The Devil went Down to Texas . . .

Renae Brumbaugh Green   Parenting is hard.   It’s peel-an-apple-with-a-butter-knife hard.   Climb-Mount-Everest-in-your-prom-shoes hard.   Lose-twenty-pounds-in-December hard.

America Is Not a Safe Space

Rich Lowry   Pity the anti-Trump protesters thronging the streets of American cities.

Bill filers jump to early start as legislative session nears

Ed Sterling   Just a few of Texas’ 31 Senate members and 150 House members filed a total of 523 pieces of legislation on Nov. 14, the first day lawmakers could submit legislation for the coming session.

An open letter at Thanksgiving

Lynette Sowell   This is not a new column, but I thought worth sharing again. So many times we complain about things that aren’t that important. We complain instead of making things better. This is a good week to take a step back and remember what’s really important.

Thanksgiving list

Renae Brumbaugh Green   How can Thanksgiving be here already? Honestly. I’m not prepared. I haven’t even bought a turkey yet. I haven’t planned a menu, or thought about who will bring what to our family dinner.   And I haven’t made a “thankful” list, either. Yes, I know.

President Obama’s Stinging Rebuke

Rich Lowry   In the course of about six hours, what was supposed to be a Republican existential crisis turned into a Republican wave.   What was supposed to be a victory of the coalition of the ascendant became a dispiriting rout of the coalition that didn’t show up.

Trump victory turns eyes to possible cabinet nominees

Ed Sterling   Republican Donald J. Trump, on his way to winning the presidential election on Nov. 8, won the vote in Texas with 4,651,955 votes, or 52.39 percent of the 8,878,152 votes cast.   Some 2,842,553 votes, or 43 percent, were cast by Texans for former U.S.

First time for everything

Lynette Sowell   So there I was one morning, driving along, minding my own business...And then, I saw a blackand- white pull out of the parking lot I’d just passed on North First Street.   On went the flashing blue lights. Yep, they were after me.

Soap Box Derby

Renae Brumbaugh Green   I voted early. I’m glad I did, because from everything I saw, the lines on Tuesday were horrendous. And I don’t like waiting in line.

The Democrats Asked for This

Rich Lowry   Before Democrats burn James Comey in effigy, they should think about how the FBI director came to have an outsized influence in the election in the first place.   It’s not something Comey sought or welcomed.