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After a decade as Chair of the Tom Green County Republican Party I have resigned. Under State law and Party rules the Executive Committee of the Party selected my friend Bruce Burkett to finish my term.

The House of Representatives just passed a bill that will eventually lead to registration of your old Red Ryder BB gun.

When I started writing this column twenty-odd years ago, I wanted to call it The Outhouse. My wife objected on the grounds that I was an idiot, which was a difficult argument to refute.

During the Great Texas Snowpocalypse of February 2021, I did two things I’ve never done before. One of those was shoveling snow.

Tom Green County Judge Steve Floyd should consider rescinding the Covid emergency here, too. Covid-19 hospitalizations and new infections have dwindled to a trickle here where only 14 new cases were added to the rolls on Friday, Feb. 26. Only 16 are hospitalized, down from over a 100 hospitalizations during the peak of the pandemic just months ago.

he last time my mother threw anything away on purpose was probably sometime during the Truman administration. Not that she was a hoarder. She didn’t save things because of an irrational compulsion to collect detritus.

OPINION — Regardless of whether you voted for Joe Biden, you have to admit no president, in the history of our country, has kept as many campaign promises as quickly after being sworn in to the office. He is, without question, a man of his word. Biden promised to devastate the American economy as soon as possible, and during his first three days he signed thirty (30) executive orders, which did just that. You gotta hand it to him. Seriously, I think one of the executive orders was that you gotta hand it to him.

OPINION — With Joe Biden’s inauguration, readers have been asking me what I think will happen during this new administration, and how it will affect hunting, fishing, the environment, the economy, religion, and my column. People are understandably concerned about their future, especially in light of the disasters of the past year. Plus, according to the Texas Dept. of Agriculture, lizards the size of dogs are invading Texas in droves.

OPINION — Here’s a little quiz for you: What do Ricky Gervais, Joanna Lumley, Peter Egan, Ed Sheeran, Dame Judi Dench, and Piers Morgan have in common? I mean besides the fact they’re all people you’ve never heard of. Except for Ricky Gervais and Piers Morgan. You’ve heard of them, because they’ve appeared in this column, although they probably weren’t happy about it.

Woke is a political term that originated in the United States, and it refers to a perceived awareness of issues that concern social justice and racial justice.

OPINION — In my 22 years of active duty service in the US Army, I learned many lessons in leadership. I would be happy to share them with you, as they are enshrined on the 3×5 cards I carry. Having served in combat, my first combat tour was 30 years ago in Operation Desert Shield/Storm. It became very apparent that when bullets begin to fly, it is the resilient, resolved, and focused commander that inspires victory. I have always stated, “no one follows a Frantic Fannie into combat.”

The president knew the level of violence he incited in people and he simply didn't care.