Here it is March 1st, and the Texas Workforce Commission still has not released the unemployment figures for January. TWC usually releases its unemployment report around the third week of the month following the month it is reporting on. The reason for t… more »

Long before utility deregulation became a conservative craze, the City of Lubbock had two electrical-utility companies competing for business. That changed recently when Xcel Energy sold off most of its electrical grid within the Lubbock city limits to c… more »

As the 2010 political races heat up on the Texas South Plains, we are once again presented with the spectacle of conservative hypocrisy. It's a battle between candidates who on the one hand decry big government and deficit spending, while on the other ha… more »

The History Channel (now simply called "History"-- ha, ha) is history. Killed off by cheaply-produced reality shows pandering to what is apparently a growing audience of 18- to 35-year-olds suffering from ADD. You can add it to a long list of cable netwo… more »

Remember back when Republicans were slamming American auto workers and blaming them for problems caused largely by management? Conservatives seldom acknowledge the economic concessions UAW workers made during the 1970s, when another major crisis not of t… more »

With all the i-hype these days about Apple products, the Mac computer is still inferior to the PC when it comes to playing the various video formats available on the internet. I can download the K-Lite Codec Package for Windows Media Player and it allows… more »

Nobel laureate economist and editorialist Paul Krugman wrote this on December 28, 2008: No modern American president would repeat the fiscal mistake of 1932, in which the federal government [under president Herbert Hoover] tried to balance its budget… more »

While the U.S.-led rescue and relief operation for Haiti has had its shortcomings (some of which I have commented on in this blog), that doesn't mean that any other country in the world was able to do any better. Brazil has been critical of the way the U… more »

In its latest defense of totalitarian censorship, the Chinese dictatorship claimed that it's protecting China from "information imperialism." This grand prouncement came from the thug regime in Beijing on the heels of Google's announcement earlier this w… more »

The Texas Workforce Commission reported today that the Texas seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose to 8.3 percent in December, up from 8 percent the previous month. Statewide, the total labor force shrank by over 20,000 as more unemployed workers si… more »