Editorials
Guest Editorial: What filing status should I use?
Why should we care about the filing status? People generally think of the amount of taxes we pay that will be different from one filing ... Full story
Simply Speaking: The fourth graders got it...
The Last Stand At Chambers Creek took place in Rice, Texas last weekend. Of course this was a so-called Civil War Reenactment and, of course, ...
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Constitutional Thinking: America: Sleeping on the job
When Benjamin Franklin was asked, “What have you wrought?” upon coming out of the Constitutional Convention, he responded with “A Republic if you can keep ...
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Letters to the Editor: The Sky is Falling! NOT!
I woke up this past Saturday morning, the morning after the president signed the sequestration, put on my crash helmet and went outside to see ...
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Simply Speaking: As Yogi Berra would say...
While the sudden emergence of the Tea Party movement hereabouts in the spring of 2009 was essentially a reaction to the sectionally-elected Barack Hussein Obama ...
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Constitutional Thinking: Understanding Conservative history
Part 2
Last week, I started to explain how many conservatives have been hood-winked. They have followed leaders taking them off the cliff, as documented in ...
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Gun-free zones kill people
Over recent years gun-free zones have become the favorite places for people with bad intentions to carry out their deranged intentions.
Gun-free zones have been the ...
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Letters to the Editor: What we really need…
Anyone who reads my stuff knows that I am pretty good at identifying the problem of the over-bearing federal government. Week after week, I have ...
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Constitutional Thinking: Understanding Conservative history
Has our unconstitutional and illegal corporate federal government (which included our current congress, the executive and judicial branch) said “C’est la guerre?” That means - ...
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Simply Speaking: Mickey Mouse and small minded
Mickey Mouse and small minded is how I see the Ellis County Commissioners Court these days…and “We the People” should become fully aware of how ...
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Medtronic’s 4th-Quarter Revenue Rises 4%
The medical device maker reported net income of $969 million, or 95 cents a share, a decrease of 2 percent from a year ago. ...




