Why the Democrats are in such a mess

Ever since Donald Trump was re-elected president last November, winning the Electoral College and the popular vote, the Democratic Party has been battered by bad news:• Voter demographics Democrats have traditionally been able to rely on swung heavily Republican in 2024, including Hispanics, blacks...

America should not apologize for dropping bombs on Japan

We have marked the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman’s fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (respectively, Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945). To date, those two bombings represent the only instances in which nuclear weapons have been deployed in war.

To save civilization, we must reject feminism and honor mothers

The triumph of modern feminism has put society on the path to demographic collapse. The U.S. fertility rate dropped to a new low last year, according to recently released CDC data. An earlier report put the country’s total fertility rate at around 1.6 births per woman.

Congress should close Dept. of Education

In fiscal 2024, when President Joe Biden was still in office and the federal government was running a $1.8 trillion deficit, the Department of Education spent three times as much as the Department of Homeland Security and six times as much as the Department of Justice.

How to keep kids from killing kids

What once would have shocked the conscience is now forgotten by the end of the article. Consider these recent stories on juvenile homicides.In Southern Nevada, last October, 17-year-old Keanu Enright left his home to play video games. Police said a group of friends ended up “handling a gun.”

Kudos on coordinating the Toughest 10K race

Dear Lampasas: Our local Lampasas County Chamber of Commerce deserves a huge “Thank you!” for putting on a wonderful Toughest 10K race event on July 12!

Is Gen Z a voting bloc for collectivism?

Politicians have lusted after the “youth vote” for decades, but the “youth vote” is getting even younger these days.

There need to be consequences

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has begun releasing hundreds of pages of previously classified documents about the “Russia collusion hoax.”

Grading the second Trump presidency

Over the course of four years’ banishment to America’s political wilderness while subjected to both a would-be assassin’s bullets and the unprecedented spectacle of criminal prosecution by his political opponents, Donald Trump seems to have intuited a key life lesson: Time is of the essence.

Playing with fire: in defense of controlled burns

The devastating loss of Grand Canyon Lodge isn’t a reason to put new restrictions on good fire. The North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park is a marvel. A few summers ago, a friend and I took our sons there and drank in the remarkable views.