Here is the plan for social security, cut the benefits. Imagine what it will look like when the students get this age.

China is moving to establish their yuan as an alternative currency. The Administration does not seem to understand that it will be foreign investors that decide what we can and cannot do, not our own desires. As the article says this mirrors the decline of the British Pound in the 1920s as well as the…

Charles Band is bringing his horror movie festival to Pat O Brien's in San Antonio this month, this except is from page 7 G of the SA Life Section of the Sunday San Anonio Express News. On the opposite page of this very paper, local columnist Gary Clack notes the lack of humanity in someone…

He was the epitome of continental elegance, charm and grace on film and TV and in the late 40s and early 50s reinvigorated the Valentino/Novarro "Latin Lover" style in Hollywood without achieving top screen stardom. Moreover, unlike most minority actors of his time, he fought to upscale the Latin (particularly, Mexican) image in Hollywood. His…

The New Civil War The Confederacy did not seek to actually overthrow the government of Washington, DC. Rather, the Confederacy wanted out of the arrangement to do as it pleased. Will we  shortly re-visit that old dissatisfaction? Consider three maps please. The first map is the Confederate States. The second map is the states that…

Star Parker sums up just where we are in the govt growth department. She also makes some good points about the lat Sen Kennedy, always a champion of forbidding school choice. Yet his entire family attended private schools! Ms. Parker stops short of posing the interesting question. And it has been on my mind a…

An interesting article about where the jobs are in SA Downtown now has a 20% office vacancy rate. considering the difficulty of navigating the spider web of downtown streets, is anyone surprised?

The SA Sunday Express announces that the City of SA is now studying street cars, ala Portland Oregon. For a mere $100M < we can get started. Yes friend street cars are going to jump start the east and west side economies, really that is what it says.  We take you above to the real…

PIMCO  is the leading bond firm in the world as far as we know. Conservative and well managed. When Bill Gross or the CEO speaks everyone seems to listen. Here is their take in the New Normal. This is the world graduates will be entering, it will not be the go go 1990s. PIMCO’s Secular Outlook:…

Weekly Column from Professor Elam Texas Recedes   You may be of the notion that both Texas and Texans have been relatively unaffected by this recession thing going round the rest of the country. Not so fast. Whether you realize it or not, you probably experienced a real loss in the stock market.  It is…