Archive for December, 2010

Author Tex Norton There is an email being circulated entitled “NO FIGHT, NOBAMA VII – “PLUTONOMY,” ANYONE?” purporting to represent comments by one Connie Simo, entrepreneur and chemist of New York City. Connie, in turn, references Bill Moyers and his last interview prior to his retirement. According to Connie, “Plutocratic societies aren’t sustainable and Democracy [...]

Author Linda Brady Traynham Well…I didn’t. I had been soldiering on gallantly for weeks, feeling worse with every day, when my daughter came for Thanksgiving and coaxed me into going back to Dallas with her for three days Sunday. How shall I put this? My beautiful, highly intelligent, successful daughter is both an immovable object [...]

Author Mike Rough Dear Friends, We at the Texas Ring would like to thank you for your continued subscription and readership to our little bastion of sanity. Since it’s inception a little over a year ago we have published over 130 articles, received thousands of comments and enjoyed every word of encouragement, criticism, and advice [...]

Author Tex Norton You will note with more and more regularity that the folks who blow whistles tend to become the victims rather than the heroes. Latest case in point involves one Julian Assange. Half the talking heads want him shot and the other half want him hung. No less than Bill O’Reilly have called [...]

Author Mike Rough There are few instances in life where you get the perfect pitch to hit and know it’s coming. What makes it even sweeter is when you pitch it to yourself. Today the White House Larry Summers stated “If they don’t pass this bill in the next couple weeks it will materially increase [...]

Author Kurt I read one of the comments these last few days that has been nagging at me. The person leaving the comment asked with everybody in an uproar, and everybody getting all ticked off about what is going on, why are we not rising up and putting an end to the shenanigans of the [...]

Author Tex Norton And you thought you’d seen everything. Silly you! There’s so much more the bureaucrats can conjure up to cause your head to spin. Talk about fighting the last war. Admit it: Don’t you now just feel so much safer? Surely some of you, at least, have wondered how such stupidity can persist; [...]