Texas lawmakers will adjourn the regular session on Monday — Memorial Day — but Gov. Greg Abbott has already indicated he will call a special session in the fall to grapple with redistricting after detailed census results are finally released.
A few days ago while watching the evening news I kept hearing the news anchor teasing me that two airplanes had collided and that the details would be forthcoming at some later point during the newscast. After three teases and three breaks, the news finally did come up, but it wasn’t newsworthy at all. It seems that a parked Southwest Airlines plane backed up to leave the gate and clipped another parked airliner with the tip of its wing. Somehow that fender bender had become worthy of national news coverage. The report illustrates the fact that network news has a bias towards sensationalism, and that it will manufacture that sensationalism if it doesn’t occur naturally.
John 14:6, Jesus said to Thomas, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
The number of traffic accidents decreased in 2020, but the number of Texans killed while not wearing a seat belt increased by 16%, according to the Texas Department of Transportation.
Shortly after America became a nation, North American pirates began capturing our merchant ships and holding our crews for ransom. This posed a problem since the colonies had never built a fleet of ocean-going war ships. We had nothing with which to fight back. The president, therefore, called on Congress to raise money and build a naval fleet. You may have heard about the results in the Marine Hymn. It goes something like: “From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli...” The ships were built, and the Marines came into existence to unload a can of whoop-@$$ on the Barbary Pirates. Somewhere about that time the slogan became a part of our lore; “Millions for defense, but not one cent in tribute.”
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