Unca Darrell

AUGUST 25 / Commerce Clause 101

DO WE have a government that is limited in purpose and in its powers to do only the things that we, the sovereign people, gave it to do for certain designated purposes? Or is it an amorphous unlimited government that can do to us whatever it wants?

That depends on what the Commerce Clause means. This video from reason.tv is a good introduction to the issues federal courts will face in the lawsuits against Obamacare. 

August 25 / GITN

Irene Runnels King, "The One and Only," Garrison in the News, July 29, 2010

AUGUST 24 / How Boomers are . . .

. . . ruining the lives of their children and grandchildren.

AUGUST 24 / Dreams of Cordoba

THE HOUSTON Chronicle, quite naturally, is cheerleading the Ground Zero mosque, in part because of the magical qualities of the word . . .

AUGUST 23 / UPDATED: William Kent Coulter

 

BILL COULTER was a good reporter and, beneath the crusty surface and wreath of cigaratte smoke, a genuinely nice guy. I worked alongside him at the Houston Post in the early 1970s and acknowledge now what I knew then: He was far better at it. He also helped me and others with practical advice and generous encouragement, delivered with his trademark wry humor.  

Bill was also the last . . .

AUGUST 23 / Grrrl power at the Chronicle

A CHALLENGE for the modern left has been to reconcile calls for gender equality with the heart-felt belief of many libs that women are, well, just plain better than the other kind, that estrogen is preferable to testosterone. More caring and sharing. More willing to ask directions when lost. The Chronicle recently squared that circle of stereotypes by citing . . .

AUGUST 22 / A present contoversy reminds me . . .

. . . of a question sometimes asked from the pulpit: If you were arrested for being a Christian . . .

AUGUST 22 / Political philosophy, original sin, and Obama

ONE OF THE OBJECTS of a mature political philosophy is to reconcile people to the painful limitations of . . .

AUGUST 21 / Let's help somebody today

 

HOW ABOUT Living Water International? These folks drill water wells and install pumps to provide safe, clean water to millions around the globe. 

(The dirty water in the cupped hands to the left is what LWI replaces.)

 You can contribute online or by mail to . . .

AUGUST 21 / GITN

Joyce Dorris, "Out in Arlam," Garrison in the News, July 29, 2010