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When children walked to school

Monday, September 22, 2025

When I was a boy, my brothers and I walked more than 2 miles every weekday. This was because we lived a little bit more than a mile from the school we attended.

Is evolution a fact, or still just a theory?

News Staff

Monday, September 22, 2025

There have long been at least two major views to explain the origin of our universe, the earth on which we live, and life. Most evolutionary theorists evidently believe that matter and life came about from non-life and non-intelligence.

My Artificial Intelligence grows weary

Victor Joecks

Monday, September 22, 2025

I’ll be a lot more worried about AI when it stops acting like a lazy child.For the last several months, I’ve been kicking around a book idea. The biggest hurdle isn’t the writing or even the daunting task of creating a way to ensure someone else actually reads it.

Teetering on the edge of the abyss

Laura Hollis

Monday, September 22, 2025

At this writing, it has been about a week since young conservative activist Charlie Kirk was gunned down at a rally on the campus of Utah Valley University in front of his wife and hundreds of attendees.

Residents gather to recognize the freedoms that conservative speaker Charlie Kirk championed across the nation and to pray for strength and corporate healing after his assassination last week. ERICK MITCHELL | DISPATCH RECORD

Vigil honors legacy of Turning Point USA founder

News Staff

Thursday, September 18, 2025

Hundreds of area residents, perhaps more than a thousand, gathered Monday night at the Lampasas County Courthouse for a candlelight vigil organized over the weekend to honor the legacy of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk.This was not a protest event. It was not a political rally.

The martyrdom of my friend Charlie Kirk

Josh Hammer

Monday, September 15, 2025

It is difficult enough to write about the most high-profile political assassination in this country since the Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy killings of 1968. It is considerably more difficult to do so when the victim was a personal friend. The pain is profound.

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Why is America so polarized? I can tell you

Laura Hollis

Monday, September 15, 2025

Ihad a different column planned for this week -- on the same topic that’s in the title. But not five minutes before I sat down to write it, I heard that conservative commentator Charlie Kirk had been shot in the neck at a speaking event in Utah.

The very troubled Sen. Tim Kaine

Terence P. Jeffrey

Monday, September 15, 2025

President Donald Trump has nominated Riley Barnes to serve as the assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, which is dedicated to helping “advance individual liberty and democratic freedoms around the world.

Constitution authorizes National Guard deployment

Josh Hammer

Monday, September 8, 2025

Donald Trump’s proposal to deploy the National Guard to crime-overrun blue cities like Chicago and Baltimore has been met with howls of outrage from the usual suspects. For many liberal talking heads and Democratic officials, this is simply the latest evidence of Trump’s “authoritarianism.

Trespassing at local business

News Staff

Monday, September 8, 2025

Re: Kids trespassing into local businesses and are NOT paying customers.No, it’s not OK and can lead to being asked to leave under Texas law, because McDonald’s is a private business, and its property is for paying customers, not for children to run around and play without making a purchase.

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