The making of a banana republic

It is a presidential election year, and a leading candidate for president -- who also happens to be a former president of the United States -- is currently a criminal defendant chained to a dingy courtroom four days of the week.

Why communism and socialism fail

The protests roiling our college campuses have provided yet another opportunity for the perennially disgruntled to call for the end of America’s democratic form of government and system of free market capitalism, and to replace both with some collectivist pipe dream.

After all that spending, only 28% of eighth-graders proficient in math

The public schools in the state of New York doled out $29,284 per pupil in “current expenditures” in fiscal year 2022, said a report published last week by the Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics.

Upkeep lacking at cemetery

My parents were born and raised in Lampasas and thus are buried there.Today (May 7), my brother and I, who are now elderly, drove over three hours to the cemetery to visit our parents’ grave for Mother’s Day.

The foolish clamor for revolution

The pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas, anti-Israel protests have spread to university campuses across the country, just as the agitators hoped (and planned) for them to do. As was also expected, some of these protests have turned violent.

Are we still asleep?

EDITOR ’S NOTE: The following letter originally was submitted for publication in the Dispatch Record in August 2009, after the election of President Obama. Freida Holland has requested the newspaper rerun the letter, as its message still seems pertinent.

Why small businesses hate Bidenomics

EDITOR ’S NOTE: Dennis Prager is off this week. We hope readers will enjoy the following guest column by Stephen Moore.If the economy is so good, why do small-business leaders feel so bad?

Biden should scrap his Palestinian refugee plan

Picture this in your mind: Scores of college campuses across the United States are being roiled by pro Palestinian demonstrations. Students are camping out in tents on university malls and, in the case of Columbia University, breaking windows and occupying lecture halls.

Have the chickens come home to roost for Sen. Cornyn due to his stand on gun rights?

The phrase “The chickens have come home to roost” is an idiom that, simply put, means the consequences of one’s actions are catching up to them.

Lampasas EDC Business Park still sits empty

This week marks a day of infamy for the city of Lampasas.Most people don’t know it, but on May 1, 2004, the Lampasas Economic Development Corp. (LEDC) voted 5-0 to authorize a $1.1 million bond issuance at 7.00% interest rate. The purpose?