Obama & Noriega Seem More Organic Than Sanchez & Kirk In 2002
On Texas Primary Day, March 4, I’ll be voting for Barack Obama for President and Rick Noriega for the U.S. Senate. ( Please click here for a Texas Liberal History of the Texas Primary.) Mr. Obama is...
View ArticleMeasures & Philosophies Of Progress In Houston
A contentious urban planning issue in Houston in recent months has been the so-called Ashby High Rise. Houston has no zoning codes. You can build pretty much what you want where you want. Sleazy...
View ArticlePicture Of Sign Equating Ron Paul With Martin Luther King
I’ve been meaning to run this photo for some time. I took it at the 2008 Houston Martin Luther King Parade. The sign, as you can see, equates Martin Luther King with Ron Paul. Sometimes you just...
View ArticleFight Over Design Of Martin Luther King Statue
Above is a picture of the planned Martin Luther King statue for the Martin Luther King National Memorial on the Mall in Washington. (Here is my Martin Luther King Reading & Reference List. It is...
View ArticleNew Martin Luther King Book
I bought a new Martin Luther King book last week. It’s called From Civil Rights To Human Rights–Martin Luther King And The Struggle For Economic Justice. It was written by Thomas Jackson who is an...
View ArticleTop Texas Political Blogger Photographed With Fruit, Dolls & Books
Here is a Texas Liberal exclusive. That’s me—the leading political blogger in Texas and in all America—holding a fruit salad I made this evening. I wish I could make a giant fruit salad for all my...
View ArticleTune Out M.L. King’s Kids—Focus On His Great Life
This won’t surprise you—Martin Luther King’s three surviving children are fighting for money instead of for justice. This time the issue is a biography of the late Coretta Scott King. From the New...
View ArticleWe Are Seeing The Mountaintop
Here is what Martin Luther King said regarding mountains in his I Have A Dream speech in 1963– “This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with a new meaning, “My country,...
View ArticleMartin Luther King Reading & Reference List—Updated For 2009
(1/14/2010—This list has been updated for 2010.) This is the second edition of the Martin Luther King Reading & Reference List. There are three additions for 2009. While it is always instructive...
View ArticleIs It Best That Chamillionaire Will Be A Grand Marshal Of Houston MLK Parade?
The rap star Chamillionaire will be a co-Grand Marshal of the 2009 Martin Luther King Day Parade in Houston. Above you see a picture of Mr. Chamillionaire. He is from Houston. This parade will be...
View ArticleOne Way To Get Rid Of A Hooters
One way to get rid of a Hooters is to have a hurricane come and blow it away. This is what happened in Galveston, Texas with Hurricane Ike. I got this picture from Wikipedia. I wish I had taken the...
View ArticleBarack Obama Is Not Martin Luther King
I’m glad Barack Obama will be sworn in as our President tomorrow. However, today, Martin Luther King Day, we should recall that Barack Obama is not Martin Luther King. Martin Luther King was a radical...
View ArticleListening To Joy Division While I Blog Makes My Posts More Angry
Sometimes I listen to music while I blog. Mostly I listen to stuff that is not much more than background music and offers little distraction. But sometimes I listen to a Joy Division (picture above)...
View ArticleReading Malcolm X In An Old Black Cemetery
The new video on the blog is called Reading Malcolm X In An Old Black Cemetery. It runs just over two minutes and 30 seconds. I filmed this in Houston’s College Memorial Park Cemetery. This...
View ArticleToday’s Conservatives Falsely Claiming Boston Tea Party Legacy
Far-right activists are staging so-called “tea parties” on April 15 to protest the fact that in a free society one must pay taxes and abide by the decisions of the electorate. (Old-time image of tea...
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