Michael Reagan Don’t thank Hollywood for “Sound of Freedom.” The movie, about a former Homeland Security agent who goes to Colombia and rescues more than 50 kids from child sex traffickers, is an action-thriller – a drama. But it is based closely on the true story of Tim Ballard andContinue Reading
Ken Bridges/Contributing Writer Texas musician Scott Bradley was never widely known outside of the studio, but his music was the heart of some of the most iconic American cultural icons of the twentieth century, most notably, the famed cartoon duo of Tom and Jerry. Bradley was born in Russellville, Ark.,,Continue Reading
Dick Polman/Contributing Writer What a perfect holiday-week news story, the equivalent of a brainless summer movie. Some clown recently left a small baggie of cocaine in the White House visitors area, thus inspiring various clowns in the MAGA cult to froth at the mouth. Suddenly they’re all concerned about “security,”Continue Reading
Michael Reagan/Contributing Writer What a welcome home. A topless trans person proudly flashing a party on the White House lawn. A mysterious bag of cocaine turning up in the West Wing. A news report saying that Hunter Biden was being investigated by the Justice Department for violating the Mann ActContinue Reading
Ken Bridges/Contributing Writer For years, he was considered to be the most trusted man in America. Texan Walter Cronkite became the face of the news for millions of Americans as television news began to make its appearance and to make an impact on the nation’s consciousness. As one of the most well-known journalists in theContinue Reading
Rev. Richard Skinner/Jefferson First Assembly of God Summertime often revolves around tasty food, especially summer fruits. Everyone has their favorite. I like peaches, blueberries, and watermelon. Even as I write, I can savor the taste of homemade peach ice cream, blueberry pie and sweet watermelons. We all know what theyContinue Reading
Michael Reagan/Contributing Writer Barack Obama told a good joke the other day. He said he thought that the level of disinformation and misinformation online has gotten so dangerously high in the U.S. that we need to develop “digital fingerprints” so ordinary citizens can tell what’s truly true and know who’sContinue Reading
Dick Polman/Contributing Writer I get why the Republicans are so obsessed with Hunter Biden. They don’t much of anything else. Inflation is down, job creation is up, the deficit is down, the Dow is up, Joe Biden’s achievements (especially on infrastructure) are kicking in, and the GOP has chained itselfContinue Reading
Ken Bridges/Contributing Writer Texan Byron Nelson was a legend in sports. In the 1940s, he was the most successful golfer in the world, never losing his faith or his modesty. John Byron Nelson, Jr., was born in Waxahachie in 1912 to a hard-working family of devoted churchgoers. In the 1920s, the familyContinue Reading
The hopes for new faces and new attitudes was quietly shown the door during Tuesday nights City Council meeting. While there is one new face on Council, and two returning ones, the names and faces on the various City Boards will stay the same – or go back to thoseContinue Reading
Ken Bridges/Contributing Writer The generation that fought World War I is now gone, but their legacy of bravery continues to live on. One of those figures was Private Marcelino Serna of El Paso, one of the most highly decorated men of the war. As an immigrant, he fought with uncommonContinue Reading
Ken Bridges Adversity, it is said, is the truest test of character. When times are flush and problems scarce, few will have to find a way to rise to the occasion when the occasion has risen for them. Gov. Joseph Sayers was a man who faced many crises in hisContinue Reading
Michael Reagan Oil money, oil money. When you have as much of it as Saudi Arabia has, it can buy a lot of things – including a sacred American sports institution like the PGA. As all of us hackers know, the PGA Tour shocked the golf world this week byContinue Reading
Peter Funt Give Donald Trump credit for one thing: The man knows how to make lemonade. Each time new charges are leveled against the former president, cash registers ring at the Trump Save America Joint Fundraising Committee. Most of Trump’s appeals for money end with the message: “It’s because ofContinue Reading
Ken Bridges Change often came slowly to the South, but it often arrived with a whirlwind of effort pushing it along. Helen Stoddard, a force of nature unto herself, became a leader in the state with her efforts to defeat alcohol and promote women’s equality. Stoddard became an early professorContinue Reading
Hunter Bonner/MC Republican Assembly This past week, news was abuzz about Senator Dianne Feinstein’s return to the US Senate. Senator Feinstein returned in a wheelchair, and when spoken to by members of the press, seemed incoherent. At one point, she even asked, “Where are we at?” Feinstein has been sufferingContinue Reading
Glenn Melancon Note: Glenn is on vacation this summer and has provided a series of columns previously printed. Not all life skills are the same. Some are more important than others. One essential skill is learning to tell the difference between fact and fiction. We have to learn who isContinue Reading
Ken Bridges In so many ways, what was once science fiction is rapidly becoming a reality. Nanotechnology, once a seemingly impossible idea is now becoming the future of medicine and engineering, thanks to Dr. Richard Smalley, Texas chemist, Nobel Prize winner, and the father of nanotechnology. Richard Errett SmalleyContinue Reading
Glenn Melancon/Contributing writer For the first hundred years of American history, there was one cause of public debt: war. The United States of America started in debt, and it paid its bills. There wasn’t another spike in debt to Gross Domestic Product ratio until the American Civil War. At thisContinue Reading
