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Posting Ten Commandments in classrooms

News Staff

Monday, December 1, 2025

Thank you, Lampasas ISD and Mr. Kyle Black! Ten Commandments posters are a blessing to students.Joyce Smith former history teacher, 1976-1982 Lampasas Middle School

What is an American?

Josh Hammer

Monday, November 24, 2025

The chaotic confrontation in Dearborn, Michigan, last Tuesday -- when a demonstrator attempted to burn a Qur’an, and Muslim counter-protesters surged -- was more than a brief flash of drama.

Congress should pass a discontinuing resolution for Dept. of Education

Terence P. Jeffrey

Monday, November 24, 2025

When former California Gov. Ronald Reagan sat down with William F. Buckley Jr. to tape an episode of “Firing Line” in January 1980, he stated his unambiguous position on the newly created federal Department of Education.

Entrepreneurial capitalism is crucial to America’s success

Laura Hollis

Monday, November 24, 2025

Afew years ago, I was invited to speak in Mobile, Alabama. Driving down from Indiana, I stopped for the night in Nashville, Tennessee, but on the way back, I decided to drive all the way from Mobile to Indianapolis.

The next social epidemic: legalized sports gambling

Josh Hammer

Monday, November 17, 2025

In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association.

Mamdani wants big government to solve government’s failures

Victor Joecks

Monday, November 17, 2025

In 1996, former President Bill Clinton declared, “The era of big government is over.”Three decades later, the left has a different message.

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Poverty, obesity and SNAP in America

Laura Hollis

Monday, November 17, 2025

Adisturbing statistic revealing the dismal state of health in America is that more than 40% of the population is obese (defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as having a body mass index of 30 or higher).

It’s still the economy, stupid

Josh Hammer

Monday, November 10, 2025

Republicans are licking their wounds after last Tuesday’s ballot box defeats. But there is a lesson to be learned here.

AOC poised to be Democrats’ Trump

Victor Joecks

Monday, November 10, 2025

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is both radical and unqualified to be president. But she still has a clear path to winning the Democratic presidential nomination.Last Tuesday, Socialist Zohran Mamdani became the next mayor of New York City.

Tuesday’s takeaways

Laura Hollis

Monday, November 10, 2025

Ihad two different topics I intended to cover this week, but the election results across the country, and the events leading up to them, warrant some observations. So here are a few of mine: 1.

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