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Trump has the very best enemies

News Staff

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

On the one hand, Donald Trump, the former and perhaps future president of the United States, seems uniquely hapless.

Is Tucker Carlson right about our cities?

News Staff

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

American journalist Tucker Carlson was interviewed as part of the World Government Summit in Dubai last week, and if people were outraged by his recent interview of Russian President Vladimir Putin, they were likely apoplectic after his remarks in Dubai about America’s cities: “[W]hat was...

Guilt-tripping our way to self-destruction

News Staff

Monday, February 12, 2024

Everywhere we turn, the country looks like it is falling apart. Crime is out of control. Millions of illegal immigrants are pouring across our borders. Our schools are more interested in cultivating gender dysphoria and a proclivity for porn than in educating our children.

Two ‘national anthems’ at Super Bowl

News Staff

Monday, February 12, 2024

On Sunday, at the most widely viewed sporting event in America -- the Super Bowl -- the National Football League featured the singing of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the song first known as the “Negro national anthem” and now known as the “black national anthem.

Weakness breeds aggression

News Staff

Monday, February 12, 2024

EDITOR’S NOTE: Josh Hammer is off this week. We hope readers will enjoy the following guest column by Ben Shapiro. Three American soldiers died recently at the hands of an Iranian proxy group that used a drone to strike an American base in Jordan.

You should rethink flying United Airlines

News Staff

Monday, February 5, 2024

In 2021, United Airlines released the following statement: “Our flight deck should reflect the diverse group of people on board our planes every day. That’s why we plan for 50% of the 5,000 pilots we train in the next decade to be women or people of color.

Lampasas Mission enters its 24th year of service to the community

News Staff

Monday, February 5, 2024

In 2001, Rebecca Dowdy started Lampasas Mission in a storage closet of First Baptist Church in Lampasas. In 2004, the Mission relocated to a house at Fifth and Western streets. Then, in 2008, the Mission acquired the building in which it is now housed at 910 E. Fourth St.

President confused on the right to life

News Staff

Monday, February 5, 2024

President Joe Biden seemed a little confused when he gave a speech at a church in South Carolina last Sunday. First, he mistook the Declaration of Independence for the Constitution.

What exactly is meant by ‘America First’?

News Staff

Monday, February 5, 2024

The primary slogan of the Trump movement is the simple, now-iconic appeal to “Make America Great Again.” Indeed, “MAGA” is so ubiquitous that it is now a metonym for the movement itself. But if the Trump movement has a second catchphrase after “MAGA,” it would be “America First.

Biden declares there is no border crisis

News Staff

Monday, January 29, 2024

President Joe Biden -- wearing a brown leather jacket and a black baseball hat -- walked out onto the South Lawn of the White House on a recent Saturday morning on his way to Marine One. He was flying to Camp David for the weekend. But first he stopped to talk to some reporters. “Mr.

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