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Published Brownsville Herald Nov 22, 2010

Halloween has past and Thanksgiving will be here on Thursday and already the red and green colors of Christmas are in the advertisements everywhere.
The advertisements are now taking more space than news in the Sunday paper.
The election results for Congressman and County Judge, here in Cameron County have lasted more than a week. It is strange that a Republican had a chance at all; but just imagine a situation where the final results bounce back and forth for days.
Libertarian Candidate Ed Mishou has accomplished wonders in defining the Libertarian ideals in a way that is better understood in this former Democrat stronghold than ever before. Even though, Republicans kept promoting the idea that “Third parties” can’t win, Ed wrestled more than 5300 votes from the “big two” which more than doubled any past election results.
The political ideals in the Rio Grande Valley continue to mature and “We the people” continue to show that we are not willing to tolerate the “political boss system” any longer.
As further evidence we saw that in the statewide elections, Libertarians continued to gain more acceptance, our own Jim Holder pulled down 147,969 votes in the State Land Commissioner contest. A really fine showing for his first time out!
This guarantees the Libertarians a place as one of the three major parties with a guaranteed place on the ballot in the next election. More »

Published Brownsville Herald Nov 8, 2010

Veterans Day is coming on Thursday November 11. On past Veterans days I found it difficult to do much more than stay home and watch the news reports of politicians preening and taking credit for this or that little benefit they gave us or tried to become one of us and show how brave they were.
This is the first time that I have brought myself to think back and share my thoughts now some forty years later.
Being in War seemed to me to be a contradiction; There was the boredom of waiting for something to happen and the fear of what would happen. During the waiting we bantered back and forth about all the things we would do when the time came then the detached performance of the things we were trained to do, sometimes the impossible was accomplished; still you just did what you had to do, one thing after another. Then start it all over again when the next wave or assignment came. More »