NEW REPUBLICAN TAX LAW FAILING, GREATER DEFICITS THAN EVER

THE NEW TAX LAW IS NOT DOING WHAT REPUBLICANS PROMISED, BUT INSTEAD IS RAISING BUDGET DEFICITS AND COSTING OUR NATION AND MOST AMERICANS MORE.

In fact, the new tax law has not created a budget surplus, it has only given financial gifts to big business and cut tax deductions, penalizing Americans and causing losses for most of them. 

So even though the White House brags about a growing economy, the deficit spending in the USA grows and grows.  A question that most Americans are asking:…

Texas Lyceum, one of the most influential organizations in Texas

May 3, 2019, marked the 40th anniversary celebration of the founding of Texas Lyceum. It was in 1980 that Texas Business Magazine published an article about the Rising Stars of Texas. The magazine had been running articles exploring concepts of encouraging and developing enlightened leadership...

Republican Sheriff on Texas Border says, "TO HELL WITH TRUMP WALL"

Politics in Texas, especially in rural Texas, are conservative -- very conservative. So when people like the Republican Sheriff who has to patrol the border, speaks out it reflects a broader opinion. He is in charge of a part of the southern border of Texas where Trump's wall is routed to go. He says, "To hell with the wall right now." I for one do not ignore local area sheriffs...

Today, Tuesday Nov 6, 2018. VOTE

VOTE TODAY This day, we have the privilege to vote...not as a Democrat or Republican, but as Americans. Be American, and voice your vote. I was number 1 in the line to vote in my neighborhood. Fun time, fun group of patriots. Be patriotic, VOTE! Ben Boothe, Sr. PS...

A Free Press is the Best Friend the American People Have

We join 350 newspapers in America in stating, "The free press of America is not the enemy." A look at the world indicates that only 13 percent of the world's population, ONLY 13 percent of people, enjoy a free press. Basic to America are "Freedom of the Press" and "Freedom of Speech...

Montesquieu defined separation of powers in democratic government (throwing out tyranny)

MONTESQUIEU (1689-1755) also known as Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brede et de Montesquieu, was a man of letters, a judge, and a political philosopher in France. Montesquieu was an important voice in defining a philosophy of SEPARATION OF POWERS. His philosophy is important to the United States of America today...

Early NRA LEADERSHIP BELIEVED IN GUN CONTROL

The early NRA believed in gun control as a matter of public safety. “I do not believe in the general promiscuous toting of guns," then-NRA President Karl T. Frederick told members of the House Ways and Means Committee, when they were considering passing the National Firearms Act in 1934. "I think it should be sharply restricted and only under licenses...

Whatever Happened to the Socratic Process in America?

It seems that political discourse has devolved to people yelling at one another. The louder and more emotional the voice, the more it seems that "that voice" has won. People speak, but they do not listen. They do not interact. They react. Imagine if you can two men, both Adolf Hitler, in a room yelling at one another. That seems to be what we have today in our political discourse...

Real Gun Violence Reduction by Ben Boothe Jr., Attorney

REAL GUN VIOLENCE REDUCTION By: Ben B. Boothe Jr, Attorney At Law, Ft. Worth, Texas Trump said today he was going to get bump stocks banned. Well that is good. But it is a little like telling the widow of a drunk-driving victim that we are going to lower the speed limit. Of course we should have reasonable speed limits, just as obviously as we should ban bump stocks...

KIDS: YOUR COUNTRY LOVES GUNS MORE THAN YOUR SAFETY

The CNN article by Doug Criss said it well! "Not again ." The fourth school shooting this year, in the "safest city in Florida." Another article in the New York Times said, "These kids lived in a nation that didn't love them enough to protect them...

New Tax Law Would Kill Tax Exempt Municipal Bonds, Killing Thousands of Jobs and Economic Development Projects

H.J. Sims knows, because he has financed economic development projects throughout the nation. Municipal Bonds were created as tax-free interest investments to encourage local towns and counties -- public entities -- to be able to finance and find investors to make their convention centers, libraries, hospitals, airports, prisons and schools, possible, because there are investors for tax exempt securities...