1. China and Vietnam, economic giants on the brink of change or collapse
(Viewpoints/Guest Viewpoint)

...ment, but the absence of conflicting voices brings them inexorably towards a social revolution. At the same time, the capitalist world, which has tried to absorb both in the production chain, closing ...

2. Toyota May Soon Announce Recall of Lexus
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...nd that the corporation was continuing its investigation on whether the Lexus had been affected by the same issues, which have prompted complaints from Prius owners over a brief "empty" sens...

3. Global Warming Made Me One Heck of a Tamale Maker!
(Viewpoints/James Reza)

...rge pots of tamales atop the stove I saw light at the end of the tunnel.  Around 8:30 pm, my wife sampled the first pot of tamales and gave me a thumb up sign, meaning that the tamales were done ...

4. Interview: Higher Education Commissioner Paredes
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...ve funding before the student who is needy and hasn’t performed as well. We would allocate the same amount of money to all the institutions that they currently get, and that would only change ...

5. Sun Tzu and America’s Way of War
(Viewpoints/Guest Viewpoint)

....S. embassy, every CIA station chief, and above all every American city from nuclear terrorism. At the same time, we don’t know where to attack and what to attack as al-Qaeda metastasizes all ov...

6. Take The Money and Run
(Viewpoints/John Browning's LEGALLY SPEAKING)

...ant that too – just not from the people trying to rob them.  One holdup artist targeted the same Bank Atlantic branch in Broward County, Florida four times between February and October, 200...

7. San Antonio GOP Win-Win Ideas on Health Care and Immigration Reforms
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

... structural problems, such as the high costs of health insurance premiums and medical care. Yet at the same time, the United States offers the best medical care in the world. Some San Antonio GOP op...

8. 2010 Debate in GOP Determines Future of the Country
(Viewpoints/Guest Viewpoint)

On January 20, 2010 Massachusetts elected a Republican to the U.S. Senate, indeed to the same seat once held by Democrat "Lion of the Senate" Ted Kennedy-this after exactly one year of faile

9. American Total Debt 'Bubble' Threatens GDP
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...ticles of the Roundtable. The shocking fact is that most of the roundtable participants understand the same difficulties that other debt experts deal with every single week, but are mostly positive in...

10. Chicago Losing 'Hope' in Obama
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...f Washington so his boots have got a little muddy." According to the Times, "his colleague Sam is less understanding. 'I don't think he's done nothing, the situation's got worse and worse ...

11. Are Republicans really the answer?
(Viewpoints/Guest Viewpoint)

...major gains this year but electing Republican politicians is not necessarily the answer and is not the same thing as ending the march of big government liberalism. The Republican Party arose from th...

12. Justice Roberts Ponders Overturning Roe V. Wade
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...stroying the McCain-Feingold campaign law, Roberts joined alongside with fellow Bush appointee Justice Samuel Alito to issue a separate concurrence "to address the importance of judicial restrain...

13. Suns 112, Dallas 106: The Maverick In The Rye
(Sports/Mike Fisher's SCHOOL OF FISH)

... minutes. (That ended up being his total, which I’ll get to in a moment.)    At that same point, Stoudemire – who likes to call himself “STAT’’ – had pr...

14. Deficit Soars while Congressional Earmarks Continue Unabated
(Viewpoints/Guest Viewpoint)

...t was not very high relative to the economy. But now the debt has shot up. The cushion is gone. If the same thing (a severe recession) happened again, we wouldn't be able to borrow to deal with it.&qu...

15. The Real Dangers of Consumerism
(Viewpoints/Guest Viewpoint)

...h. It is ironic that politicians and clergy attack consumerism in the marketplace, while at the same time they embrace consumerism as their mode of operation. The saddest aspect of consumer...

16. 15.7% Drop in Remittances to Mexico
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

... remittances to Mexico will likely continue to drop through the first half of 2010when compared to the same period of 2009. To read the entire article from the Houston Chronicle, link here: Tmcgre...

