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Letter to the Editor
Letter to the Editor
The words of America’s greatest president came to mind when I read the tiresome Letter to the Editor last week: “Better to be thought a fool by being silent than to remove all doubt by speaking [writing].” If I had very little understanding of 14th century Chinese society (I have none.), it would be foolish to presume in writing that what I wrote about it would be taken seriously. The Letter in question is just such an example - too full of vague and erroneous “facts” that make Kamala Harris’s word-salad nonsense seem clear. 12/19/2024 08:21 AM
Holiday traditions
Holiday traditions
One of my favorite stories is “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens. How many other tales feature a miser, four ghosts, tombstones, and a goose? Actually, before I read this story I thought it was about somebody named Carol. 12/19/2024 08:21 AM
Agency seeks $300 million to bolster Medicaid
Agency seeks $300 million to bolster Medicaid
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is seeking a $300 million transfusion of funds to bolster the state’s Medicaid application process, The Texas Tribune reported. The public health insurance program provides coverage for people or families with limited income, as well as pregnant women and people with disabilities. 12/19/2024 08:21 AM
Scalded dog or best of life?
Scalded dog or best of life?
To paraphrase an old movie, the United States is no country for old men. However, the entire population is ageing, and we want to make sure no immigrants come into the country, yet we expect someone to make life for us as smooth as banana pudding. We forget what a privilege it is to grow old. The aches, pains, and bruises, physical and otherwise: those checks eventually come due for us all. The question is are we going to approach it like a scalded dog or like Robert Browning told his future wife, “come and grow old with me as the best of life is yet to be” We also have now generations of young people raised on Iphones and social feeds that tell you how gloomy it is outside so don’t bother to go check for yourself. They think old people can’t possibly know anything as the computer knows all. I remember when I was a kid and men at the Cotton Gin store talked about debt and the depression. Later I recalled bankers in the years after 2001 saying they didn’t need to be regulated because the balanced derivative market was self regulating. After 2007, they blew up the world and the federal reserve had to print dollars by the trillions to avoid a collapse that would have taken us back to the stone age. 12/19/2024 08:21 AM
Letter to the Editor
Letter to the Editor
Trump following ‘the law?’ Incoming President Donald Trump is facing a problem that nobody could have ever imagined … unless they’ve listened to Donald Trump and his supporters these last ten years. Seems Trump is expecting everyone to follow “THE LAW.” He wants people nationwide to do exactly as he says, when, for example, it comes to how he wants to pursue “illegals.” It gets a little murky when an “immigrant” is instead someone who has applied for asylum status, because asylum procedures are ALSO “the law.” “The law” comes into play when discussing things like “state’s rights,” and whether a locality is bound to aid the Federal Government in its every so-called “law enforcement” effort. 12/12/2024 08:55 PM
Who is the sucker?
Who is the sucker?
I read a story recently about a lady school teacher in Yazoo City, Miss., in the impoverished Delta country that is teaching unprivileged kids and there is not enough money to even pay her a salary. Yet kids that would fall through the crack of life are staying in school and making plans for the future. When asked about financial strain she faces, she uttered a phrase that applies to all of us: “What I don’t get in this life, I will get in the next.” 12/12/2024 08:55 PM
Jesus is the reason for the season
Jesus is the reason for the season
It is very busy this time of the year. We enjoyed the Teague Christmas parade on Thursday and the Fairfield Christmas parade on Saturday. 12/12/2024 08:55 PM
Phelan drops bid for House speaker; no clear winner yet
Phelan drops bid for House speaker; no clear winner yet
House Speaker Dade Phelan withdrew last week from seeking another term leading that chamber. After three rounds of voting on Saturday, state Rep. David Cook, R-Mansfield emerged as the preference of most House Republicans. However, his opponent, state Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, claims to have enough support from both Republicans and Democrats to clear the 76-vote threshold. 12/12/2024 08:55 PM
Not a lot of time
Not a lot of time
OBSERVANCES Well, the election is over and one group is dancing in the streets while another group is drowning themselves in despair. This is the first time in my memory that one party has control of the four branches of government: executive, senate, house and supreme court. 11/21/2024 09:10 PM
More than 1,500 bills filed as session approaches
More than 1,500 bills filed as session approaches
CAPITOL HIGHLIGHTS Texas lawmakers last week filed more than 1,500 bills ahead of the next legislative session, which begins Jan. 14. 11/21/2024 09:10 PM
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Valid points; votes opposite El Sellers tells us “the OX is in the ditch,” due to “nuts” policies, and he expects Trump to “right our ship of state.” Sadly, his hope is based on erroneous thinking and “high-fog” facts that are simply not true. Point by point, Mr. 11/21/2024 09:10 PM
Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances
Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances
MITCH’S CORNER Katy and I are so excited to be out next week for Thanksgiving break. It has been so busy here lately. 11/21/2024 09:10 PM
GOP win raises stakes for Cornyn’s leadership bid
GOP win raises stakes for Cornyn’s leadership bid
With Republicans regaining majority control of the Senate, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, is making his bid to become that chamber’s majority leader. U.S. Sen. Mitch Mc-Connell, R-Kentucky, had previously announced he would step down as party leader. Republicans will hold at least a 5345 edge in January, with Senate races in two states still undecided as of Friday morning. 11/15/2024 03:40 PM
Football’s most important player
Football’s most important player
What’s the most important position on a football team? I vote for the center. Some pay more attention to the quarterback or running backs, but without the center they’d just be standing around. 11/15/2024 03:40 PM
For when I am weak, then I am strong
For when I am weak, then I am strong
Katy and I went and saw Cody Johnson on Saturday night at Globe Life Field. I surprised her with tickets for her birthday, which was Nov. 11/15/2024 03:40 PM
Ludicrous Information Age
Ludicrous Information Age
Imagine if you told someone 30 years ago that they would spend thousands of dollars on devices that remove them from reality, that place control over their persons in the hands of corporations, that cede access to their nervous system, that chart their every location and activity, that invade not just their privacy but the inner workings of their minds, and that they would do so willingly, even enthusiastically. People would have thought you were ludicrous. Yet that is what has happened, and I often visit with people that just parrot information that comes out of electronic devices without thinking. 11/15/2024 03:40 PM
Give thanks to the Lord, praise his name
Give thanks to the Lord, praise his name
Katy and I had a great weekend. We got to celebrate her birthday. On Saturday night, we went to the Leona Steakhouse. We met a couple there and the woman gave her a little goodie bag for her birthday. It was such a nice little gesture and it put a smile on her face. Take the time this week to do something nice for someone around you and put a smile on their face. 11/06/2024 07:47 PM
Compassion park view
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