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As you know, Texas is embroiled in a contentious battle regarding redistricting with numerous Congressional, State Senate and State House districts at stake.

The spectacle of some in the media buying hook, line and sinker into a fictitious scandal in the Harris County DA’s office is laughable if they were not taking themselves so seriously.

With the primary election date uncertain at best, TCR detects that GOP primary enthusiasm is not currently present.

For those who thought that by the South Carolina primary we’d know who the GOP nominee would be is mistaken.

As we start 2012, we have everything before us, or maybe nothing. President Obama is beatable, but if we do not work hard and smart, we could lose.

At TCR, we do not have a problem with incumbents being challenged in a primary as long as the 11th Commandment is followed, so whomever wins the primary is not left mortally wounded for the fall election.

With the onset of the 2012 primary filing, it is good to remember that Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment – “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican” – still makes sense.

It is clear by the recent decision to hold up (we’ve been waiting three years) until next year the approval of a pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast, which would increase safe oil resources and increase jobs, that President Obama is not serious about energy independence, disentangling us from unstable Middle Eastern oil and expanding U.S. employment.

With an appalling 8.79% turnout, Houston voted in the 2011 City Election. Conservative pundits like Paul Bettencourt lament the lost opportunities in a 60% Democratic city.

As a longtime resident, your editor is saddened by the decline of the Houston Chronicle. A once proud newspaper has declined so much over recent years with the loss of journalistic talent and a decline in reporter’s ethics.