Category: Viewpoints

There is a fascinating convergence of rural interests and politics as we approach the 86th state legislative session.  Take November’s election results in deep red Bosque County as an example: local voters carried Ted Cruz by...

By Glenn Mollette    Between 1948 and 2011 the United States gave Egypt 71.6 billion dollars in bilateral military and economic aid. Our Senate last August passed a new bill that will give 38 billion dollars in military aid...

By John Driscoll For most Americans, the most painful aspect of the government shutdown has been the prospect of delayed tax returns. But for many of us — 38 million to be exact– starving is a real possibility....

Dear Editor,   Shortly after the surrender of British forces at Yorktown in 1783 and the victorious American revolution, one of the British king’s ministers remarked to the king that General Washington had promised to leave...