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This Write of Center column will be my last one for 2021. Today, we’ll shift from our usual emphasis on national, state and local political issues to focus on the reason for the season – the celebration of Jesus Christ’s birth and its meaning to believers worldwide.
Read moreHere we are, my friends. It’s Christmas Eve and we’re about to embark on the holiest night of the year as we celebrate the birth of our savior, Jesus Christ.
Read moreThis week came the sad news that a Republican icon, Bob Dole, had died at age 98.
Read moreIt’s difficult to comprehend that 14 days from now … two measly weeks … all our stockings will be hung by the chimney with care in hopes that St. Nicholas soon will be there.
Read moreRound and round and round she goes – and where she stops nobody knows. …
Read moreI am convinced that our obsession with statewide races and big picture politics are what is killing the Democratic Party in rural Texas. For over 30 years we have told ourselves that if we just had the right candidate for governor, or senator, or one of the other big races, our voters will finally turn out in droves, and we will reclaim the Democrats rightful place of power in Austin. Then all will be right with the world. That is a delusion so false, it is almost criminal. Yet we fall for it again and again. We have had several of those candidates over the decades. Every last one of them has gone down to defeat. “Yeah but we came close,” some will say.
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