The right thing

By Renae Brumbaugh   Writing a weekly column has its challenges, just in case you were wondering. Especially when you’ve been doing it for seven years. Everything worth writing about has pretty much been written about. I asked some reliable helpers—my students—for advice about a writing topic.

Rove Is Right

By Rich Lowry   It was inevitable that attacks on Hillary Clinton would be deemed sexist. We now know that they will be called ageist, too.

Soldiering on

By Lynette Sowell   I see you sitting over there in the corner, drinking your morning coffee and waiting for your breakfast to arrive at the table. You’re old, old as my dad, or maybe a little older. Since when do soldiers get old? But, you do.

Four tornadoes enough introduction for me

By Willis Webb   An area of Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri is unofficially known as Tornado Alley. They should’ve added Texas as far as I’m concerned but I’m okay if I never meet another twister. One of nature’s most suddenly appearing and destructive forces is the tornado.

Hope for the best

By Renae Brumbaugh   My phone lit up with a text message. “Call when you can.” Nothing unusual about the message; it was the sender that got me. An old friend, who I talk to only rarely. Immediately, my mind went to the worst possible place it could go. She has bad news, I thought. Who died?

The Benghazi deniers

By Rich Lowry   At last we have a Benghazi scandal that Democrats are willing to acknowledge -- House Speaker John Boehner’s decision to form a select committee to investigate the administration’s handling of the 2012 terror attack in Libya.

My, but that’s some green grass

By Lynette Sowell   Now that spring has officially sprung in Texas, it will be nice and green for a few more weeks. Well, we can hope, anyway! Everyone’s getting their lawns and gardens in order and sometimes I feela little envious of all that green, as I drive past homes. You know the ones I mean.

Point man carried a machete

By Willis Webb   Young people of high school and college age often work summer jobs. There are, of course, a number of reasons why they do so but, principally, it is to earn enough money to go to school the other nine months of the year.

Slow Processor

By Renae Brumbaugh   I’m not sure my brain functionality is conducive to today’s society. I’m smart. I’m just a slow processor. Oh, I’m quick on my feet when I need to be. But lately, I feel like I’m living every minute of every day in crisis mode. I mean, think about it.

A hero for the ages

By Rich Lowry   Jeremiah Denton, the Vietnam War POW who died in March at age 89, uttered one of the great statements of defiance in American history. In 1965, he was shot down in his A-6 during a bombing run over North Vietnam.