Archives from “February 2007”.

  1. The Abortion Debate and Cameron's Titanic
    February 28th, 2007 - By Chad A. B. Wilson
    I finished reading the Time magazine article I referenced in my last column here, and I have decided that using that article as a prompt was way off. I stand by my...
  2. That Darn Liberal Bias!
    February 24th, 2007 - By Chad A. B. Wilson
    This week's Time magazine has a cover story about crisis pregnancy centers. I have not yet read the entire article, but the little I did read sounded pretty negative....
  3. Academy Politics, Part I: Why Movies are More Important than Politics
    February 19th, 2007 - By Chad A. B. Wilson
    I'm talking about the academy, of course, as in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. That's right, Oscar night is coming up, so I have to discuss film...
  4. The True Cost of a $100 Billion
    February 19th, 2007 - By Chad A. B. Wilson
    What can be done with $100 billion? I can honestly answer that I have no idea, for I cannot conceive that much money. It's just beyond me. If I work for 30 years making...
  5. The Not-so-Power of the Blog
    February 16th, 2007 - By Chad A. B. Wilson
    It sounds like I'm writing about my own power, but don't worry: I have no illusions about my popularity in the blogosphere. What I'm talking about is my colleagues'...
  6. Barack Obama IS NOT Muslim! (or at least probably isn't...)
    February 14th, 2007 - By Chad A. B. Wilson
    Remember that poll I cited in one of my previous columns? The poll that said that 45% of respondents would not vote for a Muslim even if they agree with everything that...
  7. A Confession: Why I Love Mayor Bill White
    February 14th, 2007 - By Chad A. B. Wilson
    I have written about Houston before--see my "Ode to Irony" about the Houston Ship Channel--but I have tried to make my column more about national and international...
  8. Proof that the Pentagon Pushed Pompous Polity to Pugnacity? AND Pelosi's Plane Provokes Peevish Passions
    February 9th, 2007 - By Chad A. B. Wilson
    Sorry about the alliteration there. Sometimes I get caught up in it and just can't stop. My apologies. But don't expect me to stop doing it. It's just too much fun! I...
  9. Mormon Mitt Romney's Presidential Problems
    February 8th, 2007 - By Chad A. B. Wilson
    Mitt Romney doesn't have a chance. Not if the polls concerning religion in politics are correct. He ought to go ahead and drop out now. Romney is the former...
  10. Media Campaigns and Bringing the Troops Home
    February 7th, 2007 - By Chad A. B. Wilson
    I was driving around Houston today, trying to go to Taco Cabana for lunch, when I almost ran off the road because of a billboard. This hasn't happened for a long time,...
  11. Obama, Taxes, and Deadly SUVs
    February 2nd, 2007 - By Chad A. B. Wilson
    I'm going to do something different today. Instead of sticking to one subject, I will divide this column into responses to three different issues. I know, I rarely...
  12. Income Inequality and Me, Or My Life as CEO
    February 1st, 2007 - By Chad A. B. Wilson
    Income inequality is something that us middle class folks think about a lot. It's like this: It Must Be Nice I remember a few years ago when a friend told me and...