Editorials

Immigration laws a federal matter

The Smith County Commissioners Court made the right decision last week when it voted down two toothless resolutions…

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Societies and lives changed by fathers

An amazing study was reported recently in Wired magazine, but its authors didn’t go far enough. Science shows…

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Work with Israel on missile defense

Israel likely headed toward conflict, isolation There are important scientific developments happening in the Middle East almost daily,…

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What ‘tolerance’ no longer means

The executive order signed by President Barack Obama on Monday was relatively narrow in scope, but wide in…

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Children are now Hamas’ weapons

There’s no moral equivalency in what’s happening in Israel and Gaza — no matter how hard the Obama…

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Corporate tax rate is the real problem

With furrowed brows and fever-dreams of what they could do with extra revenue, members of Congress are now…

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First Amendment trumps ‘publicity’

Manuel Noriega is upset. In case you haven’t been keeping up with the deposed Panamanian dictator and drug…

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Enduring hard times with grace, strength

A recent headline in the Tyler Paper said much more, we believe, than it might seem at first…

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This is no cure for summertime blues

The article in the influential Politico Magazine this week should chill the blood of every schoolchild in America,…

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D.C.’s garbage-gate exposes government

You really can’t make this stuff up. Residents in and around Washington D.C. routinely respond to surveys about…