FRONT PORCH GOSPEL: Carry the ‘Can’ spirit with you

Welcome, friends, to the “front porch.” Often as we look at a new year looming just ahead, I’ll be compelled to remind you and me of an old story that has long captured my admiration.

Four marks of a true man

Esquire Magazine published the article, “How to be a Man.” The author wrote a series of proverbs on manliness. One stated, “A man knows how to lose an afternoon. Drinking, playing Grand Theft Auto, driving aimlessly, shooting pool.” Please, do not follow their advice!

OUT TO PASTOR: What is a day off, really?

I’m not one who gets excited about holidays. If up to me there would be one holiday per month, and that’s it. The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage loves holidays, no matter what it is. For her it is a time to have a “Day Off.” If anybody knows how to celebrate a day off it is her.

Antitrust regulators set sights on Big Tech as Amazon’s lack of diversity is exposed

Antitrust regulators at the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are setting their sights on Big Tech, and Amazon, may soon be under investigation by the FTC for monopolizing commerce.

Nothing new in Mueller statement as Special Counsel all but urges impeachment

With a wink and a nod, former Special Counsel Robert Mueller dove into partisan politics to try and kickstart the Democratic House’s impeachment proceedings.

ANALYSIS: Growth causing severe drainage problems in county

Ellis County is growing. What used to be rural, country living, is quickly shifting to suburbia, with more and more people moving to our county and joining our family. Every week, new building sites, commercial and residential, are going up along our highway corridors and farm to market roads.

D-DAY 75TH ANNIVERSARY

D-DAY STATEMENT TO SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AND AIRMEN OF THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, JUNE 1944    Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force: You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you.

OFF MY MEDS by Les Taha (June 6, 2019)

COMICALLY INCORRECT by A.F. Branco (June 6, 2019)