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Remembering the tunnel rats

Editor:We were in Vietnam serving as tunnel rats. So many, so young. We never questioned orders.In order to prevail in the war we had to jump into tunnels dug by the enemy, encounteringcomplete...

People will accept higher rates

Taxpayers are not stupid and can accept paying taxes or increased rates, provided they can see they are getting something in return, like paved streets, good services and honest government....

PETA may become a joke

Today’s musical dedication goes out to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals: "I Started a Joke," by the Bee Gees. I still laugh when I think about the day PETA came to Brownsville....

A troubling terror trial

This song is dedicated to accused terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: "Free Me," by Roger Daltry. *** Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade...

Fighting the epidemic

Unemployment in the Rio Grande Valley has always been higher than the national average, making competition for jobs — especially good-paying jobs — especially fierce. New businesses will...

Silly games

We do love our toys, especially when we don’t have to pay for them. To their credit, some government officials are finally starting to tire of pouring taxpayers’ money into the $6.7...

A nation of ideas

On the 4th of July nearly 10 years ago, U.S. District Judge Filemon Vela asked me to give a speech to nearly 100 immigrants he would soon swear in as U.S. citizens. Why the judge would ask me to do...

Obama: Shades of Reagan

If you’re a person of a certain age, do you remember the way Ronald Reagan use to disarm his Democratic Party critics with such ease that you had to admire the grace and guile of the man, even...

Last Chance Deer

 For deer hunters in South Texas, Jan. 19 to Feb. 1 is the last window of opportunity to put venison in the freezer, and that venison cannot be wearing antlers. The "late antlerless and...

No insurance at gunpoint

No one is as fond of affordability as I am. Well, maybe this is wrong, but I am very fond of it. That extends to insurance. My home, car, health and sometimes travel insurance would at their...

Half-committed to liberty

John Stossel is a fine journalist with a serious libertarian political orientation. (I once worked with him on his ABC-TV special, “John Stossel Goes to Washing- ton,” broadcast a few...

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