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Local firm has no involvement in Texas Materials train project

News Staff
Monday, April 7, 2025
What follows is our company’s official statement of non-involvement in the Burnet-Lampasas County quarry train project. *** Railroad Infrastructure & Terminal Development, also known as RITD Engineering & Surveying, is a company specializing in rail yard development projects.
SNAP shouldn’t subsidize Slurpees

SNAP shouldn’t subsidize Slurpees

SNAP shouldn’t subsidize Slurpees

Victor Joecks
Monday, April 7, 2025
EDITOR’S NOTE: Dennis Prager is off this week. We hope readers will enjoy the following guest column by Victor Joecks.Even Chicken Little would be exhausted trying to keep up with what Democrats claim President Donald Trump wants to do.Just look at the news.
Occam’s razor in an era of declining public trust

Occam’s razor in an era of declining public trust

Occam’s razor in an era of declining public trust

Josh Hammer
Monday, March 31, 2025
The venerable principle known as “Occam’s razor,” attributed to the 14th-century English philosopher and theologian William of Ockham, asserts that when confronted with multiple possible explanations for a causal phenomenon, the simplest explanation is -- absent persuasive evidence to the contrary...
China deserves the Trump tariffs

China deserves the Trump tariffs

China deserves the Trump tariffs

Terence P. Jeffrey
Monday, March 31, 2025
This January, when President Joe Biden was serving his last weeks in office and turning over the presidency to Donald Trump, the United States ran a $31.7 billion trade deficit with the People’s Republic of China.That was the largest trade deficit the United States ran that month with any nation --...
When judges violate the Constitution

When judges violate the Constitution

When judges violate the Constitution

Victor Joecks
Monday, March 31, 2025
EDITOR ’S NO TE: Dennis Prager is off this week. We hope readers will enjoy the following guest column by Victor Joecks.Leftist judges want to turn President Donald Trump into a president in name only.
Roberts is responsible for the High Court’s self-delegitimization

Roberts is responsible for the High Court’s self-delegitimization

Roberts is responsible for the High Court’s self-delegitimization

Josh Hammer
Monday, March 24, 2025
At his 2005 Senate confirmation hearing to be chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, John Roberts invoked America’s national pastime in describing his view of the judicial role in our constitutional order: “Judges are like umpires. Umpires don’t make the rules, they apply them.
How some drugs got to Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco district

How some drugs got to Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco district

How some drugs got to Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco district

Terence P. Jeffrey
Monday, March 24, 2025
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lives in one of San Francisco’s poshest neighborhoods -- that nonetheless sits only about 2 miles from the Tenderloin, one of the most drug-infested corners of the city.In 2019, when President Donald Trump was in his first term and Bill Barr was serving as attorney...
Why Trump should ignore the stock market

Why Trump should ignore the stock market

Why Trump should ignore the stock market

Victor Joecks
Monday, March 24, 2025
EDITOR ’S NO TE: Dennis Prager is off this week. We hope readers will enjoy the following guest column by Victor Joecks.President Donald Trump’s economic priority shouldn’t be preventing a recession. Stock prices are always a bit of a roller coaster.
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