Opinions

Making a positive impact in someone’s life

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We often say we ought to do something ... we should help out, make a difference, and then, well we get busy. Let me tell you about a family that made a difference and significant impact on my life almost 42 years ago.

Parks Department retrieves lost item for Lampasas visitors

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On the evening of Sunday, Dec. 12, a couple from South Dakota, escaping the first snowstorm of the season, was driving through Lampasas headed to their bucket list destination of Luckenbach. They spotted the elaborate Christmas decorations and strolled through the park.

Differences between a secular and a religious upbringing

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Anyone who thinks about the current civil war in America comes to realize that it is, in large measure, a war between the religious and the anti-religious. The Left has contempt for evangelical Protestants, traditional Catholics and Orthodox Jews for good reason: They represent everything the Left loathes.

Second Amendment rights for our servicemen

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In Texas, our new Congressman August Pfluger will tell you he supports your Second Amendment rights, but in Washington he votes against them. When the National Defense Authorization Act passed, Nancy Pelosi inserted a Section 529 that provides for the confiscation of firearms from activeduty servicemen without due process.

GOP’s multi-ethnic, working class coalition has seen success

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In the 2016 Republican Party presidential primary, decades of dissonance between the party’s aggrieved grassroots and its blinkered elite spilled out into the open. For years, the chasm widened between the GOP’s heartland base, the river valley-dwelling “Somewheres” from David Goodhart’s 2017 book, “The Road to Somewhere,” and the party’s bi-coastal “Anywhere” rulers. The foot-soldier Republican “Somewheres,” disproportionately church-attending and victimized by job outsourcing and the opioid crisis, felt betrayed by the more secular, ideologically inflexible Republican “Anywheres.”

Congress fixes problems in NDAA bill

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EDitor’s note: The proposal to draft women into mandated military service is an issue the Dispatch Record has followed and spoken against. We trust readers will be encouraged by this follow-up commentary from Tony Perkins.

Inside the vaccine passport racket

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The profit-maximizing corporations that covet your “digital health” data hide behind nonprofit umbrella groups that pose as public interest do-gooders. These vaccine passport profiteers are turning millions of human beings into walking QR codes in the name of fighting COVID-19 and under the guise of bringing “normalcy” back. It’s an unprecedented worldwide racket that rewards compliant sheep and punishes free-thinking, autonomy-seeking citizens.

Fauci stokes fear with emergence of COVID variant

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Stand by for Act III. While the rest of the world reeled with the discovery of a new COVID variant, Omicron, at least one person appears to be basking in the spotlight once again: Dr. Anthony Fauci. Reveling in his celebrity-like status on the Sunday news shows, the president’s pandemic mouthpiece didn’t let the absence of scientific information hinder his discussion about the newest COVID variant.