Lessons learned from 2021

EDITOR’S NOTE: Josh Hammer is off this week. We hope readers will enjoy the following column by Laura Hollis. The last year has pretty much been a dumpster fire, and I’m glad to see it go.

Enough is enough!

We have a good life in our community, and most of Texas has the same good values that we have. But, much of our country is changing quickly, so we must get our heads out of the sand and pay attention to truthful news such as Newsmax and Epoch Times.

The death of ‘criminal justice’ reform

Are there are any other issues confronting our fractious republic that matter if Americans themselves are too scared to walk outside, lest they be mugged by a “bail reform”-freed perp or shot by a gangbanger in a drive-by shooting?

Let’s celebrate 100 years of football broadcasts

A massive crowd swarmed City Hall Park and the streets around it on the afternoon of Oct. 28, 1922. The New York Police had been warned it was coming and diverted traffic as a safety measure. Was the crowd there to protest? No.

Making a positive impact in someone’s life

We often say we ought to do something ... we should help out, make a difference, and then, well we get busy. Let me tell you about a family that made a difference and significant impact on my life almost 42 years ago.

Parks Department retrieves lost item for Lampasas visitors

On the evening of Sunday, Dec. 12, a couple from South Dakota, escaping the first snowstorm of the season, was driving through Lampasas headed to their bucket list destination of Luckenbach. They spotted the elaborate Christmas decorations and strolled through the park.

Federal debt equals $287,859 per income-paying household

As Congress worked in recent days to increase the legal limit on the federal debt, the Treasury kept that debt artificially frozen at approximately $28.9 trillion, where it stood at the beginning of last week.

Differences between a secular and a religious upbringing

Anyone who thinks about the current civil war in America comes to realize that it is, in large measure, a war between the religious and the anti-religious.

Second Amendment rights for our servicemen

In Texas, our new Congressman August Pfluger will tell you he supports your Second Amendment rights, but in Washington he votes against them.

GOP’s multi-ethnic, working class coalition has seen success

In the 2016 Republican Party presidential primary, decades of dissonance between the party’s aggrieved grassroots and its blinkered elite spilled out into the open.