Taryn Guerrero Davis, my vote for "Texan of the Year"

Every year, The Dallas Morning News nominates several people for "Texan of the Year".  They usually nominate some great Texans, such as Nolan Ryan who has turned the Texas Rangers into a winning baseball organization. 

In recent years, they've nominated Laura Bush, our wonderful First Lady who did so much to fight for the rights of women in Afghanistan and that region.
 
Over the last few days, they've been presenting their 2011 nominations.  They are all great Texans who've done this or that.

My choice for 2011 is Taryn Guerrero Davis, an amazing young woman who can teach all of us a lesson or two about life.

Her story is absolutely great:

"A wife at 20, Davis was now a widow at 21, alone and struggling with the death of her husband and high school sweetheart, Michael, an Army corporal killed by roadside bombs in Iraq in 2007.   It happened barely 90 minutes after she had exchanged instant messages with him."

She is 25 today and an advocate for war widows and families:

"American Widow Project, a national support group for spouses of soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. The group has connected with more than 900 widows and has hosted 16 events around the country, including nine in 2011."

A few years ago, she was a 20 year old young bride looking forward to a happy life with Michael, her high school sweetheart and new husband.

She lost him in Iraq.  She was naturally devastated but turned her loss into an amazing story of helping other widows.

Taryn is my Texan of the Year.  It's hard to think of another person who has done more to make Texas a better place to live:

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What is Pres BO waiting for to ask AG Holder to leave?

By any executive standard, AG Holder has to go.

If he did not know then that's executive incompetence of unprecedented proportions.

If he did know then he could be guilty of perjury or lying to Congress.

It is a very bad situation no matter how you look at it.

As of today, many congressmen have called for AG Holder's resignation.  Unfortunately, we do not have a single Dem, a rather amazing fact considering that we are talking about putting 2,000 guns across an international border.

Jeffrey T. Kuhner calls it "Obama's Watergate":

"Mr. Holder is a shameless careerist and a ruthless Beltway operative. For years, his out-of-control Justice Department has violated the fundamental principle of our democracy, the rule of law.

He has refused to prosecute members of the New Black Panthers for blatant voter intimidation that took place in the 2008 election.

Career Justice lawyers have confessed publicly that Mr. Holder will not pursue cases in which the perpetrators are black and the victims white. States such as Arizona and Alabama are being sued for simply attempting to enforce federal immigration laws.

Mr. Holder also opposes voter identification cards, thereby enabling fraud and vote-stealing at the ballot box. What else can we expect from one who, during the Clinton administration, helped pardon notorious tax cheat Marc Rich and Puerto Rican terrorists?

Mr. Holder clearly knew about Fast and Furious and did nothing to stop it. This is because the administration wanted to use the excuse of increased violence on the border and weapons-smuggling into Mexico to justify tighter gun-control legislation.

Mr. Holder is fighting ferociously to prevent important internal Justice documents from falling into the hands of congressional investigators. If the full nature of his involvement is discovered, the Obama presidency will be in peril.

Fast and Furious is even worse than Watergate for one simple reason: No one died because of President Nixon’s political dirty tricks and abuse of government power.

But Brian Terry is dead; and there are still 1,500 missing guns threatening still more lives."

Again, how much longer can this corrupt or incompetent man (or both) keep his job?  What is Pres BO waiting for?  Or is Pres BO afraid to dismiss Holder because he is a favorite of the Dem's left wing?

P.S. We spoke with John M Ackerman from Mexico City about this and other issues:

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US-Mexico relations at the end of 2011 and beyond!

We spoke with John Ackerman about his new article regarding US-Mexico relations. 

John is calling for something big, perhaps a Marshall Plan:

"The only way out is for the United States to invest in the future of North America by launching an aggressive economic investment and reconstruction program for Mexico, similar to the Marshall Plan in post-war Europe.

Real per capita income growth has been almost nonexistent over the past three decades in Mexico. 

The recent global financial crisis has taken a heavy toll on the country, with the economy losing 6.1 percent of its GDP during 2009 alone.

This has led to the creation of a vast reserve army of unemployed youth who are easy prey for the drug cartels."

John has put forward an ambitious plan but he has the right idea.

Click here for our conversation with John Ackerman:

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