The Meaning of America

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Today we Honor a truly great man.

For a text of Dr. King’s ” I Have a Dream Speech”, as delivered,   please look at Mark Bennett’s award winning  Blog, “Defending People”.

Mark,  is a good friend and  an outstanding …

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Last week I read Brian Rogers’ glowing article about Judge Joan Campbell & her retirement. Based on the article, for a moment I thought maybe I was reading about a different Judge Joan Campbell then the one …

Friends- I recently saw some statistics regarding Harris County’s court appointment system. The statistics made me ashamed of the Harris County Criminal Justice System. As is often the case here, the system is more criminal than just.I have seen these …

Authors Note: If you are looking for perfect grammar, punctuation, or spelling, you won’t find it here. I agree with Mark Twain. Never trust a Man who spells a word only one way. I ALSO CAPITALIZE WHEN I FEEL LIKE …

I remember Thanksgiving 1964. It started like most of our Thanksgivings. We didnt have a turkey and Pa was back in jail.  It looked like it was going to be another Pot Pie Thanksgiving when  Jimmy,( that’s what we called …