Last night I spent some time at TCC NE campus speaking with students from their evening government classes. Was reunited with Doris Jones who taught there when I taught there back in the 90s. Several Libertarian Party candidates there including Ken Stanford who is running against Ron Wright for Tarrant County Tax Assessor Collector. For those of you voting straight democratic ticket, I recommend you go back into your ballot and vote for Ken. There is no Democratic challenger and Ron Wright used to be Joe Barton's Chief of Staff. Nuff said! He also used to write godawful columns for the Star Telegram.

Kay Granger as committee chair of the subcommittee on state and foreign operations apparently has the power all by her self to block foreign aid. She put a hold on $450 million that was supposed to go to Egypt as economic aid. She said that she "was not convinced of the urgent need for this assistance." I do not disagree with her decision, but I am concerned that she has the power to stop foreign aid by herself with out consultation with her committee. If she had committee consultation, the Star-Telegram made no mention of it. I think that she is right, that perhaps Egypt may not be our friend right now.