Opinion

Fulton County Judge Robert McBurney has released a small portion of the conclusions reached by the special grand jury investigating allegations made concerning possible election fraud in the last presidential election. Some 75 people were called as witnesses in the probe. These witnesses included election workers, government officials, technical experts, candidate representatives, and everyday citizens. The portion of the report released basically presented two conclusions. There had been no widespread fraud in Georgia capable of changing the election’s outcome, and there was a distinct possibility that some of the grand jury’s witnesses had lied under oath. The former conclusion, however, went a long way toward making it unlikely the public would accept their latter surmise.

So some of our elected officials in the Texas Legislature would like to give Texans the opportunity to vote in November on whether or not sports gambling should be legalized in the Lone Star State.

One of my brothers is a master of irony. After the president had finished his talk, he (John) called me to opine (tongue in cheek) that we’d just heard the best speech since the Gettysburg Address. I responded, “Yes, she did rather well, didn’t she.” Sarah Huckabee had, in fact, given the best Republican response I could remember ever hearing. Biden’s speech, however, had been a disaster. He’d tried to make it sound like the economy was chugging along fine (even as about every Internet company had just finished announcing layoffs totaling many thousands). Even Disney was dumping tons of workers. He touted the low unemployment rate and modest reduction in the rate of inflation. The unemployment figures, however, result from people receiving government benefits and no longer looking for work. The number of employed workers (the real measure of the economy) is down millions from what it was under Trump.