Health Care
Texans Lose Health Care, But Oppose Reform Bill
Two basic facts about health care are clear in this morning’s headlines: Many middle-class Texans are losing their health insurance; but, at the same time...Read More
The Health Care Reversal
Don’t look now, but the fortunes of the health care reform bill have greatly mproved. The AP is reporting today that Democrats in Congress hope to pass he...Read More
What’s In It for Me?
Here’s an exercise: Go to your local supermarket, stop 10 people—any 10 people—in the store and ask them how national health care reform, if it were p...Read More
Democrats: A Portrait in Gutlessness
I didn’t realize just how spooked congressional Democrats had become following the Massachusetts special Senate election until I read this recent E.J. Dio...Read More
What Caused the Health Care Failure?
The Washington Post ran an analysis piece the other day entitled, “Obama’s Struggle with Health-Care Reform Echoes Clintons’ Failure in 1994.&...Read More
Conversion Story
How Bryan's Planned Parenthood director became a pro-life celebrity.
Abby Johnson was the 29-year-old executive director of Planned Parenthood in Bryan when she resigned in October. A month later, she was on Mike Huckabee’s...Read More
The Health Care Debacle
I survived the Bush years by employing a simple mantra: “It’s best not to think about it.” I would mutter this to myself whenever events of th...Read More
Lessons Unlearned
Long before the Legislature made vaccines optional, Texans united to fight polio.
As the nation obsesses over whether swine flu will eventually mutate into an unstoppable pandemic, a germ from the past has been making an unlikely comeback in ...Read More
Always True to Us, Darling, in Her Fashion
Let me begin by saying that I feel bad for Kay Bailey Hutchison. It couldn’t have been easy to carve out a niche for herself in the Republican boys’...Read More
Coal Star State
While America turns away from dirty energy, Texas could soon have 12 new coal-fired power plants. What gives?
One February night in 2007, a boisterous crowd from all around Texas—old-school ranchers and farmers, fresh-faced Baylor students, environmentalists new and o...Read More