by Brian Phillips In her essay “What Can One Do?” Ayn Rand writes: Speak on any scale open to you, large or small–to your friends, your associates, your professional organizations, or any legitimate public forum. You can never tell when your words will reach the right mind at the right time. HOS member Joe Reed…
In Houston on Friday, July 18th, a congressional hearing took place on a bill that would dramatically change health care as we know it in the United States for every single citizen, yet Saturday’s edition of the Houston Chronicle didn’t even mention the fact that this hearing took place. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, along with…
The Health Museum on Herman drive was the scene Friday afternoon of a contemptible sham “hearing” of John Conyers’ Judiciary committee. It was run as a well staged play by that consummate director Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. All of the actors (witnesses) began with fawning adoration for Ms. Lee and Mr. Conyers. Most were groveling…
by Janet Westphal Report by the HOS president on the healthcare meeting held by Houston Representative Sheila Jackson Lee and Michigan Representative John Conyers, Jr. Besides myself, three other members showed up to the healthcare meeting on Friday, July 18th (which actually was a Congressional Hearing). I had planned my son’s feedings around the meeting,…
The following letter was written by an HOS member and published in the Houston Chronicle. One editorial and another article by Paul Krugman appeared in Friday’s paper lamenting the fact that the federal and state government don’t provide health care to everyone who needs it. Both of these pieces assume that if citizens need something,…
by Brian Phillips On April 14 I appeared on a panel to discuss the proposed Ashby High Rise. The event was hosted by the Baker Institute Student Forum at Rice. The other members of the panel were: Jim Reeder, the President of the Southampton Civic Club (the neighborhood nearest the proposed project) Mike Snyder, a…
The following was submitted to the Houston Chronicle by Brian Phillips. It was not published. Recent events, such as the release of Stephen Klineberg’s newest survey and the controversy over the Ashby High Rise, have provoked a renewed discussion over land use restrictions in Houston. While such discussions are important, they are meaningless unless they…
by Brian Phillips In mid-2005 the Maddox Foundation of Hobbs, New Mexico, proposed to give the city a $15 million grant to “beautify” the city. The grant contract included a stipulation that the city adopt land use controls that met with the approval of the Foundation. Several months later, I was contacted by a businessman…
by Warren Ross The just-published book Bias, by Bernard Goldberg, meticulously documents what everyone outside the media and the Left establishment knows – that news coverage has a left-wing bias. Even more, this book makes clear the critical role the news media play in our lives, and the life-threatening default on responsibility the media is…