17. Obamas' Use Wrong Hands for 'Pledge of Allegiance'
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...sia, so he may not have been properly taught how to show his patriotism to the American flag. But, the same cannot be said for his wife, Michelle Obama, who made the same mistake as her husband, when ...

18. Mysterious Pig Heads Found in Malaysia Mosques
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

... He told reporters, "by looking at the modus operandi of the two incidents ... I think it is the same group that is involved in the previous attacks." To read the entire article from the ...

19. Two Koreas Exchange Shots Near Naval Border
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

... a statement carried by the official Korean News Agency, it says that such drills "will go in the same waters in the future," according to General Staff of the (North) Korean Peoples' Army. ...

20. Putting Americans Back to Work‏
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...year ago in February, I laid out the need for a Texas-sized private jobs program nationally around the same time as President Obama was speaking to Congress in support of his “stimulus package.&...

21. Dalai Lama and China Resume Talks
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...dia at the beginning of February." The Dalai Lama's representative for Northern Europe, Thubten Samdup, spoke to the BBC's China Editor Shirong Chen. Thubten hinted that China may now be more w...

22. Burger King Serves Unhealthy Lunches to Poor Schoolchildren
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...ration as much as $140 million from 2008 to 2013. Not only does Chicago and D.C. districts share the same food service, but both suffer from high rates of poverty and child obesity, in what has been...

23. Texas Has Largest 10-Year Growth in Private Sector Jobs Among All States
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...sp; Florida was the only other large state to realize a net gain in private sector employment over the same period with 259,500 net jobs gained for a percentage net gain of 4.31 percent from December ...

24. The West and Who We Are
(Viewpoints/Guest Viewpoint)

...nd more.  An elderly gentleman once asked me how someone could be pro-life and pro-guns at the same time.  A little girl during a parade cried for “faith and freedom” like it ...

25. Hopefully, Help Abounds
(Viewpoints/Guest Viewpoint)

...ight consecutive years or two 6 year terms (Senators)) in public office, especially the same office. In other words, the limit is 12 years if serving in the U.S. Senate. If one has a...

26. Global Fatigue and trust deficit
(Viewpoints/Guest Viewpoint)

...nistan in February 1989 and heralded the downfall of the Soviet empire nine months later. It also led Osama bin Laden to believe that his Arab mujahedin recruits toppled one evil empire and that he ha...

27. Governor candidates raise big bucks
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...age his own opponent on the issues, and, as a result, is trying to throw mud on Hank and Farouk at the same time,” Leibowitz told LSR. A spokesman for Kinky’s campaign could not be immed...

28. Call Me What You Want White Democrats
(Viewpoints/James Reza)

...e illegal immigrants who worked at a lower wage than American Hispanic farm laborers.  Yet, these same people, along with Mr. Chavez, were and still are proponents of illegal immigration.  I...

29. The No-Recovery Economy and the 2010 Elections
(Viewpoints/Guest Viewpoint)

...e are extracts from his interview yesterday with George Stephanopoulos on ABC News:   The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office. People are angry, and the...

30. Planned Parenthood Fundraising For Haiti Abortions
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...od Federation of America, Liz Clark, claimed that her organization and the IPPF/WHR were "not the same organization." To read the entire article from the Wahington Times, link here: Tmcg...

31. The Impact of Declining Sales Tax Revenues in Texas
(Viewpoints/Tom Pauken)

...tax collection figures. December sales tax collections in Texas were down 11.6 percent compared to the same period last year.  This follows ten straight months of declines in sales tax revenue st...

32. Foiled By Facebook
(Viewpoints/John Browning's LEGALLY SPEAKING)

...es of the distinctive writing throughout his MySpace page, and police matched photos from that page to samples on local buildings.  Just in case that wasn’t overwhelming enough, Fitzgerald ...

33. Japan Airlines Goes Bankrupt
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...ot;basically, this shows that nothing is to big to fail, that America's GM and Japan's JAL were in the same situation. What this shows is that the nation won't just take total care of a company that t...

