Welcome To Texas Liberal
Texas Liberal is a blog of politics and political history.
My name is Neil Aquino. Here is my profile.
I can be reached at naa618@att.net.
Additional focuses of the blog are books, art, poetry, personal relationships and, also, sea life and marine mammals.
( The picture above is of the Houston Ship Channel. A narrow channel can lead to a wide sea.)
The signature post of this blog is the Martin Luther King Reading & Reference List. This list is the best of it’s kind on the web.
Another good post is my reciting the words to the Shaker hymn Simple Gifts on Galveston Island, Texas as a ship passes behind.
I live in Houston, Texas and I do sometimes write about political issues in Houston and in Texas.
I also often write about my former hometown of Cincinnati, and about the great beach city of Galveston, Texas.
I define liberalism as a role for government in the economy to help make life more fair, and a broad acceptance of people regardless of who they are.
This is why it says “All People Matter” at the top of the blog.
A blog grows one reader at a time. If you like what you read here, please consider forwarding the link.
Texas Liberal began regular posting on July 25, 2006.
I also blog at the Houston Chronicle as one of eight featured political bloggers, and on Where’s The Outrage? which posts out of North Carolina.
Thanks for reading Texas Liberal.
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pretty ironic that perry is now asking for federal dollars to help with the swine flu problem.
Yep.
To Rick Perry Governor, I have a son in a state prisonthat is about to be release. My guestion is why the person is given such terrible atire to wear home? They have serve there tme in a terrible place for the crime the were convected& there is such a thing a convicted & not guility,but because everyone does not have the money for a hight price lawler he is at the hands of the courts serves his time & then treated as a inhuman.I never thought I would every see this treatment in our great stste of TEXAS
You wrote: “It seems clear that the main loyalties of the American right are concentrated on anger and grievance and not directed towards our nation and its people”
You need to open your eyes – just as the Fundie Christian Right should have during the last 8 years. LISTEN for once.
People mocked Joe the Plumber. The liberals and their press sector trashed a man for asking a question that many business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs ask every election, every tax season, every day. I wish he would end his 15 minutes of fame for god’s sake – because he is not a geopolitical genius – but most Americans are not. He did not deserve the personal attacks mounted by every layer of the DNC.
Most of us don’t live or die by a republican or democrat tag. Most of us work long hours, raise kids, take care of aging parents, wayward kin and neighbors, try to enjoy what little is left after it all and hold on to our dignity. One does not have to be on the right to be dismayed at the direction in which this administration is determined to drag this nation. You ask a question – you are destroyed – as a fraud, a racist, a moron, a crackhead – ANYTHING to shut you up. Damn it – the majority of this country has said – repeatedly – they do NOT want universal health care, they do NOT want the government running any more of our economy than they already are – yet has stood before his groupies and promised to **fight** them all. He bemoans the insolvency of an existing govt health program as justification to create more? Joe Wilson calls him out for his LIES about illegal immigrants which then results in Obama calling to use SAVE to prevent illegals from receiving the benefits (democrats had voted this republican amendment at least twice previously) But then Obama immediately makes another speech about granting amnesty to all the illegals who are here. You don’t have to be a republican to recognize your chain has been yanked at this point.
Disloyal traitors as ever. To keep their slaves, Texans rebelled against Mexico. Shortly thereafter they asked to join the United States. 13 years later they rebelled against the United States. And so it goes.
It does seem to go on and on.