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Buried in the back pages of a Houston newspaper in July 1942 was a brief account of the sinking on the fifth of the month of a cargo ship “somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico.” German U-boats were on the prowl off the coast of Texas, but there was no reason to get folks all riled up about it! Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, seashore inhabitants of the Lone Star State had a bad case of the jitters for the first time since the Civil War. The United States was at war for exactly a month, when Galveston staged a blackout and ordered total darkness for the duration in a three-block strip along the beach.

Dear Boss, Please let me explain why I don’t have a column today, although I have struggled mightily to produce one. I blame it on the tomato.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe vs.

When, in 1901, it came to the motivation behind the City Council of El Paso to preserve the safety of its citizenry, the phrase “We aim to please” took on a whole new meaning. We’re not talking about taking dead aim, as with a revolver, because, believe it or not, in that deep-in-the heart-of-Texas-city, at that time, “pistol totin’ ” was illegal.

I was once a runner. Not a jogger, but a runner.

The speed of life these days is becoming dangerous. We in the lesser bustle of rural Texas tend not to give it much attention. But five dollar gas and woke shaming lunacies are changing that. Our families and our nation’s culture of freedom and independence are now at peril. As our leaders and media struggle to define what matters or is true or relevant, the simple declaratives of daily life are descending into a growing cloud of obfuscation. We all need to stop for a moment and consider where we are going with some help from remembering where we have been.

To The Editor: I wish President Biden would quit saying during the rare speeches that he makes that he has brought all-time highs to our country with jobs and new businesses. Fact is, some people are having to come out now to actually work, since some of our taxpayer money is no longer paying people to sit at home.

To The Editor: Today pain is everywhere although different segments of our multi-national country may be feeling it for the first time or greater than ever. How did we get here? Complacency and comfort over time.

To The Editor: With the Jan. 6 committee about half-way finished telling their findings, the picture couldn’t be more vivid or clear.

Dazed, depressed and at the end of his rope, Samuel W. Jordan wandered the streets of New Orleans on Jun.