America at 250: roots of our greatness

If you want to find out why our country has been so successful, you should study the people who built it.America is about to turn 250 years old. It should be easy to celebrate America. Aside from the healthy patriotic pride anyone should feel, we are the greatest country in the history of the world.

Serving one’s country should be a sacred honor

As we approach USA250, we should remember our Founding documents. Many people are familiar with some of the phrases of the Declaration of Independence, such as “When in the course of human events …” and “We hold these truths to be self-evident … .

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.

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.

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. The standard menu was a sandwich and some kind of fruit an apple, an orange, a banana or, maybe, a peach or a pear.

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.

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. Part of this address -- delivered from the White House -- actually focused on the negative aspects of people illegally entering and staying in the United States.

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?