According to the A.D. 1992 edition of O’Connor’s Texas Rules Civil Trial, Texas courts recognized kinds of hearings: 1) evidentiary; and 2) argument. Neither kind of hearing was favored over the other. However, according to the A.D. 2005 edition of O’Connor’s same book, those two kinds of hearings are still recognized, but “evidentiary hearings are [...]
Entries from May 2009
May 12, 2009
Riding the Debt Tiger
I’m a long ways from being the first to observe that the total American debt has grown to dangerous proportions. But I may have been the first (July A.D. 2008) to note that the total American debt has now grown so great that it can’t ever be repaid and therefore won’t be repaid. (“What can’t [...]
May 5, 2009
Owing It To Ourselves?
An A.D. 2006 article entitled “The Lost Decade—Per Capita Net Worth and Living Standards,” declared in part that “as citizens of the U.S. we own the national debt.”
Technically, that’s correct. Whee duh pee-pul do “own” the National Debt. But 40 years ago, when gov-co was first going hugely into debt, it was borrowing from the [...]
