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! Over 500 people registered for this race, which means Lampasas was the destination for many, many runners and walkers.

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. Great Britain, for example, just dropped the voting age to 16, one of fewer than 10 nations where minors that young can vote.

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.

Log off social media, and return to things that matter

Alot of people online have been very, very upset over the Trump Department of Justice’s two-fold conclusion that Jeffrey Epstein’s death in jail in 2019 was a suicide and that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had no “incriminating ‘client list’” among its Epstein files.

The coming collapse of academia

There is plenty of news about higher education these days, and not much of it is good. By way of example, Siena Heights University, a small Catholic college in Adrian, Michigan, just announced it will be closing at the end of the next academic year, after 105 years.

Warning system needed to monitor river level

I am not a resident of Kerrville, Texas, or even Kerr County, but we were in Kerrville on July 3 and July 4. We were far from the Guadalupe River and quite safe from the flood.