LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Cancel culture and selective outrage – welcome to the Biden/AOC world

My wife and I utterly reject the radical hypocrisy of today’s cancel culture based on cheap excuses of highly selective outage. A Bernie Sanders supporter shoots a Republican congressman at a ball field and where’s the outrage from the Left? Zilch!

Biden team resurrecting Obama’s open-borders fiasco

Once again demonstrating Democrats’ obsession with undoing all things Trump, the Biden team is unilaterally canceling US agreements with El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras that helped rein in the surge of illegal crossers at the US-Mexico border – with no plan in place for what else to do.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: And this is... the... rest of the story

Welcome to the “front porch.” Have you ever wondered what the famed Georgian native son Lewis Grizzard would have to say about the state of the union today, or what kind of assessment one of the country’s greatest voices, Paul Harvey would offer?

OUT TO PASTOR: A divided house makes a happy home

Never has our world been more divided than today. Politics, religion, sports and on and on I could go. For the most part, so many people think being divided is a negative thing. And for many people it is.

OFF MY MEDS by Les Taha (February 11, 2021)

LOCAL STUDENT UPDATE: February 11, 2021

Halle Law and Jessica Scheer of Midlothian were named to the Deans List for the Fall 2020 semester at the University of Alabama. Taylor Daniell of Ennis was named to the Dean’s List for the Fall 2020 semester at the University of Central Arkansas.

5 tips to protect seniors from financial scams right now

STATEPOINT – Social isolation among seniors is not only linked to numerous negative health consequences like depression and cardiovascular disease, but it’s also a primary contributing factor in financial exploitation and scams.

ELLIS COUNTY ARRESTS: February 2 – 7

Rogers, Paula, 56, theft prop >=$100<$750. Mahone, John, 57, DWI 2nd, duty on striking fixture/hwy. Reza, Raymundo, 40, indecency with child-exposes Felony 3, ICE detainer Felony 3. Ruiz, Antonio, 35, assault causes bodily injury.

GLENN HEIGHTS ARRESTS: January 29 – February 4

Landeros, Pedro, 49, DWI.

PALMER ARRESTS: January 30 – February 4

Landeros, Erik, 21, DWI. Perez, Jose, 26, reckless driving.  Mason, Anton, 32, unl poss firearm by felon.