Common Sense

I’ve been working at the Trib nearly 5 years now and I still don’t get to do the picks box. Not even the college picks box, something I know about.
So, if you wanna complain with me, send Jerry Hill and email and tell him to let me in! I think they are all afraid I’ll […]

Iraq isn’t so much a quagmire as it is a training ground for jihadists.
When the United States struck Afghanistan in 2001, “there were probably 3,000 core Al Qaeda operatives,” says [John] Arquilla of the Naval Postgraduate School. “We killed or captured about 1,000; about 1,000 more ended up in distant parts of the world. And […]

From the Desk of
Jim Dunnam
State Representative, District 57
 
            I want to take this opportunity to ask you to join me in welcoming State Representative Rick Noriega to Waco.  Rick is running for the United States Senate and I would invite you to come visit with Rick and see what he is about.  I have […]

You can take that as a joke if you want to, but they are reporting that Afghanistan’s opium production is at “frightening levels.”
Afghanistan is now responsible for 93 per cent of global opium production, according to the UNODC.
“The amount of Afghan land used for growing opium is now larger than the combined total under coca […]

Alberto Gonzales has resigned, to be replaced by the Solicitor General Paul Clement as interim AG. As you can imagine, many Democrats and just about anyone who has not had a hemispherectomy are ecstatic. Here is the text of his resignation speech.
Of course, just because Fredo’s gone doesn’t mean that Congress is going to stop […]

Today several of the U.S. intelligence agencies released a report that paints a grim outlook for the future of Iraq… politically.
The assessment, known as the National Intelligence Estimate, casts strong doubts on the viability of the Bush administration strategy in Iraq. It gives a dim prognosis on the likelihood that Iraqi politicians can heal deep […]

My new little sister has ended her visit with us and gone back home to Ballinger.
I have to say that I’m sad; I liked having her around. At the same time, now that she is gone, I get to have my sanity back. I’ve been subsisting on 5 hours of sleep at most a night […]

As Bruce Fein says in Wednesday’s Slate, we can’t just take impeachment off the table.
Not when our brilliant commander-in-chief believes that we should have staid in Vietnam and uses that analogy to keep us in Iraq.
The president said US involvements in Vietnam and in other places in Asia was not popular during that time and […]

Not being the techno-geek that I should be to really speak about this problem, I can only tell you it has given me a headache.
I don’t know which one I’m going to have to fork over the dough to buy in the future so that I can watch movies on my HDTV. It seems to […]

For the past week my new little sister Kiddo has been staying with us.
After 24 years of being an only child, it is taking some adjustment. Especially since she tries really hard to make a lot of jokes and be really hyper. So I alternatingly get really mad at her and tell her to shut […]