34. The Way We Were
(Viewpoints/Guest Viewpoint)

...hose who may depend upon us because of our love and duty incumbent.  A country is not exactly the same thing as family, but we typically do call upon our leaders to prefer their own and to know t...

35. Japan on Brink of Financial Disaster
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

.... Mr. McCulley discerns that deflation would be the inevitable consequence. Yet in a sense that is the same point. The moment a nation embarks on such policies, the game is almost up. The IMF believes...

36. FCC And China Seek to Regulate Websites
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...ki is following the Internet restriction guidelines set forth by China's Communist Party, while at the same time ignoring Obama's pledge to ban political censorship on the Web. Yet, the FCC is adding ...

37. Ben's impotent interest rates
(Viewpoints/Guest Viewpoint)

...ain the key US financial policymaker. Hence, Bernanke threw back to the AEA participants the same arguments he presented to the US Congress: the housing bubble was caused by exotic mortgage ...

38. The Role of Neoconservatives -- and Israel's Right Wing -- in the War in Iraq
(Viewpoints/Guest Viewpoint)

...inning with the removal of Saddam Hussein and the installation of a Hashemite monarchy in Baghdad. The same people -- Feith, Wurmser, Perle -- would later advise the Bush administration "to pursu...

39. FCC Czar Demands Websites "Promote the Public Interest"
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

... China. It seems odd that he permitted the FCC to regulate the World Wide Web in the U.S. while at the same time denouncing China for doing the same thing. Yet even more shocking, the FCC czar does ...

40. Gov. Perry Calls for Fiscal Discipline
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...fulfill his campaign promise in 2006, how can he expect Texans to trust him in 2010, when he makes the same exact promise." Not surprisingly, Mr. popunder failed to mention that Sen. Hutchison ...

41. Darwin Says Chill
(Viewpoints/Guest Viewpoint)

...e marble and its diverse life forms will somehow muddle through until the sun sputters out and, at the same time, a climatologist shouting doom from the rooftops. Well, maybe your god has failed you. ...

42. The 411 On 911 ‘Emergencies Part 1 of 2
(Viewpoints/John Browning's LEGALLY SPEAKING)

...h can be another’s treasure, and what one individual feels is an emergency might not command the same level of urgency from others.  As far as the latter is concerned, some people have such...

43. Tejano Monument Comes to Capitol of Texas
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...olding an infant." Officials said that the base of the monument will be sunset-red granite, the same as the stone of the 1888 statehouse, permitting a visual connection to the Capitol. Laredo...

44. Singapore Economy Slumping
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...on record in Singapore.   Nonetheless, the economy actually grew by 3.5% when compared with the same three-month period in 2008. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore said last week tha...

45. Atlanta Journal-Constitution Denounces Brit Hume
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...dded suggets otherwise, as Hume hints that he has found grace and forgiveness in Christ and wishes the same personally for Tiger Woods, a man whose sexual sins have found him out." In 2008, pri...

46. Arctic Blast Freezes Global Warming
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...ghts were delayed or cancelled at Beijing International Airport. As reported by the Times, "the same far-eastern weather system took its toll of Sokholin, the Russian island off Siberia, which ...

47. GOP House Bids Dealing with Cash Woes
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...g $50,000 or more during that time period." The Democratic Congressional Committee, during that same time period, has accumulated almost $4 million from 90 of its members - with 35 Congressiona...

48. Rush Limbaugh Hospitalized in Hawaii
(Dallas Blog/DALLAS BLOG)

...Limbaugh had become legendary for his sarcastic put downs of liberal policies, off-color parodies, and sameless self-promotion. He started capturing conservative listeners in the 1980s and grew to bec...

49. Wag the Dog
(Viewpoints/Guest Viewpoint)

... salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14 percent to 19 percent of the federal workforce during the same period, not including overtime or bonuses. Those in the private sector, being taxed...

50. The Yemeni Front in the War on Terror
(Viewpoints/Guest Viewpoint)

...lueless) clown to interview? No wonder he wanted to remain anonymous. As Ghosh points out later in the same article, Abdulmutallab admitted having links to al-Qaeda and said that the plot originated i...