costly.

Underestimating cost and consequences probably explains why he bankrupted those casinos.

Trump Wants a Quick Victory in Iran. But the War May Be Costly. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

Poll: Most Houston-area residents favor a path to citizenship over deportation Three out of four Houston-area residents now favor a pathway to citizenship over mass deportation for immigrants.

One of GWB's few worthwhile goals was immigration reform. He couldn't get it through his GOP Congress because his fellow racist Repubs wanted to preserve the issue.

Poll: Three in four Houston-area residents favor path to citizenship over deportation www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

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Attacking Iran is doing God's work?

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Iran Live Updates: Global Markets Tumble After U.S. Warns War Could Last Weeks

We helped Isael start an unnecessary war because Iran would blame us anyway. The war is spreading, and the price of oil is going up.

Iran Live Updates: Global Markets Tumble After U.S. Warns War Could Last Weeks www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

Texas Democrats are surging in early voting. Will Republicans catch up? While Republicans are also experiencing robust early voting, Democrats in some of the state's largest counties had doubled the early turnout of 2022.

Let's hope. But I'll believe it whe I see Texas turn blue.

Texas Democrats are surging in early voting. Will Republicans catch up? www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politic...

Opinion | One and done? Trump’s Iran operation is unfortunately the opposite. Khamenei may be dead — but war with Iran isn’t over.

Don't expect a quick easy end.

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Opinion | How Israel Lost Americans

Equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism worked for a while. but the horrors inflicted on the Palestinians cannot be ignored by everyone forever.

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Opinion | The Case for Striking Iran

Regime change, should it happen, would be great, but don't count on it.
The Case for Striking Iran www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/o...

Live Updates: U.S. and Israel Strike Iran as Trump Calls for Overthrow of Government

I hope I'm wrong, but I don't expect this to end well. And it won't distract attention, for long, from the fact of Trump's place in the Epstein crime spree.

Live Updates: U.S. and Israel Strike Iran as Trump Calls for Overthrow of Government www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

Opinion | What Hath Trump Wrought

If America survives the destructive disaster that is Trump and his MAGA Republican criminal mob, it will need to rebuild. Let's hope it does a better job this time.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/o...

Trump Puts On a Show, Casting Democrats as the Villains

Skipped the mobster president's SOTU address and watched a movie on Netflix. From this account, it was a good for my blood pressure.

Trump Puts On a Show, Casting Democrats as the Villains www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

Texas will run a lottery to pick who gets a school voucher. Here's what to know. Students will be sorted into several tiers based on disability, income and other factors.

The demand for vouchers may exceed the $billion appropriated to fund for-profit "schools." But it's enough to makes for-profit "schools" profitable.

More than 100K students have applied to Texas' voucher program. A lottery determines who gets a spot. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...

Opinion | What Happened in Chicago When Science Became the Enemy

The barbarians are burning the libraries. They don't value pursuit of the unknown because in their ignorance they think they already know all the answers.

What Happened in Chicago When Science Became the Enemy www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

Part of why I make it a practice to vote against Republicans.

Worms in the food, putrid water: Why are kids still being detained in Dilley? As reports emerge about the horrid conditions inside the Dilley family detention center, it's become clear that the facility is in violation of a legal settlement protecting the rights of...

Little kids in for-profit prisons. Crimes against humanity!

Worms in the porridge, despair in their eyes: Why are we still detaining kids at Dilley? www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Texas could be sued for blocking Islamic schools from vouchers, Democrats say The callout comes two weeks after Hearst Newspapers reported that not a single Islamic private school has been allowed to participate in the program.

Of course, Gov. Abbott's school voucher program is a thinly vailed scam to divert Texas tax money to the support of religous schools. But only Christian, not Muslem.

Texas could be sued for blocking Islamic schools from vouchers, Democrats say www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...

Handing defeats to Trump, Supreme Court signals potential course change A pair of rulings on tariffs and National Guard deployment mark the justices’ first major decisions against the president. More may be coming.

Will Trump defy the Supreme Court? He probably would if he thought he could get away with it. But his political capital is depleting rapidly, so the Republic will probably survive.

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