Issues

No surprise here, we learn from an early age that if you are weak in the face of bullying, you get more of it, not less.

As a working trial lawyer with decades of experience, your Editor understands our judicial system.

TCR has observed over the past year or so, the rise of the woke-twitter mob and its insistence on halting “unapproved” free speech.

We are back again this week because there are so many things to comment on, so let’s go.

Maybe it’s your editor, but observing things happening to us over the last few months it seems we are in real trouble. Not just locally and statewide, but in our country.

You know ultra-leftist Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo is having a bad week when her close friends on the Houston Chronicle editorial board gently called her out for an $11 million COVID contract it looks like she arranged for a Democratic political operative that once worked for Precinct 2 Commissioner Adrian Garcia.

Let’s be clear, it is not Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris’ fault that we spent 20 years in Afghanistan and spent, or will spend with interest on the debt included, $6.5 trillion by 2050!

The Covid-Delta variant is here and we have an increase in hospitalizations and positive tests.

After suffering with runaway crime rates including the explosive growth of murder and aggravated robbery, the architects of the jail break (aka bond reform), of the emasculating of the DA’s office by refusing to support significant new prosecutors and the virtual closing of the courthouse for almost a year, recognize we have a huge problem.

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