Commentary & Opinion

Commentary & Opinion

The Trump indictments: defending the Indefensible

By David Almaraz | June 16, 2023

Local Republican leaders’ response is expected and laughable

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American-made mass shootings, again and again

By Rev. T. Carlos Anderson and Rev. James C. Harrington | June 16, 2023

Adding a moral dimension to gun violence

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The 10 Cs – Madison or Moses: ‘When fascism comes to America, it will be  wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross’

By David Almaraz | May 13, 2023

A copy of the secular Bill of Rights should be  displayed in every public schoolroom

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Texas House to vote Monday on Paxton Protection Act (HB-5010)

By Rev. James C. Harrington | April 28, 2023

No one should be above the law, no matter how much Paxton wants to be

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Local Republican Party shocked that criminal defendant Trump finally being held accountable by a duly empaneled New York Grand Jury for 34 felonies 

By David Almaraz | April 12, 2023

The gathering storm: will we have the GED scholar, Lauren Boebert, introducing a bill to make thinking illegal?

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Hey, Cornyn and Cruz: you can’t powder over history’s warts

By Rev. James C. Harrington | March 1, 2023

Trying to rewrite the history of the Texas Rangers is offensive – they should stop trying.

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First, they came for the gays then they came for me, but there was no one left to defend my arguments

By David Almaraz | February 28, 2023

Today’s Republican party is turning more far-right and white nationalistic daily. Lost is the art of compromise.

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Unbelievable in so many respects! Home in Regency has 20 junk cars in its side yard, six in the driveway, old toilet on the pool side of the house

By Maria Eugenia Guerra | January 25, 2023

Tires, auto parts, patches of oil; pool and hot tub water the color of pond scum – Dengue heaven!

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Council quashes Mayor’s motion to re-open  application period for City Manager’s position

By Maria Eugenia Guerra | January 16, 2023

Jan. 5 meeting – a lesson in transparency’s double edge: the kind rooted in honesty and the kind in the mayor’s ruse to re-open the field to local applicants

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Abbot and Paxton: punishing the innkeeper in Bethlehem

By LareDOS Staff | December 23, 2022

Abbott’s cynical spending of $14 million Texas tax dollars to inhumanely physically “relocate” some 12,000 asylum seekers was political theatrics, not benevolence