Voices

No doubt you have heard, “Life is just one damned thing after another!” It’s not true. The truth is that life is one damned thing over and over and over! COVID is a good example of that fact. As of this writing a full 2 years and 7 months have passed since we started talking and worrying about the new coronavirus from China. We have had four waves or peaks of hospitalizations and deaths associated with the virus. Two were before we started naming subvariants, a third peak was associated with Delta and a fourth was associated with Omicron.

John Connally became a giant in Texas politics in the 1960s. He had a long career that included service in World War II, work as an attorney, years of work with Lyndon Johnson as his right-hand man in many campaigns. He would eventually rise to become governor and Secretary of the Treasury in a storied career. For Connally, it all began as part of a hardworking tenant farming family in South Texas.

Aquilino Gonell felt rage. The U.S. Army veteran and 16-year member of the Capitol Police force was listening to Cassidy Hutchinson tell the House Select Commit tee to Invest igate the Janu ary 6 Attack how Donald Trump had spurred on his followers even though he knew many were armed.

In John 10:10 Jesus said, “I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.” That’s a pretty big promise. Some translations say that we should “enjoy life” or have a “full” life that is “overflowing.

So the questions are if indeed our Ellis County Commissioners Court wants to insure election integrity upon the premise our present elections office officials cannot provide such integrity, at the behest of a party chairman bringing into question who’s running the show at county level, just who were the election officials and what was the integrity level when our county commissioners and county judge were elected to their present terms?

More than 180 years after his death, the mention of Jim Bowie still stirs the imagination of admirers around the world. But Bowie was more than just the knife or the battle at the Alamo.

Aquilino Gonell felt rage. The U.S. Army veteran and 16-year member of the Capitol Police force was listening to Cassidy Hutchinson tell the House Select Commit tee to Invest igate the Janu ary 6 Attack how Donald Trump had spurred on his followers even though he knew many were armed.

I got up Sunday morning thinking it seems like the last thing people need is another sermon. We are so busy as a culture and we have so much to do – did I really want to stand up and give people one more thing to do, one more rule to follow? I keep thinking about how glad I am that all of our kids are grown up.

There is no doubt about Nikolas Cruz’s culpability for the mass murder of 17 people and the injury of 17 others at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14, 2018. His horrific actions affected many more than those who were injured or killed and will leave a lifetime scar on far too many people. He absolutely must be held accountable for this tragedy. The death penalty, however, is the wrong way to do so, for several reasons

Google and Facebook have enormous economic and political power in society – especially over the news industry. Many ask if they have played a role in the misinformation that erodes our free press and plagues our democracy.