Opinion

Matthew 5:13 (Jesus speaking), “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot by men.”

If history is an indicator, Texas voters will likely go to the polls on Nov. 2 in underwhelming numbers to decide the fate of eight proposed amendments to the state’s constitution. With no statewide races on the ballot, and a scattering of local elections for city council and school board, turnout typically is low. Nevertheless, early voting is now underway and continues until Oct. 29.

Several months ago I noticed that container ships were stacking up in the harbor outside of Los Angeles. The administration did nothing about it then. Now, however, less than two months before Christmas, President Joe Biden has decreed that the union will work 24 hours a day to unload the 60 ships that are waiting there (plus the additional number that will arrive next week). He has no idea, however, where workers will put the contents of those thousands of containers, since the warehouse space is over 99 percent full already. Nor has he come up with a plan that will give truckers what they need to haul away the booty. It looks like some soldiers will have to take a crash course in truck driving in order to get a few toys into stores before Christmas. Some retailers have already leased ships in an attempt to bypass the bottleneck.