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On January 10, the Texas legislature began it’s 2023 legislative session. Major issues according to the state to be decided this year include the “state budget, school issues, border security and property issues…,” according to the Texas Tribune.
Read moreEditor’s Note: The poll of 1,500 individuals referenced in this column can be found at today.yougov.com.
Read moreWhat does Letters Testamentary mean? And why is it not Letters OF Testamentary? This term may seem foreign to you, but it’s actually one of the more basic estate planning documents. As for the latter question, I really don’t know why it’s not Letters OF Testamentary. I guess attorneys just want to make things difficult.
Read moreI’m deputized to write this column on some of my opinions as a Democrat. Though I’ve got lots of them, I’m not sure how well I’ll be able to carry off this task. First, I really prefer to describe myself as democratic rather than own the name of Democrat. Why? Mainly because I’ve changed my opinions on so many things since I began to think I had them that I prefer not to wear any sticky label anymore. I’d rather tell myself that I’m open-minded, not empty-headed. Here’s where I came from: Way back, I swam in a nurturing amniotic ocean, grew up, and out, in a fragrant atmosphere of Texan attitudes my family, all my friends and play/schoolmates took for granted as the normal way things just were. My elders, teachers and friends held lofty, “self-evident,” mostly unspoken prejudices against all people, from anywhere else or just at all, that were not patriotic white Anglo-American Protestant Christian “native-born” U.S. citizens. We did not think we were bad people, absolutely not! Many of us thought we felt sorry for the poor wretches not as fortunate by birth and circumstance as we were. We wore our superiority lightly unless threatened by subversive or “uppity’ influences from below or outside. Then look out, __! (Fill in appr. slander-name.)
Read moreThe beginning of the war on terror at the turn of the century coincided with the creation of new euphemisms to describe things that were already well defined. Although military idioms have long tortured language for the sake of specious arguments, there was a new audacity in the way it was being reshaped to excuse the previously inexcusable.
Read morePicture a bully in the schoolyard, who is dominant because he can get away with it. Now picture another kid, who walks up to the bully and suggests that everybody work together to resolve whatever issue is presenting at that moment. What happens next?
Read moreThe year 2023 is here. What does it have in store for you? Aren’t you glad you cannot see into the future? What is the best thing that could happen to you? Win the lottery? Never get sick? Have a good paying job? Have good relations with others? Ride a winner at the rodeo? How about dying? That’s a scary thought isn’t it?
Read moreAfter a long week of painful deliberations, we have a U.S House of Representatives Speaker of the House.
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