Opinion

Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) recently declared that at one time, she had defaulted on her student loans. Being a Democrat she quite naturally saw those loans as racist and noted that Blacks and Hispanics default on their loans five times as much as white people. The solution, she feels, is to go after debt collectors for making phone calls to debtors, and for the government to forgive all those racist loans imposed on students who don't really realize what they are doing when they sign loan documents.

Revelation 3:14-17, (Jesus speaking to John), “And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write: These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of the creation of God. I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm (indifferent) and neither cold not hot, I will spit you out of my mouth. You say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing.’ But you do not know that you are wretched, miserable , pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.”

Warmer temperatures over the weekend and continuing this week melted most of the snow from the state’s roadways and roofs. But Texans are still dealing with broken pipes that flooded homes and businesses, damaged municipal water systems, and continued power outages in scattered areas, mainly in East and Central Texas.