In a pandemic, government efficiency can make the difference between life and death. You’d expect our civil “servants” to rise to the occasion. Some are. But the Government Accountability Office, a federal watchdog, is sounding the alarm that, for the most part, Washington bureaucrats are di…
Dr. Thomas Sowell has been both a friend and a colleague of mine for over a half-century. On Tuesday, he completed his 90th year of life, and I want to highlight some important features of that life. Sowell was born in Gastonia, North Carolina, in 1930. As part of the great black migration n…
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I have been a resident of Tyler since 1958. I do not remember any controversy over the name Robert E. Lee when the high school was built. Now the name of the school seems to offend numerous Tyler citizens. One writer to the paper refers to his name as a “dogwhistle for segregation and white …
Repairing or even replacing your roof can be one of the largest projects a homeowner will have to consider in the lifetime of a home. Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, consumers have turned to the Better Business Bureau more than 17,000 times per day to research a roofing business. The BBB rem…
My hometown of Ashdown, Arkansas, had Walmart No. 17. They’ve since built a Super Center, but during my early teen years, it was a small store.
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The Payroll Protection Program, or the PPP, is the crown jewel of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act’s attempt to rescue small businesses from effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Unfortunately, the program has been a mess in its implementation and its results. This predic…
Mainstream media are sounding the alarm about the coronavirus cases spiking across the South and West. They’re exaggerating the peril and trying to pin the blame on Republican governors and President Donald Trump for reopening the economy too soon.
Many whites are ashamed, saddened and feel guilty about our history of slavery, Jim Crow and gross racial discrimination. Many black people remain angry over the injustices of the past and what they see as injustices of the present. Both blacks and whites can benefit from a better appreciati…
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It’s no surprise that the pandemic has affected the economy as unemployment rates continue to soar and economic output has plunged these past few months. As a result, the U.S. has officially gone into recession, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. The Better Business Burea…
When I was a kid, things didn’t break as often as they do now. If you bought something at Sears Lawn and Garden, you needed to run over it with an 18-wheeler to render it nonfunctional.
This Independence Day, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service’s Watch UR BAC and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration want to remind drivers that buzzed driving is drunken driving.
The economy is reopening. Consumer spending increased by almost 18% last month, sending the stock market soaring. That’s the good news. The bad news is that with no COVID-19 vaccine or cure on the horizon, consumers have not fully resumed their prepandemic activities, and they might not do s…
China is determined to block investigations of where COVID-19 came from. But worse, influential American scientists are going along with censoring any inquiry. They’re declaring their “solidarity with the scientists and health professionals of China.”
No decent person can support George Floyd’s mistreatment, or the mistreatment of anyone else, at the hands of police officers with the sworn duty to uphold the law. The Minneapolis authorities moved quickly, and Derek Chauvin was fired from the Minneapolis police department, placed under arr…
In the South, the only thing you can say that’s considered bigger fightin’ words than, “Why didn’t you put beans in your chili?” is to speak ill of dry rub on ribs.
If you’ve decided to invest in a swimming pool this year, you’re not alone. Rising temperatures combined with social distancing concerns have likely contributed to the 50% increase (over 435,000 in 2020 compared to 290,000 in 2019) in those searching for pool contractors on bbb.org.
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With COVID-19 still a threat, parents may be tempted to leave a child in the vehicle while they run into the store. Leaving a child in a vehicle, which can quickly heat up, is always a dangerous idea — even if it is for a very short time.
Apparently, the United States now has a Lobster King. This great title was bestowed upon the Trump administration’s trade adviser, Peter Navarro, when the president recently threatened to impose tariffs on European Union cars if the bloc does not drop its tariff on American lobsters. Needles…
Three months ago, America was told to trust public health experts. Never again. Most of them have revealed themselves to be left-wing ideologues cloaked in the mantle of science. On their advice, states slammed their economies shut, put 40 million people out of work, sent school kids home an…
While it might not be popular to say in the wake of the recent social disorder, the true plight of black people has little or nothing to do with the police or what has been called “systemic racism.” Instead, we need to look at the responsibilities of those running our big cities.
