The joke's on  the jokesters --  the late-night comics punching away at John McCain for the unforgivable offense of  having attained his three score and ten. (For kids, that's a reference to a really, really old book called the Bible; and a :"score," guys, is 20.) 

Last Tuesday, March 4, my daughter, Cecilia, informed me that she and her husband, Chris, (both Republicans) voted for Hillary.  Their reason, they want the battle between Senator(s) Clinton and Obama to continue all the way into the Democrat’s National Convention to be held at the Pepsi Convention Center (aka “The Can”) this August (25 thru 28) in Denver, Colorado.  Not only do they want the Democrat Party to be split, but also, they prefer the Democrat presidential front-runners spend their campaign funds battling each other instead of targeting Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee.  Though I had a similar inclination to vote for Senator Obama when I voted earlier, I must say that my daughter and son-in-law’s strategy was not bad thinking.

The GOP races for state representative were difficult to interpret.

But the players certainly have no shortage of opinions.

Do you want a high interest rate on Municipal Bonds? The city of Houston is having to pay 7.7160% interest on seven day municipal bond paper. While interest rates on new issuances of credit-worthy municipal bonds of cities are running around 3 per cent for a bond payable in a year or more and in the 5 per cent range for longer term bonds, Houston taxpayers are having to pay bond investors almost 8% for seven day paper. Bloomberg reports that Houston’s borrowing costs rose by $3 million in the month of February alone.