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Published Brownsville Herald March 22, 2009

On last Friday the 13^th of March, the Fox News Channel and commentator Glen Beck launched what could only be called a political support group, The912Project. The supporting Web site “The912Project.com” was overwhelmed from the giant deluge of supporters and had to be rescued by mirror Web sites for some time. I was only able to log on without trouble on Sunday.

I had noted the promotion but didn’t think the response would be that big a deal.

Mr. Beck is a conservative idealist that claims to be Libertarian in thought.

He claims the movement is in response to a failure of the government to adhere to the traditional constitutional principals and that much of the populace was loosing the ideals that have made our country great. More »

Published Brownsville Herald  -  March 8, 2009

On Tuesday, March 7, Texas celebrated the adoption of the Declaration of Independence at the Convention of 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 2, 1836.

The basis for this revolution and cry for independence was similar to that of the United States and memorialized in part by excerpts from that declaration that passionately state that Texans felt most important that Mexico:

‘has failed and refused to secure, on a firm basis, the right of trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty, and only safe guarantee for the life, liberty, and property of the citizen.’

‘has failed to establish any public system of education’

‘denies us the right of worshipping the Almighty according to the dictates of our own conscience, by the support of a national religion, calculated to promote the temporal interest of its human functionaries, rather than the glory of the true and living God’

‘has demanded us to deliver up our arms, which are essential to our defence, the rightful property of freemen, and formidable only to tyrannical governments’

I was surprised to find little mention in the media in remembrance of the ideals of freedom and liberty that provide the opportunities for us all. No where is there a promise of great success, just a guarantee of the opportunity to pursue them.  That was enough for those brave men at the Alamo and San Jacinto to give up their lives. That is still enough for our sons and daughters to do the same today but unfortunately we don’t remember what we have won and how we secured it. More »