Who -- or what -- brought about our existence?

To my knowledge, there are essentially two models to explain our existence: the “Big Bang” model without a biblical explanation, and then a biblical view which might include a “Big Bang” event.The first of these, offered by our astrophysicists as perhaps the best “scientific” explanation for our...

Thank you to community partners

The Lampasas Senior Center would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to the Town and Country Study Club and Area Wide Locksmith for their generous fundraising efforts in support of installing a handicap-accessible door at our center.This important improvement would not have been possible without...

Trump stakes reputation on Vance’s dubious diplomacy

Donald Trump has been the most cleareyed and most transformative foreign policy president of my lifetime. But Trump is also the famed businessman who wrote “The Art of the Deal” four decades ago.

Bernie Sanders wants government to feed your children

My mother -- a doctor of medicine who had 11 children -- made my brothers and sisters the lunches we carried each day to school in brown paper bags.

For America and our guests, the World Cup runneth over

Psalm 23:5, one of the best-known biblical passages, says, “Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup overflows.”It would be hard to find a passage that better reflects this year’s World Cup soccer (OK, OK “football”) championship,...

Belfast is burning, and the news media won’t say why

Nearly three decades after the end of the Troubles, Belfast -- the capital of Northern Ireland -- is once again on fire. On June 8, a Sudanese “asylum” seeker attacked a local man on the street with a kitchen knife, slashing him across the face and neck.

An Obama-era border crosser

Two weeks after the 2014 midterm elections, then-President Barack Obama addressed the nation on the issue of illegal immigration.

Who will stop the fraud?

Long after Election Day, the ballots comin’ down No IDs or postmarks wherever they are found The laws make cheating legal, and Democrats applaud And I wonder, still I wonder, who’ll stop the fraud?

How to help boys succeed in school

It would be better for boys if society stopped expecting them to act like girls.A Texas mom recently shared a video of her son at his kindergarten graduation. The clip shows him squirming in his chair, playing with his hands and stretching over his seat.

CBS News’ shakeup and future of the mainstream press

On Sept. 30, 2024, progressive thinker and author Ta-Nehisi Coates appeared on “CBS Mornings” to promote his new book focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, “The Message.”