A dollar to me is ten dollars Tom Delay doesn't get
I'm running against freshman Republican Mike McCaul in a Texas District engineered by Tom Delay just for him. He has repaid Delay by voting with him 97% of the time. He supported the rules changes...
View ArticleMy War Story
One morning during my third tour in Vietnam, a young Seabee came to me (I was his Company Commander)and told me he had just gotten a letter from home and he was the father of a new son. He asked me if...
View ArticleA Military Option for Iran
It turns out that Iran is everything that Iraq was supposed to be, but was not. The President says Diplomacy is his first course for Iran, where it was not for Iraq. Wrong again. China and Russia...
View ArticleJames Hansen Redux
I ran a Diary entry on James Hansen, NASA's hero of Global Warming Warning back on Dec 5, entitled "Global Warming Causes new Ice Age". I recommend it to Kossacks who missed it the first time, given...
View ArticleTX 10/Ted Ankrum Pre-Primary Update
Today is the last day for early voting in the Texas Primaries, with the election date next Tuesday. I have just received the Endorsement of the Houston Chronicle, to go with that of the Austin-American...
View ArticleFighting Dem Ted Ankrum TX 10 Runoff Starts Today
I won the four-way primary, but not by 50%+1, so I am in a runoff. I am the last Fighting Dem left, that was in an opposed primary in Texas. During the primary campaign, I concentrated on the...
View ArticleWhen RummyWorld Went South
I've just won my Democratic Primary runoff election in Texas CD 10 by 71%. I do not for a minute confuse this result with November. I am the underdog, but I'll mention something later that happened...
View ArticleFIRST TEXAS CANDIDATE TO USE A HYBRID
Ted Ankrum, the Democratic Party nominee for US Congressional District 10 in Texas, has just celebrated Earth Day on April 22 by placing a Honda Civic Hybrid in service as his campaign vehicle. This...
View ArticleKarl Rove Shows His Genius, Again
I think Karl Rove has done it again! We were all taking comfort that there weren't any big wedge issues to mobilize the Conservative base, and now Karl has given them one: AMNESTY. And I think he has...
View ArticleEnergize America-A Candidate Acceptance
I have followed the development, on Daily Kos, of a comprehensive energy plan called Energize America--An Energy Plan for America's Future, or EA 2020, for short. I am the Democratic Candidate for TX...
View ArticleCut and Run--Bring it on!
So Karl Rove celebrated his "release" from the Plame investigation by declaring that Republicans will win the mid-term elections by telling everyone that Democrats want to "Cut and Run". I'm the...
View ArticleTed Ankrum says "We Won", and on Extremists
I'll be campaigning tomorrow in my Distrct which runs from the Houston suburbs to the Austin suburbs (TX 10), so I thought I'd post my Independence Day message today, the 3rd of July. When President...
View ArticleGolda Meir Had it Right on Terrorism
As the Democratic Party nominee for Texas' Tenth Congressional District, I have been searching for a simple, unifying theme to the individual actions that I believe should be the US response to Islamic...
View ArticleIt's Not the Oil
When I have been campaigning in Texas' Tenth District and delineate my position for getting our troops out of Iraq, I am frequently asked if I thought that we invaded Iraq because of the oil. No, I...
View ArticleGood News and Bad News in TX 10
There is good news and Bad news in TX 10, where I am the Democrat running against one-term Republican Mike McCaul, son-in-law of the owner of Clear Channel Communications, Tom Delay clone, and a net...
View ArticleANOTHER INCONVIENENT TRUTH-$6 GAS
I think Hugo Chavez is going to run the price of gasoline in the US up to $6 a gallon, next year. Oil is not a completely fungible commodity. Refineries are optimized for a particular grade of oil,...
View ArticleAttack Ad, Bush, Cheney, McCaul/TX-10
I am Ted Ankrum, the Democratic Party candidate in TX-10. I have just started running an attack ad featuring the Iraq war and my opponents support for it on Fox Cable News in Austin, today, and in NW...
View ArticleFinal Diary-Ted Ankrum, TX-10
I lost, but I was one of only two Texas challenger Dems to break into the 40's, and held my opponent to the lowest victory margin in Texas. But, I'm still happy.
View ArticleTed Ankrum is back in TX-10
I didn't expect this, but when our expected Democratic candidate in TX-10, Jack McDonald,dropped out one week before the filing deadline (ala Bayh), we were left in the lurch. Both Larry Joe Doherty...
View ArticleObama is half-right on NASA
As a former Special Assistant to the first Astronaut to be Head of NASA, and part of the post-Challenger fixit team, I've been very interested in the President's announced plans for NASA. I am also...
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